CA 3 - The Language of Health Informatics

CA 3 - The Language of Health Informatics

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language will be assuming the role of a lead person on a technology review committee at a multi-facility regional hospital . Your committee has been tasked with evaluating the plausibility and possible selection of a new health information system that will enable the hospital to electronically collect and share patient medical history information among its various hospital centers and departments

Currently , each hospital center maintains copies and s of patient records , which are separately managed and stored at each

br facility . Very few of the electronically based information system are integrated between the various centers and locations

To add to the challenge , the CIO informs you that most of the members on the committee have very limited experience with information systems and databases . However , the CIO is aware that you are studying health informatics , so she has asked you to help familiarize the committee with fundamental concepts related to databases systems and relevant health information standards . Specifically , the CIO (and your professor requests that you prepare a two (full ) page for presentation to the committee that provides a good overview of the following

Fundamentals of database characteristics and structure

Various types of medical data and information records relevant to this project

The importance of uniform terminology , coding and standardization of the data

Various information standards and organizations that may be applicable and possibly required , for this project

Remember , your committee is mostly comprised of clinicians and other healthcare practitioners . Accordingly , they do not have a great deal of technical knowledge related to information systems

Introduction

The objective of this project is to create a new electronic patient management health information system in to handle the flow of patient information . This system is to basically enter process , store modify and transmit the patient information . The current system is a manual one , in which the data is hand written down and stored in the form of hard copies . A lot of hassles are experience with the current system . Hence , it is proposed to shift to an electronic system

Fundamentals of database characteristics and structure

The health information system database seems to be highly specialized functional and structural units integrated in a particular hospital environment . The system not only helps to manage the processes but also helps in the functioning of the hospital . The data is collected from the patient entry system or from integration with other networks . It then passes through the internal network for use by the various staff units including patients , laboratory , clinical , nursing units , intensive care unit , pharmaceutical , management , administrators , etc . The database would be performing several functions including processing and storing medical data , ensuring that certain quality standards are met reporting costs and ensuring that cost-effective strategies are followed and also providing templates and forms for medical entries . Several functions such as quality control , resource handling , administration etc , are taken care of by the database . The health information system would convert the data...