CHAPTER 3 Flashcards
a broad term that describes the technology and infrastructure used to record, analyze, and share patient health data
Health Information Technology (Health IT)
Various technologies include health record systems, including personal, paper, and electronic; personal health tools including smart devices and apps; and finally, communities to share and discuss information.
Its purpose is to provide better care for patients and help achieve health equity.
Health Information Technology (Health IT)
It supports recording of patient data to improve healthcare delivery and allow for analysis of this information for both healthcare practitioners and ministry of health/government agencies.
Health Information Technology (Health IT)
It improves the quality of healthcare delivery, increases patient safety, decreases medical errors, and strengthens the interaction between patients and healthcare providers.
Health Information Technology (Health IT)
It allegedly strengthens the opportunities for self-care, self-management and patient participation. It supposedly increases the range and impact of disease prevention and health education.
eHealth
It is the use of information and communication technology to reinforce health and health care.
e-Health
As an umbrella concept, it includes associated notions such as telemedicine, mHealth, tele-care, e-Public health, e-Mental health or tele-health.
It refers to forms of prevention and education, diagnostics, therapy and care delivered through digital technology, independently of time and place
e-Health
As an umbrella concept, it includes associated notions such as telemedicine, mHealth, tele-care, e-Public health, e-Mental health or tele-health.
It drives dearly needed global healthcare innovation and curbs rising expenditures. In short, it consolidates the public interests of affordability, quality and accessibility of health care.
eHealth
3 components of eHealth
- Storage
- Retrieval
- Transmittal
Storage
It is an electronic system used and maintained by healthcare systems to collect and store patients’ medical information
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Storage
These are used across clinical care and healthcare administration to capture a variety of medical information from individual patients over time, as well as to manage clinical workflows.
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Storage
These contain different types of patient-level variables, such as demographics, diagnoses, problem lists, medications, vital signs, and laboratory data.
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Storage
These has multiple core functionalities, including the capture of health information, orders and results management, clinical decision support, health information exchange, electronic communication, patient support, administrative processes, and population health reporting.
National Academies of Medicine:
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Retrieval
It transforms the ordeal of tracking down referral care records, full diagnostic imaging, and pathology—which can often drag on for weeks—into a quick, simple turnkey service that can be initiated a nurse.
eHealth Record Retrieval Service
It is an element of health informatics that focuses mainly on the administrational needs of hospitals.
Hospital Information System (HIS)
a.k.a hospital management software (HMS) or hospital management system
It is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage all the aspects of a hospital’s operation, such as medical, administrative, financial, and legal issues and the corresponding processing of services.
Hospital Information System (HIS)
a.k.a hospital management software (HMS) or hospital management system
It provides a common source of information about a patient’s health history
Hospital Information System (HIS)
a.k.a hospital management software (HMS) or hospital management system
It is a medical imaging technology which provides economical storage and convenient access to images from multiple modalities (source machine types).
Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)
These typically contain general information such as treatment and medical history about a patient as it is collected by the individual medical practice.
Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
digital equivalent of paper records, or charts at a clinician’s office
What allows e-health users to communicate with health care professionals by e-mail, to access medical records, to research health information, and to engage in person-to-person exchange of text, audio, video, and other data
Internet
It provides both audio and visual transfer of a variety of information between two or more individuals at two or more locations in real time.
Interactive TV
also known as polycom
These freestanding devices (usually computers), are used in e-health to provide interactive information to the user.
Kiosks
can also be used to collect data and information from users
These are used to store data digitally
DVDs, USB flash drives, and other media
These are the fundamental elements of cognition and are defined as unanalyzed raw facts that do not imply meaning.
Data
(Gudea, 2005)
When meaning is attributed to data and when data are processed and analyzed, then data become information.