Ch 1 - Technology in Care Delivery Flashcards
Informatics
Application of information technology
Medical Informatics
“Interdisciplinary science of acquisition, maintenance, retrieval, and application of biomedical knowledge and information to improve pt care, medical info, and health science research”
Who is needed to develop an EMR system?
Clinical professionals
What kind of data needs to be collected into an EMR?
Anything and everything
How do we measure safety, efficacy, and reliability?
Once we crunch all numbers together, we will know if there is a safety issue in the EMR, how fast can we correct it
How do we determine responsibility for errors?
Who put info into the chart
Administrative Applications
Office management use - scheduling, account and billing
Clinical Applications
Anything to do with direct pt care - includes diagnosis, monitoring, and treatments
EHR
Belongs to a single pt and is the info from one or more encounters, test results, vital signs, demographics, etc (Pt portal/MySanfordChart)
EMR
Belongs to a single health care institution and is where the pt info is entered into a system and managed (EMR = medical professionals)
Interoperability
Computer systems and programs that can communicate and transfer data between systems (where it doesn’t work, like D2L and Pages)
Health Information Technology (HIT)
EMR and computer information systems
What would complete interoperability look like?
Would be great if all systems could talk to each other but there are glitches
Problems & Challenges w/ EMRs
Costs, accuracy, reliability, workflow, system automation & defaults, distracting, privacy, complex interfaces, shortcuts in charting
EMR for the win!
Reduce errors, handwriting is hard to read, default alerts and thresholds, data support systems, smart sets, clinical care picture, pt access, tracking care, continuation of care, screenings & preventative care
Foundational Interoperability
One EHR system can receive data from another system but doesn’t need to be able to interpret it
Structural Interoperability
Data can be exchanged between information technology systems and interpersonal at the data field level
Semantic Interoperability
Where two or more systems can exchange information, and the exchanged information can be used
CMS
Center for Medicare and Medicaid
ONC
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
1996 - HIPAA
Privacy and security to individual records and insurance portability
2004 - ONCHIT
Bush Admin - declared 2004-2014 “The decade of HIT” aimed promote and oversee to development of national health information tech infrastructure, adoption, and meaningful use of EHR