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Health informatics aims to organize and manage health information using health information technology to improve delivery of health services. Health information technology involves the design, development, and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry. Some benefits of health informatics include improved medical care, lower costs, increased efficiency, reduced errors, improved patient satisfaction, and improved connectivity. The Philippines has taken steps toward health informatics such as developing the Community Health Information Tracking System to digitize patient records and generate reports at rural health units.

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Lesson 4 Overview of Health Informatics Copy 1

Health informatics aims to organize and manage health information using health information technology to improve delivery of health services. Health information technology involves the design, development, and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry. Some benefits of health informatics include improved medical care, lower costs, increased efficiency, reduced errors, improved patient satisfaction, and improved connectivity. The Philippines has taken steps toward health informatics such as developing the Community Health Information Tracking System to digitize patient records and generate reports at rural health units.

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Overview of

Health Informatics
Health Information Technology
• Information age leads to generation of huge amount of
data, which are perplexing to process and analyze.
• Health informatics aims to organize and manage health
information using health information technology to
improve delivery of health services.
• According to Rouse (2016), HEALTH INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY (HIT) is the “area of IT involving the
design, development, creation, use, and
maintenance of information systems for the
health care industry.”
Health Information Technology

HEALTH
INFORMATION HEALTH INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

HEALTH
INFORMATICS
Health Information Technology
Some of the benefits of health informatics includes:
• improved medical care
• lower cost
• increased efficiency
• reduced error
• improved patient satisfaction
• improved connectivity among users and stakeholders
Health Care Software Systems
Fundamental components of health information technology:
1. Electronic Health Record (EHR) or Electronic Medical Record
(EMR)
• patient's official health record in digital form that is shared
across multiple health care provider agencies.
2. Personal Health Record (PHR)
• a person's self-maintained health record
3. Health Information Exchange (HIE)
• health data clearinghouse which is comprised of health care
organizations with interoperability pact to share data
Health Care Software Systems
Two types of health information technology:
1. Picture Archiving and Communication System
(PACS)
2. Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA)

• store and manage patient's medical images


• radiology, cardiology and neurology are among
the largest contributors of medical images
Health Information Ecosystem
• Health Interoperability Ecosystem - a composition of individuals,
systems and processes that share, exchange, and access all forms
of health information, including discrete, narrative, and
multimedia.
• Stakeholders involved in the creation, exchange and use of
health information and/or data includes individuals, patients,
providers, hospital/health systems, researchers, payors, suppliers,
and systems
• An efficient HIE provides an information infrastructure that uses
technical standards, policies, and protocols to enable seamless
and secure capture, discovery, exchange, and utilization of
health information.
• Cloud computing - storing and accessing data
and programs over the Internet instead of your
computer's hard drive
• Currently, 83% of health care organizations are
making use of cloud-based applications.
Advantages of Cloud Technology
1. Integrated and Efficient Patient Care
• cloud technology offers a single access point for
patient information which allows multiple doctors
to review laboratory results or notes on patients
• physicians can spend more time deciding and
performing patient treatment instead of waiting for
information
Advantages of Cloud Technology

2. Better Management of Data


• accumulation of electronic health records will
allow more meaningful data mining that can
better assess the health of the general public
• more data presents opportunities to identify trends
and diseases and crises
Disadvantages of Cloud Technology
1. Potential Risks to Personal Information
• vulnerable to data breaches
• the information contained within medical records
may be subjected to theft or other violations of
privacy and confidentiality
• breaches may be minimized through encryption,
proper data disposal, and other security features
Disadvantages of Cloud Technology
2. Cloud Setup Seems Cumbersome
• the transition from traditional to an automated
system might be difficult for some members of
health care organization that may not be familiar
with the technology
Health Informatics in the Philippines
• Health informatics has been loosely practiced in the
Philippines since the 1980s

Developmental milestones:
• practitioners with access to IBM used word processors to
store information
• introduction of Community Health Information Tracking
System (CHITS)
CHITS
• An electronic medical record (EMR) developed
through the collaboration of IT and health
workers, primarily designed for use in Philippine
Health Centers in disadvantaged areas
• Developed by the National Telehealth Center
(NTHC) to improve health information
management at the RHU level
CHITS
• Built to gather data and generate reports which health
workers need and decision makers require. These
information can be shared to LGUs to improve
responsiveness through an informed decision-making.
• Once installed, CHITS becomes a platform for the facility
to explore other eHealth applications such as
telemedicine and eLearning.
• CHITS is currently utilized in 111 government health
facilities
CHITS: Rationale for the Development
• Varied patient and other health-related data are
collected in rural health units (RHU) on a daily basis
all over the country using a variety of manual,
paper-based methods which are often prone to
error, destruction and alteration.
• Due to the expanse of these data, RHUs are often
rendered data cemeteries.
CHITS: Rationale for the Development
• Consolidation and analysis of these disorganized
data to produce information important to decision
makers is also often impossible.

• Current techniques are tedious and time-


consuming and, hence, produce information
which is stale and irrelevant.
CHITS: Rationale for the Development
• These realities mark public health in the Philippines.
• The country’s geography and lack of resources
compound the problem of data collection and use on
the ground.
• This poor information management system prevents the
development of well-planned and targeted strategies to
combat the Philippines’ health problems, to reduce
inequity in health care access and improve the overall
health of Filipinos, especially those who live in the poorest
and farthest communities.
The rural health unit of Mayorga, Leyte is now paperless with the help of CHITS
Health Informatics in the Philippines
• The implementation of CHITS has resulted in higher
efficiency rate among health workers since more time
can be spent in providing patient care.
• Current issues/barriers to integration of IT in the Philippine
health care system
1. Lack of interest in the field
2. Decision-makers do not employ health informatics in
the health sectors.
3. Large initial expenditure

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