4: OVERVIEW OF HEALTH INFORMATICS Flashcards
• Application of both tech and system in the healthcare system
HEALTH INFORMATICS
• Application of both tech and system in the healthcare system
HEALTH INFORMATICS
• Use of HIS reduces cost and increase quality of healthcare
• Combination of elements in HIS improves the provision of quality, effective and efficient services
• Huge amount of routine data in health care became perplexing to process and analyze.
• Making sense of the large amount of data while ensuring that the processes are valid and secure is a challenge for health informatics
HEALTH INFORMATICS
__________ is the area of IT involving the design, development, creation, use, and maintenance of information systems for the health care industry
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HIT)
• Automated and interoperable health care information systems are expected to improve medical care, lower costs, increase efficiency, reduce error, and improve patient satisfaction while also optimizing reimbursement of ambulatory and in-patient health care providers
• To provide innovation to health care delivery and connection among users and stakeholders in the e-health market.
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HIT)
HEALTH CARE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
• Electronic Health Record (EHR)
• Personal Health Record (PHR)
• Health Information Exchange (HIE)
help manage and store patient’s medical images
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) and Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA)
a composition of individuals, systems, and processes that share, exchange, and access all forms of health information, including discrete, narrative, and multimedia.
HEALTH INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM (HEALTH
INTEROPERABILITY ECOSYSTEM)
• is an electronic medical record (EMR) utilized by 111 government facilities. CHITS was developed through the collaboration of the Information and Communication Technology community and health workers, primarily designed for use in the Philippine health centers in disadvantages areas.
COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION TRACKING SYSTEM (CHITS)
• Focuses on the tools
HEALTH INFO TECHNOLOGY