Health Information Technology

The development of patient management systems continues to revolutionize the field of healthcare, specifically in the areas of treatment plans, content and records management systems, and predictive analytics. These areas are all making healthcare information and knowledge management a critical success factor in creating effective healthcare information systems globally (Epstein, Fiscella, Lesser, Stange, 2010). Implicit in the areas of records management and predictive analytics is also the need for more effectively managing standardized terminologies that are critical to document patient care. The greater the depth of insight that healthcare information systems can deliver, including the acuity of analysis and availability of predictive analytics to measure the progress of treatment plans, the greater the need for an agile, flexible taxonomy of standardized methodologies as well (Schmitt, 2002). The intent of this analysis is to evaluate how taxonomies can be used for defining and managing standardized terminologies used for...
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