Computers have gained popularity in helping the health statistical officer in solving statistical problem and performing statistical processes. It is no longer necessary to spend large amounts of time doing the numerous calculations that are part of a statistical analysis.
Advantages
- Automatic searching or parallel for medically ill person and critical medical information.
- Automatic searching of nationwide databases holding registries of patients with critical problems.
- Automated review of similar patients to determine expected lengths of stay, costs, and rates of complications – allowing better financial forecasting for the hospital and better information for the patient and caregiver.
- Systems will allow the ser to vary easily pull information from vast numbers of patients into spreadsheets, databases, graphing packages to create instant displays of outcome, treatment paths and options.
- Improved communication between multiple providers to reduce the “it slipped through the cracks” syndromes that plague the smooth running of operating rooms.
- Patient care and management – care providers are sing data entry devices to document care given both at the bedside and at central terminals.
- Patient records – compilation of patient or test data, maintenance and retrieval of these records and use of these records for billing and usage and outcome analysis.
- Patient monitoring – by recording patient data on-line and from various tests.
- Exchange of medical data – from the compilation and maintenance of databases.
- Interactive medical education- from database and tutorial software.
- Physician decision making – from the use of patient records and other databases.
- Produce large variety of analysis on data for statistical analysis.
Health Information Management
The recognition of information management to different people and different health offices is vital. The need for specificity in defining boundaries of practice becomes critical.
Information Management
- Covers a brad range of skills, knowledge, and task.
Health Information
- Organization and administration of data information and knowledge effectively through standard process and quality procedures.
Health Information Professional
- Perform a variety of technical health information. Such as organizing, analyzing, and technically evaluating health information; compiling various administrative and health statistics; coding diseases; operations; and procedures and performing utilization review procedures.
Data Management Component
Data Categories
- Clinical data
- Demographic data
- Statistical data
- Financial data
- References
- Research data
- Epidemiology data
Administration of Information
- Strategic planning
- System planning
- Integration of information
- Maintenance of information
- Manage quality and quantity of information
- Organize process and procedures
- Prepare information dissemination
Health Information Officer
- Process information
- Retrieve data
- Store data
- Perform statistical calculation
- Manipulative data
- Analyze data
- Secure data
Resource Information
- Ownership of information
- Information structure
- Content of information
- Component of data
- Information appropriateness
- Correctness of data
- Reliability of data
