LESSON 4 - OVERVIEW OF THE HEALTH INFORMATICS

Question 1

Health care information
systems are expensive. It costs P500,000 for
smaller hospital while millions for larger hospitals.
It lowers costs because it reduces error. When
there is human element, there is a possibility
of error. Humans are driven by emotions and
distracted by emotions (e.g., A medtech
professional has personal problems and bothered
by those problems He/She might commit some
mistakes in writing results. Moreover, it reduces
the human element.) Errors are not just costly in
terms of human lives. You have to retract your
results if mistakes are committed.

Answer 1

LOWER COSTS

Question 2

reduce error and improve medical care.

Answer 2

INCREASE EFFICIENCY

Question 3

Single most important goal if you are a medical
institution to improve patient satisfaction

Answer 3

IMPROVE PATIENT SATISFACTION

Question 4

people related to medical care,
health workers, patients, administrators,
investors

Answer 4

Stakeholders

Question 5

person’s self-maintained and -documented health
record

Answer 5

PHR (PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD)

Question 6

application both the
information technology and information management
(systems).

Answer 6

HEALTH INFORMATICS

Question 7

EHR

Answer 7

Electronic Health Record

Question 8

PHR

Answer 8

Personal Health record

Question 9

HIE

Answer 9

Health Information Exchange

Question 10

PACS

Answer 10

Picture Archiving and Communications
System

Question 11

VNA

Answer 11

Vendor Neutral Archives

Question 12

The specimen shows
a tan to white discoloration. 5 by 3 by 2 mm

Answer 12

Narrative Information

Question 13

these are images.

Answer 13

Multimedia

Question 14

developed
through the collaboration of the ICT community
(NTHC) and health workers

Answer 14

electronic medical record (EMR

Question 15

free; don’t need to
pay for running the system

Answer 15

General Public License

Question 16

IBM

Answer 16

International Business Machines

Question 17

It is a platform for health purposes

Answer 17

PHR (PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD)

Question 18

PHR information typically includes:

Answer 18

o allergies
o family history
o medications taken
o surgeries performed
o hospitalization record

Question 19

is the marriage of
technology and process in order for us to
collect, analyze, process, and distribute the
data in the health care industry.

Answer 19

Information system

Question 20

This is the era of information age. Everything right
now can be googled and searched through the
internet.

Answer 20

HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Question 21

It reduces the
workload on the health care workers. Almost half
of your work in the hospital is not about the patient
or case of the medical technologists or test.

Answer 21

IMPROVE MEDICAL CARE