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February 2021 Seminar Reflection

Caroline E. White

Department of Health Care Informatics, University of San Diego

HCIN 548

Professor O’Hagan

February 18, 2021

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February 2021 Seminar Reflection

To graduate from the University of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing, there are six

Core Competency requirements that I will need to fulfill: Health Science Knowledge and Skills,

Leadership and Systems Management, System Design and Management, Data and Knowledge

Management, Quality and Regulatory, and Social Justice and Community Activism. To fulfill

each Core Competency, three artifacts will be needed as evidence for fulfilling the requirement.

Artifact examples are assignments, projects, or class presentations that are relevant to the

competency topic. In addition to three artifacts, I will need to explain in a reflection why each

artifact meets the corresponding Core Competency requirement. During my first semester in the

Health Care Informatics program, I completed a few assignments and projects that I plan to use

as artifacts.

For the Health Science Knowledge and Skills Core Competency, I plan to use my

business proposal paper and presentation from HCIN 541, in which I needed to propose a

solution to an existing problem in the health care industry. I proposed a made-up Credentialing

company called QualifyMe that would offer Credentialing services to hospitals during crisis

events like nursing strikes, outbreaks, and natural disasters when temporary clinicians are needed

quickly and by the masses. The business would solve the problem of vetting nurses quickly and

accurately using a mobile app for clinicians to upload their credentials, automation, and artificial

intelligence methods such as image and text recognition.

As another artifact for the Health Science Knowledge and Skills Core Competency, I plan

to use my HCIN 552 paper and presentation on a suggested clinical decision support (CDS) rule.

I proposed a revamped version of the classic Drug-Drug Interaction (DDI) CDS rule, which

warns providers when they attempt to ePrescribe a drug that interacts with another drug that a
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patient is taking. To curb provider alert fatigue, my version of the DDI rule would employ

evidence-based user interface recommendations to minimize cognitive load and ensure the right

amount of information is displayed most effectively. The DDI CDS technology would also

examine the reasons providers override drug-drug interaction alerts using machine learning to

learn when an alert might be overkill. It would also allow providers to turn off alerts to certain

common, mild drug-drug interactions.