HEALTH CARE SOFTWARE SYSTEM

Information Age  generation of huge amounts

of routine data
3 Types of Health Information Technology
(Rouse, 2016)

HEALTH INFORMATICS 1. Electronic Health Records (EHR)

 Central component of HIT infrastructure
 Aims to make sense of large amounts of data while  Person’s official, digital health records
insuring processes are valid and secure.  Shared among multiple healthcare providers and
 Health Information Technology agencies
Health Information Management
2. Personal Health Records (PHR)
 Person’s self-maintained health record
Health Data
 Demographics  Present Illnesses 3. Health Information Exchange (HIE)
 Socioeconomics  Health Status  Health data clearinghouse
 Group of healthcare organizations that enter into an
interoperability pact and agree to share data
between their various HIT systems.
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

2 Widely Used Types of HIT

Rouse (2016) [help manage and store patient’s medical images]
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“The area of IT involving the design
development, creation, use and maintenance of
1. Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
information systems for the healthcare industry.”
 Radiology Images: Xray, Ultrasound, MRI, CT Scan
 Storing of data: Review Station, Workstation,
Physician, Radiologist
 Automated and interoperable healthcare information
systems
2. Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA)
Improve medical care, lower costs,  Data Exchange
increase efficiency, reduce error,
and improve patient satisfaction.

HEALTH INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM

 Important: maintain privacy and security during
transmission The Health Information and
 Promises to modernized and streamline healthcare Management Systems Society (2017)
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 Connect different users and stakeholders in the e-health
“Health interoperability ecosystem as a composition of
market
individuals, systems, and processes that share, exchange,
 Systems are promising and are becoming widely
and access all forms of health information, including
developed worldwide [Kushniruk & Boryeki]
discrete, narrative, and multimedia.

 Electronic Health Records

 Decision Support Systems  Clinical Documents
 Personal Health Records  Diagnostic Imaging Center
 Hospital
 Pharmacy
 Physicians

Lesson 4: Health Informatics

 HEALTH INFORMATICS IN THE CLOUD

 83% healthcare organizations – cloud-based

applications
 Advantages:
 Integrated and efficient patient care
 Batter management of data

 Disadvantages:
 Potential risks to personal information
 Cloud setup seems cumbersome

HEALTH INFORMATICS IN THE PHILIPPINES

 1980s
 IBM compatible machines
 Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS)
 Linus, Apache, MySQL, PHP-based system
 Released under General Public License (GPL)
 Named finalist at the Stockholm Challenge 2006
 1 of top 3 e-government projects in the Philippines
by Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Digital
Opportunity Center.
 An Electronic Medical Record developed through the
collaboration of the Information and Communication
Technology community and Health Workers
 Designed for use in Philippine Health Centers in
disadvantaged areas
 111 government health facilities

“The large initial expenditure for a health information

system remains another barrier to the integration
of IT in Philippine healthcare” (Marcelo, 2012).

“Despite the development, health informatics in the

Philippines still suffers from various issues that
hamper progress, one of these is the lack of interest
in the field. Another issue is that the benefits
of information technology do not seem
apparent to many decision-makers
in the health sector.”

Lesson 4: Health Informatics