Health Information Systems
What are the key trends that support the implementation of either CHIN or RHINO in today’s healthcare organizations?
Community Health Information Network (CHIN) provides a technology kind of information to help a community 
attain and maintain its optimal health (Balgrosky, 2015). The major trend used by the CHIN to ensure its implementation is that the services are available to all stakeholders and it allows the competitors to collaborate and share information. Regional Health Information Organization is able to bring health stakeholders from specific geographical areas and manage the health information exchange in their region to improve the health status of the community.
Arguments that the benefits outweigh the challenges when transiting from CHIN TO RHINO.
When transiting from CHIN to RHINO, you realize that the role of community stakeholders was minimized where only the competitors were left at the table. However, the benefits are numerous compared to the challenges. RHINO is able to cater for the general quality and cost saving as an objective.
Suggest a significant advantage to integrating COPE and CDSS as a part of an organization’s EHR. Provide support
CDSS is software designed to directly support clinical decision making while COPE is any system in which clinicians directly enter medication orders into a computer (Health information national trend survey, 2014). Integration of these two aspects will basically improve the quality of services provided, for instance, CDSS is always paired with COPE where it will suggest the default values for drug doses, routes of administration and may provide drug safety services such as checking if a drug may have any kind of allergy and warn the clients in prior.
Whether paper health records or electronic database systems are more efficient and the advantages and disadvantages of using electronic medical records.
Some research regard paper health records as more efficient compared to electronic data base systems. However, the two supports different task and each has its own advantage. For example when surgical patients were compared, diagnostic coding on the paper based patient records produced minor qualitative advantages while the Electronic Databased Systems produced a good results of both qualitative and quantitative coding. Advantages of electronic database systems include; Accuracy, they are up to date and provide complete information about the patients. Disadvantages of Electronic database systems also include; inadequate privacy protection, medical records synchronization and high startup cost.
References;
- Health Information National Trends Survey,. (2014). Developing an electronic health information system for high quality cancer care.
- Balgrosky, J. A. (2015). Essentials of health information system and summary.