WGU D190 Introduction to Healthcare ISYSTEMS
Task 3 Assured Success
D190 – Introduction to Healthcare IT Systems
Task 3 – Databases in a Healthcare Settings
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A1: Duplicate Patients
Ian Clarkson
Sean Paterson
Hannah Fraser
A2: Errors in the data
Some of these errors include:
A patient like Max Avery name is wrongly spelled.
Some of the patient’s name, such as David McGrath is repetitively written.
Social security has missing figures which have been covered by letter X.
B1: Required elements of the data dictionary.
From the data dictionary provided above, valid values, access restrictions, and definition
of data are some of the three essential missing elements which deserve to be included in this
document.
B2: Elements of interoperability of data
Interoperability standards are much essential when it comes to issues with data in a
healthcare facility. It permits enables disparate information technology systems to share data
even if they were built by diverse merchants on dissimilar infrastructures. For this case, the data
dictionary provided above contains several elements such as data source to meet the
interoperability. Data source makes it easier to access the data from EHR that is obligatory to fill
the databases.
However, the dictionary also is required to meet other missing elements such as valid
values, access restrictions, and data definition for it to meet the interoperability standards fully.
Valid values ensure trust, neatness, and helpfulness of data in a data dictionary always. It