Week 6 - foundation and application of health informatics Flashcards
What are PMS (NAPRA def’n) (3)
Must support the delivery of patient care including the dispensing of drugs
ability to record, display, store, and exchange patient specific information
must facilitate information exchange with external systems (EHR)
-preserving confidenciality and security of PHI processed or transmitted
PMS vs EMR (3)
a product order/inventory management system
detailed medication product information, including quants, exp dates, appearance
insurance/health benefit electronic billing
Big picture of EHR/EMR/PMS/DIS
EMR sends info <–> EHR
EHR contains:
- patient registries
- lab information systems
- diagnostic imaging repositories
- provider registries
- DIS
- public health surveillance
EHR sends info <—> PMS
What are databases
database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system
records or data meant to be shared by many users for a variety of applications
What is the main component of a database
heat of a database is the DBMS (database management system)
allows for creation, modification, and updating the database; retrieval of data; generation of reports
examples of DBMS (5)
MS Access
MySQL
IBM DB2
Oracle database
MS SQL Server
Databases that we may be apart of
public library
university phone book
bank
insurance
credit card
What are benefits of belonging to databases (ones we part of)
Access to books, money, etc
making contact with people
paying without cash
storing/accessing money
what are some drawbacks to databases (3)
potential risks to privacy
opportunities for crime
errors can lead to problems (credit denial)
creating a new patient record (kroll)
enter name —> insert
fill in rest of info —-> select
hierarchy of data (3)
- field
- record
- table or file
field
particular piece of data (name + value)
Record
a collection of related data (fields) about one entity, situation, or event
Table or file
an unordered collection of related records having the same attributes (names and types of fields), representing a collection of similar entities, situations, or events
example of field (kroll patient record)
last name address etc
example of record (kroll patient record)
one patient record