Information Technology and Community Health Part Flashcards
It is a relatively recent healthcare practice supported by electronic processes and communication, dating back to at least 1999.
E-Health
The usage of the term varies as it just not covers the “internet medicine” as it was conceived during that time, but also covers “virtually everything related to computers and medicine.
E-Health
These are used by doctors, hospitals, insurance providers to record patient health information, called protected health information or PHI.
eHealth applications
What is the primary role of community health nurses (CHN)?
Provide treatment to patients
A facility-based data aggregation system that is used for public health-related decision making.
Electronic Health Management Information Systems (eHIMS)
These are unanalyzed raw facts that do not imply meaning
Data
When meaning is attributed to data and when data are processed and analyzed, the data become information.
Information
In order for information to be valuable, what characteristics must data have?
1) Accuracy
2) Accessibility
3) Comprehensiveness
4) Consistency/reliability
5) Currency
6) Definition
What administrative order outlined the policy directions of Universal Health Care, Kalusugan Pangkalahatan (KP)?
A.O No. 2010-0036
Its aim is to attain efficiency by using IT in all aspects of
health care.
Kalusugan Pangkalahatan
Comprehensive patient records that are stored and access from a computer or server
Electronic Medical Records
This is to reach and provide better health services to geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas, to support MDG attainment and to disseminate information to citizens and providers.
Telemedicine
The use of electronic tools to aid in teaching
eLearning
The use of electronic tools to aid in teaching
eLearning
What are the roles of a CHN in eHealth?
1) Data and Records Manager
2) Change Agent
3) Educator
4) Telepresenter
5) Client Advocate
6) Researcher
Monitors the trends of diseases through the EMR allowing for targeted interventions for health promotion, disease prevention, curative services or rehabilitation
Data and Records Manager
Nurses acts as _______ by working closely with the community and implementing eHealth with them and not for them.
Change Agents
Provide health education and families through ICT tools
Educator
In the event that a patient need to be referred to a remote medical specialist through telemedicine.
Telepresenter
Nurses safeguard patients records, ensuring that security, confidentiality, and privacy of all patient information ate being upheld.
Client Advocate
Responsible for identifying possible points for research and developing a framework based on data aggregated by the system.
Researcher
