HIS Divisions: Admistrative, Departmental, Clinical, and Financial Flashcards
What is the purpose of HIT?
Its purpose is two-fold: to support direct clinical care, and to support the management and administration related to such care.
What is HIS?
A physical manifestation of HIT.
A computer-based system that holds and updated patient-related information and records.
The _________, also facilitates communications among _________as well as between _________and their ___________.
HIS, clinicians, clinicians, patients
When people talk about health information technology what are the implying?
They are implying both health information and health communication technology.
When speaking of HIS what is being implied?
It is implying a system that can both perform data storage and enhance communication functions.
What does an HIS include?
- hardware
- software
- all health records that are stored and can be retrieved through it
- the policies and procedures needed to run the system
- the people who keep the system up and running efficiently and safely
The HIS may serve a ______ ______, a ________ ________ ________, or even a ________.
small clinic, large medical center, region.
What are the classification in Healthcare information system overview?
Administrative functions and Clinical functions
Health information systems were originally developed to support?
Administrative functions
Health information systems were originally developed to support administrative functions, which includes recording:
Demographic data and Insurance information
The demographic data of the administrative functions of HIS consist of:
- Name
- social security number or other unique identifier
- age
- date and place of birth
- current address, telephone number (s)
- next of kin or guardians and their addresses and or phone numbers
- possibly work addresses and telephone number
Generally made for administrative functions increasingly, health information systems are used for _________ _________ of __________
__________ and __________.
clinical support, healthcare services, processes
Clinical functions of health information systems are used for clinical support of healthcare services and processes, such as:
- electronic prescribing in both inpatient and outpatient settings
- electronic medications administration
- clinical documentation (aka charting)
- remote reviewing of laboratory results
HIT
Healthcare Information Technology
HIS
Healthcare Information System
