AMBULATORY CARE

SYSTEM
 AMBULATORY CARE
>Covers a wide range of health care services that are provided for patients who are
not admitted overnight to a hospital.

>These services are performed at outpatient clinics, urgent care centers, emergency
rooms, ambulatory or same-day surgery centers, diagnostic and imaging centers,
primary care centers, community health centers, occupational health centers, mental
health clinics, and group practices.

Ambulatory Care Information System

>Provides automated processing of data and information such as allergies and medical
alerts, patients accounting system such as charging, billing, discounts and
concessions, diagnostics imaging treatments and etc.

>With this system, the patient waiting time is optimized through effective queue
management.

>It involves one-time registration required per visit. It also facilitates the management
of doctors schedule.
 Sites where ambulatory care can be delivered

• Doctor’s surgeries/doctor’s offices

• Clinics
-designed to evaluate and treat conditions that are not
severe enough to require treatment in hospital emergency but
still require treatment beyond normal physician office
hours
• Hospitals (Emergency Department, hospital-based services
that doesn’t need to be admitted
• Non-medical institution-based settings
-school and prison health; vision, dental,
pharmaceutical
>Real-time and easy access to patient’s medical records by healthcare providers.
>Improved workflow, which allows more time for comprehensive patient counselling and
review.

>Reduced errors with the availability of various automation engines – drug interaction
engine; medical alert engine; patient billing engine, etc.
>Automated and integrated back-end process such as pharmacy, billing, purchasing,
inventory management, etc.

>Improved clinical outcome analysis – enhanced research productivity through data mining

and facilitate institutional handling of managed care challenges in a timely manner.

>Improvement in hospital inventory management.

>Better monitoring and management of costs – prescription, consumables, doctor’s fees, etc.

ADVANTAGES OF AMBULATORY CARE INFORMATION

SYSTEM
 • Increased accountability
• The need for continuous
support
• Privacy and
confidentiality of
ISSUES IN
AMBULATORY
information
CARE • Accessibility and security
INFORMATION of data and information
SYSTEM
• Integration and support to
the other system
Thank You!
 THE ROLE OF NURSE USING
INFORMATION SYSTEM IN THE
AMBULATORY CARE SYSTEM
• The very basic objective of the automated ambulatory care information
system is to easily integrate the data to the other data and easily translate
these data into information.

• The effective transformation of data can be integrated to the other

processes to transform it into knowledge.

• The ambulatory care nurse and other health care provider should be
capable enough to implement the process effectively.

source: Antipuesto RN, MN, D.J. (2011, August 3). Nursing informatics in ambulatory care information
system. Retrieved from http://nursingcrib.com/nursing-informatics/nursing-informatics-in-ambulatory-
care-information-system/