L1.2- DIGITAL MEDICINE and HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY

Digital Medicine

describes a field, concerned with the use of technologies as tools for measurement, and intervention in the service of human health

Digital Medicine

Focusing on using technology in a scientifically validated and clinically meaningful way to enhance healthcare delivery

Digital Medicine/Biomedicine

Encapsulates both broad professional expertise and responsibilities concerning the use of these digital tools

Digital Medicine/Biomedicine

Focuses on evidence generation technologies

Healthcare Information Technology (HIT)

Refers to any IT tools or software designed to boost hospital and administrative productivity, give new insights into medicines and treatments, or improve the overall quality of care provided.

Healthcare Information Technology (HIT)

Refers to the electronic systems that are being employed in the health care setting for professional use.

Administrative

Surgery

Drug Development

Fitness

Diagnostic and Error Reduction

Mental Health

Types of Healthcare Information Technology (6)

Administrative

Types of Healthcare Information Technology

– Software, tools, and applications to handle growing workloads in administrative hospitals

Surgery

Types of Healthcare Information Technology

– Robots assisting from minor non-invasive to open heart surgery

Drug Development

Types of Healthcare Information Technology

– Help speed up time-consuming tasks like pinpointing certain chemical combinations that might help create the optimal drug

Fitness

Types of Healthcare Information Technology

– Becoming a larger focus of the health tech system

Diagnostic and Error Reduction

Types of Healthcare Information Technology

– Health tech companies have helped detect deadly diseases like cancer earlier and with greater accuracy than relying on humans alone

Mental Health

Types of Healthcare Information Technology

– Virtual reality is seen as a bright light in the fight against depression, PTSD and even Alzheimer's

Imaging Informatics

Is the collective name given to the field of work and combination of technologies that provide the features of a paperless and paper lite department

Imaging Informatics

Specializes with the electronic acquisition, storage, and distribution of the text and image data produced and utilized within a diagnostics of department such as Radiology, Pathology, Cardiology, etc. for the wider provision of care and benefit to patients.

Imaging Informatics

A sub-specialty of health informatics, which is itself defined as the knowledge, skills, and tools which enable information to be collected, managed, used, and shared to support the delivery of the healthcare and promote health

Early to mid-2000s

In what year…

Hospitals began adding Radiology Information Systems and integrating them into more flexible Hospital Information system (HIS) using modern technologies

Early to mid-2000s

In what year…

The Philippine Heart Center and other institutions moved toward internet-based hospital information systems, that is a key step toward linking imaging data with broader clinical records

Early to mid-2000s

In what year…

Shift toward Integrated Digital Systems

Radiology Information Systems

Hospital Information system (HIS)

In Early to mid-2000s…

Hospitals began adding ____ and integrating them into more flexible ___ using modern technologies

Philippine Heart Center

In Early to mid-2000s…

The ___ and other institutions moved toward internet-based hospital information systems, that is a key step toward linking imaging data with broader clinical records

Mid-2010s

In what year…

More hospitals in the Philippines were implementing digital Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) rather than film, enabling electronic storage, retrieval, and viewing of medical imaging

Mid-2010s

Digital PACS Adaptation

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)

In Mid-2010s…

More hospitals in the Philippines were implementing digital ___ rather than film, enabling electronic storage, retrieval, and viewing of medical imaging

Late 2010s

In what year…

Teleradiology in the Philippines started informally as a practical response to the lack of radiologists in provincial hospitals and later evolved into a formal digital service as technology, policy, and necessity aligned.

Late 2010s

In what year…

Vendors and Technology providers such as Fujifilm, Agfa Healthcare, GE Healthcare, etc. began offering systems designed for remote diagnostics and multi-site collaborations

Teleradiology

In Late 2010s…

___in the Philippines started informally as a practical response to the lack of radiologists in provincial hospitals and later evolved into a formal digital service as technology, policy, and necessity aligned

Fujifilm, Agfa Healthcare, GE Healthcare

In Late 2010s…

Vendors and Technology providers such as ___, ____, ___, etc. began offering systems designed for remote diagnostics and multi-site collaborations

Late 2010s

Teleradiology Emergence

2019

Implementation of Universal Health Care Act and Digital Health Memorandum

2019

In what year…

The Universal Health Care (UHC) Act (R. A. No. 11223) was implemented, mandating improved healthcare access and promoting the use of telemedicine and interoperable information systems

Universal Health Care (UHC) Act (R. A. No. 11223)

In 2019…

The ____ was implemented, mandating improved healthcare access and promoting the use of telemedicine and interoperable information systems

Universal Health Care (UHC) Act (R. A. No. 11223)

This law encourages hospitals to adapt digital imaging and shared information platforms

2020s

In what year…

The medical imaging and image management markets began to expand significantly

2020 and 2022

A nationwide pilot program under the Philippine Primary Care Studies (PPCS) implemented two different EHR systems across urban, rural, and remote primary care settings between ___ and ____. These were part of broader national digital health strategies aligned with UHC goals

2020s

Expansion of Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Medical Imaging Informatics

Subfield of Imaging Informatics

Medical Imaging Informatics

The rapidly evolving field that combines biomedical informatics and imaging, developing and adapting core methods in informatics to improve the usage and application of imaging in healthcare

Medical Imaging Informatics

Discipline that stands at the intersection of biomedical informatics and imaging, bridging the two areas to further our comprehension of disease processes through the unique lens of imaging; and from this understanding, improve clinical care.

IMAGING INFORMATICS

Scope: Broad

Image Types: Medical, Biological, research

Main Users: Scientist, Researchers, Clinicians

Healthcare Focus: Not always

MEDICAL IMAGING INFORMATICS

Scope: Narrow

Image Types: Medical Only

Main Users: Radiologist, RTs, Clinicians

Healthcare Focus: Always