ICT can contribute to improving healthcare by helping to obtain, manage, and use information. This includes using electronic patient records, electronic prescriptions, SMS/email for checkups, and online pharmacies. Health smart cards can securely store patient information and support portability. The Medco pharmacy app allows patients to access medication histories and plans. HIT needs to converge data streams from various systems like billing, registration, labs, etc. to drive clinical automation and decision support. The Better Day Health app turns patient data into actionable information for healthcare providers. Medical informatics applications include reminders, expert systems, telemedicine, imaging, and voice recognition.

2. Pradeep Jobanputra

3. Where and how
information and
communication
technology can
contribute to the
improvement of
health care

4. Obtain,
Manage and
Use information
to improve
health care
and medical services
performance,
governance,
management
and
support process.

5. What is INFORMATIONWhat is INFORMATION ??
A billion $ Question
is

6. ?From where do we begin
Information Technology in Healthcare

7. What is in the center for us ?
◦ HOSPITAL or PATIENT….

8. Begin with
Information Technology in
Healthcare
Patient

11. Present Methodology of
Medical assistance to Patient
1.Patient record : Manual
2.Patient Prescription :
manual
3.Periodic checkup after
medical aid: Patient has to
maintain
4.Drug purchase : searches
and purchases from
markets.

12. Transform the Present Methodology
of Medical assistance to Patient
Using ICT
1.Patient record : E-record on smart card
available online or mail.
2.Patient Prescription : pdf format smart
phone/ web view
3.Periodic checkup after medical aid: Use
SMS, e-mails, voice calls
4.Drug purchase : Pharmacy store to
maintain the stocks and ,SMS, e-
mails,B2B Purchase

13. Health Smart Cards
Secure
Save time - money -lives.
Improve - security and privacy of patient
information
Provide - secure carrier for portable
medical records
Reduce - healthcare fraud,
Support - Portability of medical records,
Provide - secure access to emergency
medical information,
Enable - compliance with government
initiatives
Helps - administrative process and
claiming speed.

14. The Medco Pharmacy
mobile app is built on
Medco's My Rx Choices
prescription savings and
patient safety program,
To use the app, patients
must first register at
the Medco website.
Once registered, their
medication histories and
drug plans are made
available online.

20. Where HIT Needs To Be
I/P Lab
System
Radiology
System
Hosp. Billing
System
Pt. Registration
System
Hospital
Interface
I/P Pharmacy
System
O/P Pharmacy
Systems
Home Health
System
O/P Lab
System
Elec. Med.
Record
Office Billing
System
MD Office
Interface
Pt. Reported
Data
(On-Line Dx)
(QOL Data)
(Compliance)
Master
Interface
Engine

25. Converging Data Streams ShouldConverging Data Streams Should
Drive Clinical AutomationDrive Clinical Automation
Computerized
Patient Record
Consumer
Decision Support
Clinical
Decision Support
SOURCE: Health Futures, Inc.
Molecular
(Genetic character
of self-pathogens)
Organ Systems
(Anatomic detail)
Interventions
(Orders, meds,
procedures)
Tissues
(Metabolism,
pathology)
Cellular
(Types, counts,
receptors)

30. Better Day Health
The Better Day Health app is a
Web-based, patient-centered
health and practice
management software platform
that is designed to drive
improvements in patient care
quality, coordination, and
collaboration. The platform was
developed by VoiceHIT, and it
combines predictive modeling
and third-party applications and
devices to turn patient data into
actionable information.It is
primarily used by healthcare pro

31. Medical InformaticsMedical Informatics
ApplicationsApplications
Automated reminders
Computerized expert
systems
Telemedicine
Tele Surgery
Digital imaging
Voice recognition
Medical InformaticsMedical Informatics

32. Future Consultant’s Office:Future Consultant’s Office:
CT Scan, MR Imaging,
Infrared and Near Infrared
Scanners, Holographic Image
of Patient (Medical Avtar),
Surgical Simulators, and
Intraoperative Navigation
Medical InformaticsMedical Informatics

33. Medical InformaticsMedical Informatics

34. Virtual Reality SimulatorsVirtual Reality Simulators
Training in Surgical Procedures
Master the Surgical Skills before Operating
Monitor the Actions of Resident Surgeons
during surgery

36. Intraoperative Navigation

37. Expert system
 Expert Systems
Encoding the knowledge of human experts and
applying it in goal-directed reasoning
Neural Networks, Machine Learning in biomedical
domains
Medical InformaticsMedical Informatics

38. Anatomy of an expert system
Knowledge base
Inference engineBlackboard
language
processor
justifier
facts
rules
interpreter
scheduler
consistency
enforcer
plan
agenda
solution
USER
Medical InformaticsMedical Informatics

39. Expert Systems
◦Examples:
Medical Diagnosis
Event monitoring in clinical
systems - decision support via
Medical Logic Modules
Genetic motif detection in
molecular sequence and
molecular structure databases

40. Bioinformatics
◦Molecular sequence and
structure databases
◦Similarity (homology)
detection
Correlation of molecular
and clinical events

41. Interactive, Immediate and Specific
Feedback, Individually Tailored Instruction,
Objective Testing, and Entertaining
Self-Directed Learning
Discretion of Content, Time, Place, and
Pace of Instruction.
One’s Own Level of Knowledge, Specific to
Problem-Solving

42. On-Line Discussion Groups -
Difficult Cases
On-Line Journal Clubs
CME
Scientific Posters
Telemedicine
Streaming

45. Research & Manuscript Preparation
Patient Care & Clinical Problem
Solving
Lower the Hospital Cost with Short
Stay
Choose Diagnostic Tests
Select and Implement Best
Treatment Plan
Easy, Effective, Efficient, and
Economical

46. Medical InformaticsMedical Informatics