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Definition and Purpose Explain each term in your own words using complete sentences. (2013) Application of data mining: Diabetes health care in young and old patients. Journal of King Saud University -- Computer and Information Sciences 25:127-36. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319157812000390
Health Care Example Identify an example of each term and discuss how it is used in a health care setting.
References Provide two APA formatted references to support your claims for each term.
Clinical decision support ?
Clinical decision support or CDS is a way of organizing and utilizing information and patient-specific knowledge, streamlined for utility and employed under the right circumstances, to improve the health care that is provided and to improve the health of the patient.
CDS in a health care setting can include a variety of things, such as technology to provide reminders or alerts for patients or providers, or also data reports, and relevant information
Garg, AX, Adhikhari, NKJ, et al. (2005) Effects of computerized clinical decision support systems on practitioner performance and patient outcomes: A systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Association 293: 1223-1238. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=200503
Hunt, DL, Haynes, RB, et al. (1998) Effects of computer-based clinical decision support systems on physician performance and patient outcomes: A systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Association 280: 1339-1346. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9794315
Data management ?
1. Data management is the practice of collection, analysis, interpretation, and utilization of data for specific goals.
2. In health care, data management can be used to analyze how health care is being provided, to adjust its provision to maximize effect, and to evaluate outcomes.
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HRSA (Health Resources Service Administration). (2016) Managing data for performance improvement. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.hrsa.gov/quality/toolbox/methodology/performanceimprovement/
Ryan, GW, Bernard, HR. (2000) Data management and analysis methods. In Densin, N and Lincoln Y (eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research, 769-802. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20000033.html
Data mining ?
1. Data mining is the utilization of large quantities of information for analysis to improve large-scale systems and tactics.
2. In health care, data mining can be used to analyze any kind of system that produces data -- not on the individual patient level, but on the level of entire
Koh HC, Tan G. (2005) Data mining applications in healthcare. Journal of Healthcare Information Management 19: 64-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15869215
Databases ?
1. Databases are large amounts of information stored electronically and organized in relevant categories.
2 In health care, databases can be used to evaluate all kinds of different issues, from epidemiology to individual ward performance in a hospital.
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Kollef, MH, Shorr, A, et al. (2005). Epidemiology and outcomes of healthcare-associated pneumonia: Results from a large U.S. database of culture-positive pneumonia. Chest Journal: Official Publication of the American College of Chest Physicians 128: 3854-3862. doi:10.1378/chest.128.6.3854
Wiederhold, G. (1981) Databases for health care. Berlin: Springer.
Electronic health record (EHR) and EMR ?
1 Electronic health record or EHR is a longitudinal electronic record of patient helath information generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting. An electronic medical record is a digital version of the paper chart containing a patient's medical history from one practice.
2 EHR and EMR are both vitally important in terms of providing a complete history of a patient's conditions and care. The EHR contains more information overall.
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Garets. D. Davis, M. (2006) Electronic medical records vs. electronic health records: Yes, there is a difference. Chicago: HIMSS Analytics. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=http://cdn.medicexchange.com/images/whitepaper/emrvs.ehr.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm2cSWp21ZquS3XtuTRo88DxN6RLIw&nossl=1&oi=scholarr
Hsiao, C, Hing, E (2012) Use and characteristics of electronic health record systems among office-based physician practices: United States, 2001-2012. NCHS Data Brief 111. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db111.htm
Hardware ?
1 Hardware is the physical electronic operating systems, ranging from a personal computer to an MRI machine. It differs from software, which are individual applications that can be used on a piece of hardware.
2 Hardware is important in healthcare because providers…
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Healthcare Policy Systems: Hong Kong, Australia VOUCHERS FOR THE ELDERLY Healthcare Policy Systems in Hong Kong and Australia Primary Health Care for the Elderly in Hong Kong Primary care is the starting point in the healthcare process (PCO, 2011). A good one is made available to the public for a comprehensive, holistic, coordinated and in locations accessible to where people live or work. It also provides preventive care and optimal disease management. In Hong
A patchwork of laws provided narrow privacy protections for selected health data and certain keepers of that data." (Administrative Simplification in the Health Care Industry) Therefore, new technologies such as relational databases have simplified the data gathering and maintenance processes of all types of healthcare related data like the physician information process. It is not unheard of today for healthcare and insurance providers matching or 'sinking data' on a
Surgeons in Canada report that, for heart patients, the danger of dying on the waiting list now exceeds the danger of dying on the operating table. Emergency rooms there are so overcrowded that patients awaiting treatment frequently line the corridors. Not only is there a long wait for care, but care is frequently denied to patients who prognosis is poor. In Britain kidney dialysis is generally denied patients over
Health Care Management Obstacles to change in Health Care management. There are a nearly infinite number of things that can go wrong for a health care manager, and out of the two major problems that can arise, staff relationship problems and stresses over financial constraints, the more trying of the two managing the financial interests of the facility within the constraints from senior staff and management. The health care facility is in
Healthcare in Marketing (Lasik) Lasik's Methods in Other Health Care Organizations Customer profiling is a vastly unexplored marketing method in the health industry. While it has been used to target very specific markets, such as potential consumers of elective surgery, other markets have been largely neglected (Barber 2001). The reasons for this are many, but mostly they include difficulties with medical data gathering, and legal issues regarding potential customer profiling. Despite the above-mentioned
Contracts with doctors often contain a clause which doesn't allow the doctors to discuss Health care 7 with their patients financial incentives to deny treatment or about treatments not covered by the plan (Glazer, 1996). This has caused many consumers, especially those with chronic illnesses, to form organizations with the American Medical Association and physician specialty groups to promote legislation forbidding "gag rules" (Glazer, 1996). One group, Citizen Action, has