Information Literacy and Health Information Management System Flashcards
Information Systems (IS)
integrated set of components for collecting, storing, and processing data
Components of information systems
• computer hardware and software
telecommunications
• databases and data warehouses
• human resources
• procedures
Operations support system
To facilitate business transaction, control production, support internal as well as external communication and update organization central database
Transaction Processing System (TPS)
ex. sales order, sales return, cash receipts, credit sales; credit slips, material accounting, inventory management
Process Control System
Certain decisions are made by a computer system without any manual intervention.
Enterprise Collaboration System
Enables collaborative effort by improving communication and sharing of data
Management Support System
Facilitates an efficient decision making process for managers
Computer literacy
- understand how different applications work together
- ability to operate a computer
Information literacy
The ability to recognize your information needs and then access, evaluate, organize, and use information from a variety of sources
Information System literacy
The knowledge of how information systems work.
Information Literate: Acknowledge what information you need
Recognize
Population-based data sources
• Censuses
• Civil registration
• Population surveys
Institution-based data sources
• Individual records
• Service records
• Resource records
Boolean Search: AND
- Narrows the search by combining terms
- inclusionary and thus limits your search.
Boolean Search: OR
- Broaden; Inclusion
- offers flexible inclusion, and typically broadens your search results
in Google “______” are used to find titles with specific terms. Operators are in lower case.
Quotation Marks
Boolean Search: NOT
- Narrows; Exclusion
– it excludes specific search terms and so the query will not return any results with that term (or terms) in them
Boolean Search: NOT
- Narrows; Exclusion
– it excludes specific search terms and so the query will not return any results with that term (or terms) in them
largest search partners of Google, Bing and Yahoo and
has long-term relationships with them
Visymo Search
Visymo operates various search engines:
ZapMeta
iZito
Vinden.nl
Zoeken.nl
Evaluate: Is it the information you need? Does it answer your question?
Accuracy
Evaluate: Does it come from credible source?
Authority
Evaluate: Does it provide good evidence supporting the information or appear more opinion-oriented?
Objectivity
Evaluate: Is there a date available for when the information or data was added to the database? Is it new information? Or does it indicate that the information had been recently updated
Currency
Evaluate: Is it complete? and available when you need it?
Coverage
When you are information literate, you can ______ the information you find in a way that provides clarity to the question you seek to answer or the problem you are
trying to solve.
Organize
Basis for: Informed decisions
Policies and guidelines
Program Development and Planning
Use
What is the most basic item in an information system?
Data
_____ can be a fact, text, graphic, image, or sound.
Data
formatted, filtered, organized, structured interpreted, summarized data
Information
apply information to make a decision or take an action
Knowledge
the quality of being wise
Wisdom
IDTOMIS
Integrated Drug Test Operations Management Information System
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 - CHITS
