Reference no: EM133748488

Problem: Overcoming Provider Resistance to Health IT Adoption

I. Identify a significant barrier to adoption of healthcare information technology. Discuss why you believe it to be significant and include your recommendation how to reduce/eliminate it.

II. Open Notes provides physician notes to be available through the patient portal. Pros and cons regarding Open Notes have been offered by both patients and providers. Provide your opinions as to how you would feel about Open Notes as a patient and as a caregiver. Be sure to justify your opinions.

III. Present your position on both advantages and disadvantages/concerns of a national patient identifier. How would you recommend the disadvantages/concerns be addressed?

IV. Provide your perspective on the potential of Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence to have an impact on patient care. Provide at least two justifications for your perspective as well as one potential limitation.

V. Telemedicine utilization has experienced a pronounced increase since the presentation of COVID-19. Discuss how you believe telemedicine utilization will be impacted as COVID-19 is controlled. Be sure to substantiate your beliefs.

VI. A criticism of healthcare has been directed at the wide variability of quality and cost of care by geographic region of the United States. Describe how you believe EBM can have a positive impact on such variability. Be sure to justify your opinions.

VII. Describe your thoughts on the potential benefits and challenges of the increasing use of genomics in healthcare. Substantiate your opinions.

VIII. Patient information concerning substance abuse and behavioral health normally carries an increased level of privacy and security. Provide your perspective on access to such information when the patient is unable to grant confirmed consent, but its use could be valuable to patient care, e.g. for an unconscious ED patient. Provide rationale for your perspective.