Question

Compare and contrast the various types of Healthcare information. Describe how each are used. Discuss the necessity of aggregating (combining) clinical and financial information to manage healthcare organizations. Why is external information used to assist these organizations?

Answer 1

There are many different types of healthcare information systems, including:

• Operational and tactical systems for easy classification of information.

• Clinical and administrative systems for managing patient details on an administrative level.

• Subject and task based systems such as Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) or Electronic Health Records (EHRs).

• Financial systems for tracking revenue and managing billing submissions.

• The various types of healthcare information with a healthcare provider include -

- Patient biographic and demographic data which includes patient personal information like age, gender, profession etc. This can be used for the identification of Patients and ease of associating future medical records.

Patients basic health information like blood pressure ,blood group ,weight etc.This can be used by understanding basic patient health profile before proceeding with diagnostic test or treatment.

Patients specific health issues and treatments history which includes outpatient visit, inpatient admission, diagnostic reports, prescription provided by doctors etc.

Payment or billing information related to the patient visit or treatment which includes medical Bills and payment.

Q -2) ans: there a one-size-fits-all solution that can aggregate all of a health system’s data from the many disparate source systems,It builds and maintains confidence in data quality, reliability and balance , an adaptive, scalable, flexible enterprise data warehouse (EDW).EDW must be designed to flexibly support the various analytic needs.future treatment planning can be better.

Q-3) ans:  external information is used to more reference analysis to health records.

Internal data alone is not sufficient, however Identifying and addressing a savings or care improvement opportunity requires senior leaders have access to data from external sources as well.

Identifying and addressing a savings or care improvement will increasingly require senior healthcare leaders to turn to important sources of external data to achieve significant savings or identify care improvement opportunities.