OVERVIEW OF HEALTH INFORMATICS

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Rouse (2016) defines it as “the area of IT involving the design, development, creation, use, and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry

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Health Information Technology

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Automated and interoperable healthcare
information systems are expected to:

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-improve medical care
-lower costs
-increase efficiency
-reduce error
-improve patient satisfaction

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-is a person’s official, digital health record and is shared among multiple healthcare providers and agencies.
-is the central component of the health IT infrastructure.

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electronic health record (EHR)

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which is a person’s self-maintained
health record, and the health information exchange (HIE),

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personal health record (PHR),

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a group of healthcare organizations that enter into an interoperability pact and agree to share data between their various health IT systems.

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health data clearinghouse

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Meaningful use is changing to a new
value-based reimbursement system under a law passed by

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Congress in 2015 called MACRA, the Medicare Access and CHIP
(Children’s Health Insurance Plan) Reauthorization Act.

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(PACS)

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Picture archiving and communication systems

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(VNAs)

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Vendor neutral archives

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store and manage patients’ medical images.

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Vendor neutral archives (VNAs)

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Composed of individuals, systems and processes that
want to share, exchange, and access all forms of health information, including discrete, narrative and multimedia.

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Health Interoperability Ecosystem

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Percent of healthcare organizations are making use of
cloud-based applications, and it is changing the landscape of the healthcare system and health informatics.

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83%

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is a method for delivering IT services in
which resources are retrieved from the Internet through web-based tools and applications.

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“Cloud computing”

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They can spend more time deciding and
performing patient treatment instead of waiting for
information he needs coming from different
departments.

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Physicians

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Advantages

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1: Integrated and Efficient Patient Care
2: Better Management of Data

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Disadvantages

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1: Potential Risks to Personal Information
2: Cloud Set-up Seems Cumbersome

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-Cloud technology offers a single access point for patient
information, and this allows multiple doctors to review
lab results or notes on patients.
-Physicians can spend more time deciding and
performing patient treatment instead of waiting for
information he needs coming from different
departments.

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Advantage 1: Integrated and Efficient Patient Care

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The information contained within medical records may
be subjected to theft or other violations of privacy and
confidentiality. Fortunately, safeguards may be put in
place in order to minimize such threats, such as
encryption, proper data disposal, and other security
features.

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Disadvantage 1: Potential Risks to Personal Information

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-The accumulation of electronic health records will
allow more meaningful data mining that can
better assess the health of the general public.

-More data can mean more opportunities to
identify trends in diseases and crises.

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Advantage 2: Better Management of Data

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The transition from a traditional to an
automated system might be difficult to
some members of healthcare organizations,
particularly for smaller or older practices that
may not be familiar with cloud technology.

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Disadvantage 2: Cloud Set-up Seems Cumbersome

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Health informatics had been loosely practiced in the Philippines as early as the

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1980s.

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is an electronic medical record (EMR) developed through the collaboration of the Information and Communication Technology community and health workers, primarily designed for use in Philippine health centers in disadvantaged areas.

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