Importance of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and CDS Standards in CDS Adoption

Discussion Thread: Community Systems, Decision Support, Public Health
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Discussion Thread: Community Systems, Decision Support, Public Health
The outcome of treating patients is either life or death. The medical profession is the most critical career globally since it deals with people's lives (Zaman et al., 2023). In this case, medical professionals need to acquire much knowledge during their careers to minimize the possibilities of losses. Most importantly, the adoption of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) has significantly assisted the medical field in improving healthcare quality by adopting the best healthcare practices. This paper shall discuss decision support, community systems, and public health.
Importance of Health Information Exchanges (HIE) and CDS Standards in CDS Adoption
CDS standards enhance positive healthcare outcomes, improve patients' care, increase health workers' efficiency, and assist health workers in avoiding possible mistakes. Notably, CDS standards provide requirements regarding the knowledge that a professional health worker needs to improve a patient's well-being and health outcome (Bryant et al., 2019). In addition, these standards ensure that caregivers have the most current information from the prevailing medication innovations to improve patient care. CDS standards ensure that medical experts acquire knowledge throughout their practice, enhancing efficiency. Lastly, the CDS standards provide clear medical operations guidelines that enable healthcare workers to avoid probable mistakes. Overall, CDS standards are essential in the adoption of CDS.
HIE enables accessibility, connectivity, configuration, and migration of medical information. Foremost, medical professionals can access information directly from other health experts without directly engaging the patient (Bryant et al., 2019). Health organizations can connect and securely share patients' information. The health experts can track the patients' recovery process if transferred from one healthcare to another through system configuration. In case of system failure, healthcare can migrate the information successfully to another system to maintain the previous records, unlike the manual process risks a permanent loss of information. To sum up, HIE is crucial in...