Overview of Health Informatics

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATED AND EFFICIENT PATIENT CARE
"The area of IT involving the design, development, Advantage 1

creation, use, and maintenance of information systems for the  Cloud technology offers a single access point for
healthcare industry." patient information, and this allows
Automated and interoperable healthcare information multiple doctors to review lab results or notes on patients
systems are expected to:  Physicians can spend more time deciding
1. improve medical care and performing patient treatment instead of waiting he needs
2. lower costs coming from different
3. increase efficiency departments.
4. reduce error
5. improve patient satisfaction POTENTIAL RISKS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
Disadvantage 1
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD (EHR)  This information contained with medical
- the central component of the health IT infrastructure records may be subjected to theft or other
EHR or electronic medical record – a person's violations of privacy and confidentiality.
official, digital health record and is shared among multiple  Fortunately, safeguards may be put in place
healthcare providers and agencies to minimize such threats, such as encryption, proper data
disposal, and other security features.
Other key elements of the health IT infrastructure:
a. personal health record (PHR) - person's self-maintained BETTER MANAGEMENT OF DATA
health record, and the health information exchange (HIE) Advantage 2
 The accumulation of electronic health
b. health data clearinghouse or a group of healthcare records will allow more meaningful data mining that can
organizations that enter an interoperability pact and agree to better assess the health of
share data between their various IT systems the public.
 More data can mean more opportunities to
PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION identify trends in diseases and crises.
SYSTEMS (PACS)
CLOUD SET-UP SEEMS CLUMBERSOME
VENDOR NEUTRAL ARCHIVE (VNAS) Disadvantage 2
- store and manage patient's medical images.  The transition from a traditional to an
- radiology departments have been the primary automated system might be difficult to some
repositories of medical images members of healthcare organization, particularly for smaller or
- now: cardiology, neurology has also become older practices that may not be familiar with cloud technology.
large-scale producers of clinical images
HEALTH INFORMATICS IN THE PHILIPPPINES
HEALTH INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM
 Health informatics had been loosely practiced in the
Composed of individuals, systems, and processes that want to
Philippines as early as 1980s.
share, exchange, and access all forms of health information,
including discrete, narrative, and multimedia
 Practitioners who had access to IBM compatible
machines were already using word processors to store
HEALTH INTEROPERABILITY ECOSYSTEM
patient information
 each potential stakeholder is involved in
the creation, exchange, and use of health information and/or
 CHITS - a Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP-based
data
system release under the public license (GPL)**
 provides an information infrastructure that
uses technical standards, policies, and protocols to enable
seamless and secure capture, discovery, exchange, and CHITS - Community Health Information Tracking System
utilization of health information **finalist at the Stockholm Challenge
2006; one of the 3 e-government projects
HEALTH INFORMATICS IN THE CLOUD in the PH by the Asia Pacific Economic
83% of healthcare organizations are making use of Cooperation Digital Opportunity Center
cloud-based applications, and it is changing the
landscape of the healthcare system and health CHITS
 an open-source, web-based patient tracking system
informatics. custom-designed for government health centers;
committed to complying with current and future
CLOUD COMPUTING DOH requirements
- a method for delivering IT services in which  Developed by Dr. Herman Tolentino
resources are retrieved from the internet through
 Composed of infrastructure (hardware and network),
web-based tools and applications software –training and certification
Features:
• Master patient index
• Consult history
• Special modules: Maternal care – Child
care National Tuberculosis Program
General services
• Generate reports required by FHSIS
- an electronic medical record (EMR)

developed through the collaboration of the Information and
Communication Technology
community and health workers
- primarily designed for use in PH health

centers in disadvantaged areas
HEALTH INFORMATICS IN THE PHILIPPINES

Despite the developments in health
informatics in the Philippines, the nation
still suffers from various issues that hamper
its progress:
1. Lack of human resource

2. The benefits of information technology do not
seem apparent to many decision-makers in the
healthcare sector
3. Large initial expenditure for a health information system
remains another barrier to the integration of IT in the PH
healthcare

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATED AND EFFICIENT PATIENT CARE

"The area of IT involving the design, development, Advantage 1

- an electronic medical record (EMR)

- primarily designed for use in PH health

HEALTH INFORMATICS IN THE PHILIPPINES

1. Lack of human resource

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