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| HL7 and Healthcare Industry |
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What does the acronym HL7 stand for? HL7 stands for Health Level Seven. It is an all-volunteer non-profit organization which works towards the development of the international healthcare standards. This organization was founded in the year 1987 in order to produce a standard for the different hospital information systems. The organization named HL7, Inc. was accredited in 1994 by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). |
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| Improving Clinical Practice with Clinical Decision Support Systems |
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What are clinical decision support systems (CDSS) and how can they contribute towards improving the clinical practice? Let us understand the importance of an appropriately made clinical decision support system contribution towards improving clinical practice. CDSS may be described as interactive computer programs. If you are a clinician yourself, these systems can be effectively used by you in order to assist you in decision-making tasks. |
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| Hospital Information Systems – The Challenges Involved |
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With increasing and evolving needs linked to the growing healthcare industry, implementation of the hospital information systems which can keep up with the pace is becoming increasingly important and prevalent. These hospital systems can lead to a lot of benefits by ensuring and streamlining the different operations at a healthcare facility. Thus, medical practice is transforming from the automation of the manual processes to implementation of greater technology advancements. |
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| Patient Portals - Targeting Patient Care |
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What are patient portals? Are they related to personal health records? What are the different applications that these portals have in targeting patient care?In order to answer all these questions, let us understand the role played by patient portals in healthcare industry in detail. Patient portals are internet based and they allow the patients to interact with their healthcare providers and physicians, etc. It is also possible for the patients to maintain their healthcare records through these patient portals. |
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| CCHIT and Healthcare Industry |
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What does CCHIT stand for? Is it an authority, an organization? What is it? CCHIT stands for Certification Commission for Health Information technology. It is a private not-for-profit organization. What is the role played by this organization? The organization primarily serves as a recognized US certification authority and plays the role of certifying the different electronic health records and their networks. Let me explain the different objective of CCHIT as an organization. |
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| Health Informatics – A Way to Manage Health |
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In the field of healthcare management, the doctors are not just asking for the information but also for adequate support, guidance, affirmation and feedback. In order to ensure all, they require a system which allows them to access their patient records and provide them relevant medical knowledge which is valid and authentic related to their patient problem and it should be accessed very quickly with minimal effort. Thus health informatics is a way in which physicians can keep up with objectives with respect to medical care. Health informatics is extremely fast, portable and convenient way of accessing a large database of medical knowledge as well as patient records. |
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| Importance of Health 2.0 |
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Have you ever come across Health 2.0 in your healthcare practice? What does it exactly encompass? Health 2.0 is a concept which is closely related to Medicine 2.0. The online health space has been growing exponentially within the past years. It comprises a specific set of different web tools used by participants in the field of healthcare such as doctors, patients, scientists, etc. These web tools may include podcasts, blogs, tagging, wikis, search, etc. |
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