Informatics: Flashcards
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Health informatics:
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Is the science and practice around information in health that leads to informed and assisted health care. (eHEALTH)
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Reasons for informatics:
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- Postive impact on the quality and efficiency
- Codes of professional and ethical conduct
- Separate discipline
- Health IT solutions
3
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Aims:
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- To support healthcare workers
- Allowing effecient access to quality, timely data and information
- Related to collection
- Relates to indirect or direct indelivery
4
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Goals:
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Improve health
Optimise information management
Open/encourage communication
5
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Collaboration:
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- Electronic records
- Technology enhances communication
- Secure website
- Remote access
6
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How can I breach confidentiality:
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- Giving an appointment to a patient in a crowded waiting room
- Using the patients surname to identify someone in a waiting room
- Leaving patients files in view of other patients
- Emailing information between staff
