Health Information Technology

What is Health Information Technology...

Health Information Technology is a new era on digital technology for your health, all is connected under control on computerized systems, and make it real tools for Improving Healthcare Quality.

Advances in Information technology (IT) involves the exchange of health information in an electronic environment.  Widespread use of health IT within the health care industry will improve the quality of health care, prevent medical errors with accurate data, reduce health care costs, increase administrative efficiencies, decrease paperwork, and expand access to affordable health care.  It is imperative that the privacy and security of electronic health information be ensured as this information is maintained and transmitted electronically.

Health information technology (HIT) provides the umbrella framework to describe the comprehensive management of health information across computerized systems and its secure exchange between consumers, providers, government and quality entities, and insurers. Health information technology (HIT) is in general increasingly viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system.

Some product from Health Information Technology advances is such as Personal Health Records

Personal Health Records

What is Personal Health Records...

Personal Health Record (PHR) is a record with information all about clinical data and your health, provide a complete and accurate summary of an individual's medical history which is accessible online.

"personal health record” is not new sound on the medical world. The earliest mention of the term was in since 57 years ago, on 1956 personal health record has been applied to paper-based for reference is made to a personal health log.

Personal Health Record (PHR) become to popular on 2000, most scientific articles written about PHRs have been published.

Technological advances bring PHR applied to computerized systems. Current usage usually implies an electronic application used to collect and store health data. And keep for easy reference using a computer. And allows you to fully control the health information in your PHR and can get to it anywhere at any time with Internet access. PHRs use secure technology to protect your information from being seen without permission.

It is important to note that PHRs are not the same as electronic health records (EHRs). The latter are software systems designed for use by health care providers. Like the data recorded in paper-based medical records, the data in EHRs are legally mandated notes on the care provided by clinicians to patients. There is no legal mandate that compels a consumer or patient to store her personal health information in a PHR.

Electronic Health Records

What is Electronic Health Records...

An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations.

EHR to support the concept of Health Information Management, which has been existed since the earlier times, along with the development of technology, medical and medicine, from records on the paper to new digital media.

What the function and benefit for us...
All data and information about your health, will recorded into a data digital.

What kind data..? and for what..?
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a Implementation of new technology for your healthy. Yes is a computerised patient record on digital format, digital electronic to record of patient health information generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting. Included in this information are patient demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports.

And the benefit is a accuracy of data for automates improvement and streamlines the clinician's workflow. It makes it much more effective when extracting medical data for the examination of possible trends and long term changes in the individual patients or populations.