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Difference between EMR & EHR
History & Background
HIS- Hospital Information System
LIS - Laboratory Information system
PM - (PMS) Practice Management System
PHR - Personal Health Record
HIE - Health Information Exchange
Why use technology in healthcare? Why has it been slowly adopted?
Why EHR? Where are we at in its evolution?
Discussion: What technologies do you use in your organization? What are you
considering?
 

Triple Aim:

• Better care for individuals
• Better health for the population
• Lower cost through improvement

Shift in EHR Adoption
Changing trends in EMR and its future
Mobile
Cloud
Big Data
Analytics
 

Sinister / parasitic

• Control over 1/7th of the economy
• Easier to convict fraud/abuse
• Governmental agencies get the ability to access your info

Should government be involved?

• Positive
• Negative

EHRs and healthcare interoperability: The challenges, complexities,
opportunities and reality

• Interoperability -Exchange of information/data across platforms/applications/devices
  • Lab - As true data not “pictures of the reports”
  • Imaging
  • Referrals (incoming and outgoing)
  • ePrecription
  • Health Ministry (local,regional, national), i.e. diseases outbreaks (eg: ebola case)
  • Devices (EKG, spirometer, glucometer, Holter, etc.)
  • Chart Notes, Other Health Data
• MEDTECH
• EHR Safety Alerts
• FDA’s Role

Open Discussion: How Do You Handle Government Regulations?
 

What’s the ROI for Healthcare IT Purchases?

• Does Health IT need an ROI or is it a required “utility” in today’s healthcare?

Using EHR as an ROI Case Study
EHR Costs

• Obvious Costs
• Forgotten EHR Software Costs
• Forgotten EHR Hardware Costs

EHR Benefits

• Simple/Guaranteed EHR Benefit Calculations
• Harder/Debatable EHR Benefit Calculations

Vendor flexibility/capability

• interfaces to outside systems (dictation, accounting,document management...)
• FHIR Interoperability (API)
• Makes Use of public domain data

Is Your Vendor Forward Thinking

• Solves tomorrow’s problems before they become today’s crisis

Interoperability and Standards

• Interoperability vs Integration (PACS, HL7, FHIR, DIRECT, APIs, etc)

What about free/open source software?
Health IT Contracting
Will You Ever Need to Switch Companies?

• What can you do now in case you have to switch companies later?

Implications for clinical decision support system
Enabling patient access transformation in the new health economy
Enhancing the patient’s digital journey

• Wired Hospital

Information Mobility and Communication

• Mobility-Doctor Patient Relationship and Patient Care & Delivery

Accountable care and meaningful use

• Should the middle east adopt it?
• How does the US meaningful use and ACO impact the middle east?

What is personalized medicine and Precision Medicine?

• FHIR and SmartApps
• Patient Portals
• Patient Experience
• Sensors
• Implantables

Building a Culture of Security

• More than HIPAA

External Breaches

• Ransomware

Internal Breaches
Business Continuity
Disaster Recovery
Security Case Studies and Discussion on Best Practices
 

Patient Engagement
Patient Portals
Secure Text
ChatBots
“Retail” like experiences
Telemedicine
3D Printing
Virtual Reality
Healthcare Analytics
Genomic Medicine, Proteonmics, Human Biome
People vs Technology

• Major challenges and problems
• Lessons learned
• Existing systems deficiencies
• Systems compatibility with future development
• IPreparing staff and management for shift of technology
• Status of EMR/EHR implementation in the region
• Investigate the existing disparities
• Latest Development in public & private sector
• Innovation
• Future trends & objectives

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