OVERVIEW OF HEALTH INFORMATICS

Information

The primary product of the clinical laboratory

Rouse (2016)

According to him, the area of IT involving the design, development, creation, use and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry and that automated and interoperable information systems are expected to. Prove medical care, lower cost, increase efficiency, reduce error and improving patient satisfaction.

Kushniruk and Borychi (2017)

According to them, privacy and security during transmission is very important.

• It is promised to modernize and streamline healthcare and to connect different users and stakeholder in the e-health market.

Electronic Health Record (EHS) and Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)

Types of Health Information Technology

Electronic Health Record (EHR)

• central component of the health IT infrastructure

• Person’s official digital health record and is stored among multiple healthcare providers and agencies

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)

• two widely used types of health IT

• Heals healthcare professionals store and manage patients’s medical images

• Radiology, cardiology, and neurology department usually utilize this kind of health IT

Health Interoperability Ecosystems

Composition of individual, systems, and processes that want to store exchange and access all forms of health information

Cloud Technology

Allows healthcare organization to store, manage and access health data remotely rather than relying on on-site servers and infrastructure

1980S

Health Informatics had been loosely practiced in the Philippines as early as this.

Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS)

An electronic medical record primarily designed for use in the PH health centers in disadvantaged areas