Health Information Technology

 Is the area of information technology

involving the design, development, creation,
use, and maintenance of information
systems for the health care industry
 Is an electronic system from which health
care professional and patients use to store
and share and analyze health care
information

Healthcare Software Systems

 Electronic Health Record (EHR)

o Official health record in digital form
o It allows doctors to better keep
track of a patient’s health
information
o It makes easier for the physicians
to share information with specialists

Health Informatics

 Focus more in the action of utilizing data,

data analytics, and technology to improve
patient care delivery
 Utilizes both Health Information Technology
and Health Information Management to
improve process efficiency and to reduce
medical cost
 Uses data that is gathered and stored
through the HIM systems to create
knowledge
 It involves in the manipulation of enterprise
wide data to create improvement and
outcomes, processes and the cost.
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