Health Information System Flashcards
This refers to the intersection between the healthcare’s business process and information systems.
-Health Information System
What is the paradigm shift in healthcare according to Smith (1997)?
-Moving from “Industrial Age Medicine” to “Information Age Healthcare”
What is considered as the main concern for Health Information System to be truly effective in its application in a healthcare setting such as the hospital?
Patient Confidentiality
Health Information Systems involve the interaction between which of the following?
People
Process
Technology
What is the purpose of Health Information System?
-To deliver better healthcare services
Health Information System (HIS) is the intersection between the healthcare’s business and information systems.
Process
A good relationship is a one that the organization becomes alert to and aware of changing needs.
Dynamic
Health Information System has become increasingly important as social, political, and technological factors have advanced over time.
Economic
In a Hospital Health Information System, the hospital is the healthcare as well as healthcare institution.
Environment
A well-utilized and managed Health Information System in the hospital setting contributes to a high-quality, efficient patient.
Care
For Health Information System to be effective, only a portion of the patient information should be made available to someone from the system who performs a certain function.
Necessary
Health Information System was introduced to fully utilize especially the in providing better healthcare.
Internet
The main issue constantly tackled in the application of Health Information System is how to manage the between healthcare providers and patients.
Relationship
Providing the patient with speedy and quality healthcare while assuring that the patient’s is protected fosters good relationship between the patient and the healthcare provider.
Confidentiality
Providing the patient with speedy and healthcare while assuring that the patient’s confidentiality is a protected fosters good relationship between the patient and the healthcare provider.
Quality
The emphasis of Health Informatics is on these types of application. Select all that apply.
- Clinical applications
- Biomedical applications
Why do we gather data in the first place?
-To provide us with information which we use to implement important decisions
Insurance agencies keep these digital records of their clients. These records also contain other important information that affect their clients’ overall health status.
-Electronic Health Record
This focuses only on the patient’s recent and significant medical conditions
-Electronic Medical Record
This electronic record contains the overall health data of a student, which is then stored in the University’s database.
-Electronic Health Record
This also includes other information that affect a person’s overall health status.
-Electronic Health Record
According to the Goldschmidt (2005), this “deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision making.
-Health Information Technology
These are the components of Health Information System. Select all that apply.
Health Informatics Heath Information Technology Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record Electronic Patient Record
According to Conrick (2006), this is the “field that concerns itself with cognitive, information processing, and communication tasks of medical practice, education, research”.
Health Informatics
