OVERVIEW OF HEALTH INFORMATICS

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

Automated and interoperable healthcare information systems are expected to:

-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.

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

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

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

(PACS)

(VNAs)

store and manage patients’ medical images.

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

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

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

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

Advantages

Disadvantages

-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.

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.

-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.

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.

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

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.