Overview of the Information System Flashcards
It integrates data collection, processing, reporting, and use of the information necessary for improving health service effectiveness and efficiency through better management at all levels of health services
Healthcare Information System
Benefits of Data-Driven Decision Making
o Valuable insights
o Continual growth
o Improved program outcomes
o Optimized operations
o Prediction of future trends
o Actionable insights
Function of HIS
o Collect
o Analyze
o Ensure quality
o Convert
Subsystems of HIS
o Preventive health information system
o Hospital information and medical records system
o Disease surveillance system
o Population/ community-based health information system
o Geographic information systems
o Vital registration system
Saw the initiation of social programs to aid in the medical cure of the aged (Medicare) and poor (Medicaid). Prior to the founding of these institutions, the US government had founded other health programs and institutions
1960s
Shared hospital accounting system
1960s
IT drivers are expensive mainframes and expensive storage
1960s
Healthcare drivers are medicare and medicaid
1960s
The medical and health industries grew rapidly during the decade to become second only to the military in size and cost, many still lacked access to basic health care
1970s
X-ray machine
1970s
IT drivers were smaller computers and improved terminals and connectivity
1970s
Healthcare drivers in 1970s
o Hospital-wide communication (ADT, OC, Bed Control)
o Broadened admin systems
o Departmental systems processing
o Expanded finance admin systems
Marked by a period of adjustment as health care markets and institutions adapt to innovative reimbursement reforms and increasing competition
1980s
Departmental imaging and managed care financial and administrative systems
1980s
IT drivers during the 1980s
o Personal computers
o Cheaper storage
o Networking
o Independent software applications
Healthcare drivers during the 1980s
o Diagnostic related grouping
o reimbursement
Considerable change in the Medicaid program. At the beginning of the decade, Medicaid was still primarily a program that provided health care coverage to persons receiving cash assistance
1990s
Emergence of integrated EMR data offerings
1990s
IT drivers during the 1990s
o Cheaper hardware and storage
o Broadened distributed computers
Healthcare drivers during the 1990s
o Integrated hospital, provider, and managed care offering
o Competition and consolidation
o Need to integrate hospitals, providers, and managed care
How much was the increase in NHE percentage in GDP in the 2000s
1.2% - increase
13.3% - percent in 2000s
When George W. Bush was elected President, he wanted to update Medicare to include prescription drug coverage. This idea turned into what?
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (in 2000s)
Beginnings of outcomes-based reimbursement
2000s
IT driver during the 2000s
Cloud computing
