Maria Cristina R.

Pitong
BSMT1-2

LESSON 1 (HIS): REFLECTIVE LEARNING

Directions: Please answer the following questions in 5 sentences or less.

A. Choose 3 Data sources of Health Information Systems. In your own opinion, write their
significance.

Demographic Data – as we all know, it refers to age, birthdate, gender, marital status, address of
residence, race and other personal information of an individual wherein in helps the personnel to
fully assess, gather, compile and analyze their health data. In line with this, it will be difficult to the
medical institution if they don’t have any details of the patient and we see that the impact of it to the
healthcare is that can influence the underlying growth rate of the economy, structural productivity
growth, living standards and others. Moreover, the significance of it would be it will be easier to
categorize them as well as it plays an important function to intervention and practices in healthcare.
Patient Medical History – It is significant to every individual because it will help the medical
institution or the Doctor to evaluate or assess their health status based on their previous records. In
addition, thoroughly checking the patient medical history will able to know what health issues they
may encounter and by this, it can be prevented ahead of time. Lastly, the doctors may provide better
treatment plan based on the patient needs.
Health Status – in this case, it is related to patient medical history wherein their medical history will
easily identify or assess their health status. As we all know, it refers to our overall wellbeing wherein
aside from getting ahead of any potential health conditions, knowing the status of our wellbeing can
moreover be advantageous to other perspectives of our life such as our finances and future plans.

B. What component of HIS do you think is the most important? Explain your answer.
I can say that all the components of health information system are important because if one
of them is not properly handle, it may affect the other component that will eventually lead to chain
reaction of error. In line with this, Data Management is important to every institution because it helps
the society to function well in a way that all the information within the society will ensure that their
data sources are protected and confidential. In addition, data management makes a difference
wherein it minimizes potential mistakes by building up forms and approaches for utilization and
others. Lastly, having a competent and organize data management will help the institution to function
well and it helps them to respond easily to the needs of the patient.

C. What can you say about the adoption of HIS in the hospitals in the Philippines?
The adoption of health information systems in the hospitals in the Philippines greatly
improved the performance of our medical institution in a sense that they can easily provide the
needs of the patient with the use of both technology and systems in a healthcare setting. In line with
this, the HIS is indeed an advantage in the hospitals in which it is easier access to files, having
better control, easier update and also help to improved that communications. Lastly, we should be
aware to our actions because if a mistake happens, it will cause or may lead to a minor problem and
those minor problems may potentially become a huge problem to the patient information.