Informational technology has created a pool of opportunities for improving healthcare and its accessibility. Innovative tools have allowed creating Medicare and Medicaid, also known as the Promoting Interoperability Programs (PMPs). With their emergence, the meaning of healthcare programs has shifted from the original one of providing citizens with health management options to the creation of a unified framework of accessible health insurance. In addition, the management of patients’ personal data has become more effective and less susceptible to the risks of the digital environment.
It appears that the further promotion of the electronic system and the PMPs will allow an increase in the accessibility of care, which is an admittedly important change. Namely, with the use of PMPs, electronic systems will become easier to manage and access, which will provide a significant advantage for numerous patients, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Moreover, PMPs simplify the process of managing patients’ data, which will lead to fewer cases of data loss, confusion, or mismanagement since clinical data will be easier to capture.
I feel that, in the future, the PMP framework will create even more opportunities for people to use healthcare services and address their needs accordingly. Moreover, I presume that further improvement in the current PMP system will allow handling some of the common public health issues more effectively (Shi et al., 2020). For example, the financial options that healthcare services will receive may lead to the creation of programs for reaching out to patients from disadvantaged areas and reinforce the patient-nurse dialogue, thus increasing health literacy.
In addition, envisioning myself as a health professional, I believe that the PMP system will increase preparedness among nurses. Namely, the PMP framework will increase the access to patient’s health data to healthcare providers, leading to better cross-disciplinary collaboration and a more detailed, comprehensive assessment of key factors affecting a patient’s well-being. As a result, a healthcare provider will be able to evaluate a specific health situation and identify the available solutions better, offering improved health services.
Reference
Shi, Y., Amill-Rosario, A., Rudin, R. S., Fischer, S. H., Shekelle, P., Scanlon, D., & Damberg, C. L. (2020). Health information technology for ambulatory care in health systems. The American Journal of Managed Care, 26(1), 32-38.