- Healthcare information systems should be instilled with optimized safety and quality improvement tools and are an integral part of regular operations for all healthcare organizations, clinicians, patients and community members.
- To achieve this requires targets, measurement, evaluation, and monitoring
- All entities that use, send, or store health information should meet requirements for confidentiality, integrity, availability and accountability based on sound risk management practices, using recognized standards and protocols
- Privacy
- Security
- Legislation – Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) in Ontario; Federal Government’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
- Patient consent
Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Management - Clinical Decision Support (CDS)
- Providing clinicians or patients with clinical knowledge and patient-related information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance patient care.
- E.g.
- Simple facts and relationships to best practices for managing patients with specific disease states
- New medical knowledge from clinical research and other types of information
- Analysis of data collected from large sets of patients to monitor and improve the state of community health
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