Miscellaneous 3 - Health Informatics and eHealth

Question 1

What is health informatics and eHealth?

Answer 1

deals with the resources, devices and methods required to gather, store, retrieve and use health care data

Question 2

Uses of health informatics and eHealth? (6)

Answer 2

information handling: referrals, results
clinical governance and audit
improving access to care: rural areas/ appointments
decision support/ risk prediction
national statistics/ healthcare resource planning
research: epidemiology, clinical trials

Question 3

What are the 2 resources which can be used to record/ code data?

Answer 3

ICD - international classification of disease

Read Code System of Classification

Question 4

What is the international classification of disease?

Answer 4

The WHO global health information standard for mortality and morbidity statistics - used to define disease and study disease patterns, manage health care and allocate resources

Question 5

What are Read Codes used for?

Answer 5

To define disease and study disease patterns, manage health care and monitor outcomes and allocate resources

Question 6

What is a Hierarchial data structure?

Answer 6

a data model in which the data is organised into a tree-like structure. The data is stored as records which are connected to one another through links

Question 7

What are the names of the 2 data governance rules/ principles?

Answer 7

Data protection act

Caldicott principles of data processing

Question 8

What is telemedicine?

Answer 8

Interaction between telecommunication (exchange of information over significant distances), medicine and informatics