LEC HIS - LESSON 4

BOOK BASED: HEALTH INFORMATICS

Health Informatics

Health Informatics

It talks about Health Information Management and Health Information Technology

Overarching Issue

The transition from manual to a more advance health information system is the _______ that sits between providers of healthcare, managers, policy makers, researchers and patients alike.

Health Information Technology

The area of IT involving the design, development, creation, use, and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry. Automated and interoperable healthcare information system.

Electronic Health Record

The central component of health IT infrastructure.

A person’s official digital health record and is shared among multiple healthcare providers and agencies.

What is Electronic Health Record?

Health Information Exchange and Personal Health Record

Key Elements of Health IT Infrastructure

HITECH ACT in 2009

Implementations of EHR systems have increased dramatically in the past few years since the inception of the ________, which introduced the EHR meaningful use program.

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ; and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)

Created the criteria for use of EHR systems.

MACRA

A law passed by Congress in 2015 called _____?

Medicare Access and CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Plan)

MACRA name.

Picture Archiving Communication Systems (PACS) and Vendor Neutral Archives (VNAs)

The two widely used types of Health IT that help healthcare professionals store and manage patient’s medical images.

Radiology Departments

In the past it is the primary repositories of Medical Images.

Health Information Ecosystem

Health interoperability ecosystem as a composition of individuals, systems and processes that want to share, exchange, and access all forms of health information, including discrete narrative and multimedia.

Integrated and Efficient Patient Care

Cloud Technology offers a single access point for patient information, and this allow multiple doctors to review lab results or notes in patients.

Potential Risks to Personal Information

The strength of cloud technology is also the very same characteristics that makes it vulnerable to data breaches.

Better Management Data

The accumulation of electronic health records will allow more meaningful data mining that can better assess the health of the general public.

Cloud Set-up Seems Cumbersome

The transition from a traditional to an automated system might be difficult for some members of healthcare organizations, particularly for smaller or older practices that may no be familiar with cloud technology.

Error Reduction

The most important potential benefit of computerized information processing is improvement and accuracy.

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Some studies have found that about ___ % of clinicians’ decisions are based on laboratory results.

Cost Justification

Having compiled on analysis of the specific benefits a computer system will provide tot he laboratory, one must then show how these benefits will justify purchase and ongoing maintenance of such as system.

1980

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

Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS)

Since then, significant milestones in health informatics have also occurred over the years, one of which is the __________.

General Public License (GPL)

CHITS, a Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP-based systems released under the _________.

Stockholm Challenge

CHITS was named finalist at the _____ 2006.

Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

It is developed primarily designed for use in Philippine Health Centers in disadvantaged areas.

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EMR is currently utilized in ____government health facilities.

4 to 5 minutes

How many minutes does it take before when it is manually done in medical field. Effect of EMR. Now can be executed within a couple of seconds.