healthcare interoperability and standards
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Healthcare Interoperability
and Standards: Making different applications talk
Rene James P. Balandra Jr.
MS Health Informatics (Bioinformatics Track)
HI 201 – Overview of Health Informatics
Driving Question
How can healthcare
institutions adopt
standards to
ensure
interoperability?
Assumptions
• All organizations and systems DO NOT SHARE a common
platform or database.They are all disparate systems that need to
share information.
• There are NO Funding, Staffing or Technology problems or
challenges. All projects have all the money they need. All projects
have the correct staffing number and skills. All hardware, software
and connections work perfectly.
• Just focus on INTEROPERABILITY REQUIREMENTS.
Scenario
• Scenario 4:
Several city and municipal health units in Zamboanga have a
basic EMR called BasicHealth. DOH wants to get all cases of
Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Cancer for their national
registry. The DOH registry is an online system using software
called RegistryTech.
Why Scenario 4?
• Among the five scenarios to choose from, the scenario above is
the one I’m most familiar with. As stated in a previous post, my
work with the National Telehealth Center exposed me to the
intricacies of our local public health sector. Coming into MSHI with
an IT background, I also lack knowledge and practical experience
in order to expound on any of the other possible scenarios.
Organizations Involved
• Department Of Health
• Regional Center for Health
Development
• Provincial Health Office
• Municipal Health Office/Rural Health
Unit
– Barangay Health Stations
Applications Involved
• BasicHealth
• RegistryTech
• Interoperability System
Interoperability Project Goals
• Workload Prioritization
• Faster information flow
• Accuracy and Quality Data
• Use of Standards
Workload Prioritization
• More working hours in the practice
of health care as opposed to
writing and making reports
• Encode only once; Use many
times.
Faster information flow
• Information flow as soon as a
patient comes in and is
reported.
• Seeing the data trends and
discrepancies the earliest
time possible.
Accuracy and Quality Data
• Duplication of patients will also be
lessened
• Restrictions in inputting data to
check the validity of the data
before it enters the system
• Easier verification due to faster
means to identify and isolate
scrupulous data.
Use of Standards
• Make sure that both systems are
referring to the same thing
– ICD-10 Codes
– Philippine National Drug
Formulary (PNDF)
– Health Facility Codes
Data Elements To be Transferred
– Patient Information
• Birthday
• Sex
– Observations including but
not limited to the ff:
• Diagnosis
• Patient History related to the hypertension, diabetes
mellitus and cancer diseases
• Risk Factors related to the hypertension, diabetes
mellitus and cancer diseases
• Medication History
Flow Of Information
• Trigger Event:
Information and data
will be transferred as
soon as the patient has
concluded his consult
and all his information
had been entered into
BasicHealth.
Thank you!