Medical informatics

Introduction The medical world as we know today has rapidly changed primarily by incorporating the newest technology into patient management. One of the most deeply interconnected with technology is the field of radiology. New technologies are introduced in every year. This paper will discuss the impact of digitisation of radiological examination and the use of Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) in revolutioning the radiology practice. Diagnostic Accuracy Diagnostic accuracy may…

Healthcare information system is a “computer hardware and software dedicated to the collection, storage, processing, retrieval, and communication of patient care information in a healthcare organization.” (Hebda, 2013, p. 580) T Healthcare information system is a crucial component to today’s health care. There has been a major advancement in the way we keep track of patient information. In addition to healthcare information system, hospital information system is a “group of information systems…

Many health care providers now give patients access to their medical records by online health portals. These online health portals offer information such as notices of when they are due for wellness visits, information on screening tests, immunization histories and lab results. Online health portals also provide…

technology, so is the adoption of the electronic medical records system in healthcare facilities. In fact in 2013, “nearly six in ten (59%) hospitals have adopted at least a Basic Electronic Health Records system, an increase of 34% from 2012 to 2013 and a five-fold increase since 2008. Over nine in ten (93%) hospitals possessed a certified EHR technology in 2013, increasing by 29% since 2011” (Charles, Gabriel, & Furukawa, 2014). While the electronic medical record is progressing in adoption…

patients and to improve access to health services that always not available in far rural communities. It is also used to secure lives in a serious care and urgent condition. Today, it involves the use of electronic communication and software to deliver medical services to patient without an in person visit. Overall strength of telemedicine in a rural setting are; it saves life in terms of emergency where there no body around to take the person to the hospital. Cost of health care has reduced…

National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is charged with encouraging adoption of EHR technology, as envisioned in the 2009 American Reinvestment & Recovery Act (ARRA). The vision of the ONC is that with this transformed health delivery system: • Medical errors will be reduced •…

In order to improve the quality of services provided and reduce overall costs in healthcare, business process should be optimised. While there are several alternatives that can be used to do this, simulation stands out as one of the better ones. Computer simulation is intuitive; it allows the modeler to keep visual track of the created objects and processes. Use of drag and drop tools during the creation of simulation models also simplifies the process, allowing those with minimal programing…

Electronic health records have been a significant change to health care systems and continue to rise across the nation. Patient histories, treatments, orders and medications were handwritten before the use of electronic medical records placing a significant risk for errors due to the illegibility of handwritten orders. Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) allows physicians to enter orders electronically, which helps prevent medication errors in such ways that data can be filled in legibly…

Telehealth and telemedicine are using interchangeably. Nevertheless, telehealth focuses on big domain of related health services for example, patient care, but telemedicine represent direct clinical services. To increase the value of health care the quality should be improved and the cost should be reduced these two goals could be achieved by unifying telehealth and traditional health care. (IOM) observes that health care field is the most complex business. The integration required huge…

The world of technology has drastically changed in the past twenty years. We went from having less than a handful of sources to communicate to multiple communication tools, we can now get our education medicine and shop from home unlike before where people had to go miles to seek education and more shopping variety, not only that but having access to telemedicine and talking to your physician online became fairly popular in the past years. Telemedicine has been successful in providing health…