University of South Florida Health Information DiscussionSchool

University of South Florida

Question Description

Chapter 3 Overview

Findings from the study conducted (discussed in this chapter) suggested that:

• Higher educated women tended to use print health or news media, broadcast media, health policy organizations and organized events 2.0 to 2.4 times more than less educated women (high school education or less) – these findings were, however, not statistically significant
• Compared to unemployed women, working females had greater odds (1.2 – 2.4) of accessing health information via the Internet and other computing resources
• Both groups primarily used print & news media, broadcast media and computer-based resources as an order of overall resource preference

Chapter 4 Overview

• It’s important to increase awareness of the organization to re-conceptualize its business and services processes, as well as the need to adopt a new corporate culture of data sharing
• Requires the cooperating organizations to be involved in the ongoing development of standards
• Applications of the HMIS enterprise software will, sooner or later, allow the individual organizations to go beyond their limitations

Required Textbooks: 1. Tan, J. (2010). Adaptive health information systems (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett ISBN: 978-0-7637-5691-8

Discussion 1 –

Read Chapter 3 of our text and post a summary discussing how the recent improvement in hardware and software has changed and improved healthcare delivery in the US.

• To avoid point loss, carefully follow all assignment instructions and rubric guidelines
• Complete your original post of 200 words before 11:59 p.m. Thursday, EST
• Provide properly formatted citations/references for all source material
• Do not use any quoted or copied material.

Discussion 2 –

Among the emerging trends in regards to consumer health information-seeking are sites such as www.relayforlife.org, www.healthcareblog.com, and even Twitter. In your post, please discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these kinds of trendsas well as the challenges they pose to both healthcare providers and consumers.

• To avoid point loss, carefully follow all assignment instructions and rubric guidelines
• Complete your original post of 200 words before 11:59 p.m. Thursday, EST
• Provide properly formatted citations/references for all source material
• Do not use any quoted or copied material.