HEALTH INFORMATICS Flashcards
The central component of IT infrastructure, which contains a person’s official digital health record and is shared among multiple healthcare providers and agencies.
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Advantages in the automation of the healthcare information systems
Improved medical care
Lower costs
Increased efficiency
Reduce error
Improve patient satisfaction
A health interoperability ecosystem as a composition of individuals, systems, and processes.
Health Information Ecosystem (HIE)
More data can mean more opportunities to identify trends in diseases and crises.
Better management data
It is defined as an electronic medical record (EMR) developed through the collaboration of the Information and Communication Technology community and health workers, primarily designed for use in the Philippines health centers in disadvantaged areas.
Community Health Information Tracking /System (CHIT/CHITS)
The area of IT involving the design, development, creation, use, and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry.
Health Information Technology (HIT)
Key elements of the health IT infrastructure
- personal health record (PHR)
- health information exchange (HIE)
T/F
Implementations of EHR systems have increased dramatically in the past few years since the inception of the HITECH Act in 2009
True
What are the two widely used types of health IT that help healthcare professionals store and manage patients medical images.
- Picture Archiving Communication and Systems (PACS)
- Vendor Neutral Archives (VNAs)
A composition of individuals, systems, and processes that want to share, exchange, and access all forms of health information, including discrete narrative and multimedia.
Health Interoperability Ecosystem
Allows multiple doctors to review lab results or notes on patients.
Cloud technology
The most important potential benefit of computetalized information processing is improvement and accuracy
Error Reduction
4 based system released under the general public license.
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP
Resulted in heightened efficiency among health workers, since more time can be spent on providing patient care.
Implemetation of CHITS
It is seen more as a novelty rather than as a profession
Health Informatics
T/F
Despite the developments in health informatics in the Philippines, the nation still suffers from various issues that hamper its progress, one of which is the lack of human resource interest in the field.
True
Advantages of Health Informatics in the Philippines in cloud technology are:
- Integrated and efficient patient care
- Better management data
- Error Reduction
T/F
The transition from a traditional to an automated system is easy for members of healthcare organizations, particularly for smaller or older practices that may not be familiar with cloud technology.
False
(difficult)
Any system that captures, stores, manages, or transmits information related to the health of individuals or the activities of organizations that work within the health sector.
Health Information System
T/F
A well-functioning HIS is an integrated effort to collect, process, report, and use health information and knowledge to influence policy and decision- making, program action, individual and public health outcomes, and research
True
Revolutionized the way that doctors and health care professionals maintain patient information
Files are easier to access
Doctors may have the permission to update, change, and delete information from the electronics medical record
More controls
Only have the authority to update a patient’s appointments
Receptionist
Let doctors create electronic medical records for their patients. Patient information can be pulled up for review at any time and copies can be made for the patient upon request.
Easy to Update
Health information systems abet communication between multiple doctors or patients.
Communication
T/F
A good health information system delivers accurate information in a timely manner, enabling decisions-makers to make better informed choices about different aspects of the health institution, from patient care to annual budgets.
True
Consists of the legislative, regualorty, and planning frameworks required to ensure a fully functioning health information system, and the resources involve personnel, financing, logistics support, information and communications technology.
Health Information system resources
A core set of indicators and related targets for the three domains health information, is the basis for a plan and strategy for a health information system.
Indicators
Two main categories of data sources
- Population based approaches
- Institution based data
Censuses, civil registration and population surveys belong to:
Population based approaches
Individual records, service records, and resource records belong to:
Institution based data
This covers all aspects of data handling: collection, storage, quality-assurance, flow, processing, compilation, and analysis.
Data Management
Data must be transformed into information that will become the basis for evidence and knowledge to shape action
Information Products
The value of health information can be enhanced by making it readily accessible to decision-makers and providing incentives for information use.
Dissemination and use
What are the different data sources?
Demographic data
Administrative data
Health risk information
Health status
Patient medical history
Current medical management
Outsource data
Consist of information about immediate family members and emergency information.
age, birthdate, gender, race, ethnic origin, marital status, address of residence.
Demographic data
Involves facts with respect to service providers.
diagnostic tests
outpatient procedures
Administrative data
It reveals lifestyle and behavior and facts about family history and genetic factors to evaluate prospensity for different diseases.
Health risk information
Health related quality of life. Generally reported by individuals themselves , reflects domains of health such as physical functioning, mental and emotional well- being, cognitive functioning, social and role functioning, and perceptions of one’s health in the past, present, and future compared with that of one’s peers.
Health status
Consider data on previous medical encounters such as hospital admissions, surgical procedures, pregnancies and live births, and the like.
Patient medical history
The content of encounter forms or parts of the patient record. Such information might reflect health screening, current health problems and diagnoses.
Current medical management
Comprise a wide array of measures of the effects of health care and the aftermath of various health problems.
Outcomes data
The components of HIS are
Inputs, processes, outputs
Inputs
Health Information System Resources
Processes
Indicators
Data Sources
Data Management
Outputs
Information Products
Dissemination and Use
T/F
HIS improves the services because files are easier to access, provided with more controls, easy to update, and easy communication .
True
The primary product of the clinical laboratory.
Information
