HEALTHCARE INFORMATION REGULATIONS, LAWS, AND STANDARDS Flashcards
● The main drivers of the healthcare system are essential for the efficient management and operation of the public health system.
HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCE
● They are the health educators and providers of health services.
HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCE
● Find the most efficient way on how to deliver HC services
HEALTH HUMAN RESOURCE
● Pertains to the effect, patient-centered care through activation and engagement,
HEALTH OUTCOMES
● Changes in health that result from specific health interventions
HEALTH OUTCOMES
● Measuring how well a patient responds to treatment, how satisfied patients are with the care that they receiving
HEALTH OUTCOMES
● Average number of years of life expected hypothetically for individuals
LIFE EXPECTANCY
● Subject throughout their lives to the mortality rate at a given period expressed in years
LIFE EXPECTANCY
● No of years a newborn or infant could live if prevailing mortality during its birth would stay throughout its life
● Influences involved: sex, lifestyle (diet, smoking, alcohol, etc)
LIFE EXPECTANCY
Measured to determine the status of health and particular dynamics of an area
DEATHS AND BIRTHS
no. of death occurring during the year per 1000 pop, mid year
● Crude death rate
the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the population change in the absence of migration
○ Crude: di kasama mga nanganak sa bahay, undocumented birth
● Crude birth minus crude death
○ Refers to decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific health care goals within a society.
Health policy
○ It outlines priorities and the expected roles of different groups; and it builds consensus and informs people
Health policy
provides national policy, direction, and strategic plans, regulatory guidelines for health in highly specialized and specific tertiary level hospitals
○ DOH
○ Kalusugan Pangkalahatan - continued health reform through three key strategies
Universal Health Care (UHC) Bill into Law (RA 11223)
RA 11223
Universal Health Care law (UHC)
three key strategies
■ Achieving universal sustainable Philhealth membership
■ Upgrading and modernizing government health facilities
■ Fortifying efforts to achieve millennium development goals
○ Every Filipino, including overseas Filipino workers, are eligible for preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative care upon automatic enrollment to the government’s health insurance program.
UHC
○ The Philippine Health Insurance Company (PhilHealth) will have expanded coverage to include
free consultation fees, laboratory tests and other diagnostic services.
○ To improve doctor-to-patient ratio, upgrade hospital bed capacities and equipment and establish more hospitals in remote areas.
UHC
The process that gives a facility a legal approval to operate
● Licensure
Licensure for health facilities
DOH and Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau
Licensure for professionals
Professional Regulation Commission
gives a healthcare organization the authority to participate in several programs
● Certification