This document discusses health IT in clinical settings and provides 3 key points:
1. IT implementation success depends on factors like business-IT alignment, understanding the local organizational context, and focusing on real goals rather than IT as the end goal.
2. Examples of important hospital IT systems include EHRs, CPOE, clinical decision support systems, imaging applications like PACS, and pharmacy applications. Key issues involve usability, integration, and change management.
3. While health IT and "smart" machines offer benefits, clinical judgment is still necessary given variability in patients and medicine. The goal is high quality, patient-centered care; technology should improve information and processes, not replace humans. Unint
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Dr Hans Groth, Chairman of the Board, World Demographic & Ageing Forum
Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Founder and Chair, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute and co-chair, World Health Summit Council
Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, Director, Country Health Policies and Systems Division, World Health Organisation EURO
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Stewardship is the act of taking good care of something.
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
WHO launched the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) in 2015 to fill knowledge gaps and inform strategies at all levels.
ACCORDING TO apic.org,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
ACCORDING TO pewtrusts.org,
Antibiotic stewardship refers to efforts in doctors’ offices, hospitals, long term care facilities, and other health care settings to ensure that antibiotics are used only when necessary and appropriate
According to WHO,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a systematic approach to educate and support health care professionals to follow evidence-based guidelines for prescribing and administering antimicrobials
In 1996, John McGowan and Dale Gerding first applied the term antimicrobial stewardship, where they suggested a causal association between antimicrobial agent use and resistance. They also focused on the urgency of large-scale controlled trials of antimicrobial-use regulation employing sophisticated epidemiologic methods, molecular typing, and precise resistance mechanism analysis.
Antimicrobial Stewardship(AMS) refers to the optimal selection, dosing, and duration of antimicrobial treatment resulting in the best clinical outcome with minimal side effects to the patients and minimal impact on subsequent resistance.
According to the 2019 report, in the US, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur each year, and more than 35000 people die. In addition to this, it also mentioned that 223,900 cases of Clostridoides difficile occurred in 2017, of which 12800 people died. The report did not include viruses or parasites
VISION
Being proactive
Supporting optimal animal and human health
Exploring ways to reduce overall use of antimicrobials
Using the drugs that prevent and treat disease by killing microscopic organisms in a responsible way
GOAL
to prevent the generation and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Doing so will preserve the effectiveness of these drugs in animals and humans for years to come.
being to preserve human and animal health and the effectiveness of antimicrobial medications.
to implement a multidisciplinary approach in assembling a stewardship team to include an infectious disease physician, a clinical pharmacist with infectious diseases training, infection preventionist, and a close collaboration with the staff in the clinical microbiology laboratory
to prevent antimicrobial overuse, misuse and abuse.
to minimize the developme
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Growing Prevalence of Lifestyle Diseases
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One of the most developed cities of India, the city of Chennai is the capital of Tamilnadu and many people from different parts of India come here to earn their bread and butter. Being a metropolitan, the city is filled with towering building and beaches but the sad part as with almost every Indian city
Defecation
Normal defecation begins with movement in the left colon, moving stool toward the anus. When stool reaches the rectum, the distention causes relaxation of the internal sphincter and an awareness of the need to defecate. At the time of defecation, the external sphincter relaxes, and abdominal muscles contract, increasing intrarectal pressure and forcing the stool out
The Valsalva maneuver exerts pressure to expel faeces through a voluntary contraction of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced expiration against a closed airway. Patients with cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, increased intracranial pressure, or a new surgical wound are at greater risk for cardiac dysrhythmias and elevated blood pressure with the Valsalva maneuver and need to avoid straining to pass the stool.
Normal defecation is painless, resulting in passage of soft, formed stool
CONSTIPATION
Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. Improper diet, reduced fluid intake, lack of exercise, and certain medications can cause constipation. For example, patients receiving opiates for pain after surgery often require a stool softener or laxative to prevent constipation. The signs of constipation include infrequent bowel movements (less than every 3 days), difficulty passing stools, excessive straining, inability to defecate at will, and hard feaces
IMPACTION
Fecal impaction results from unrelieved constipation. It is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. In cases of severe impaction the mass extends up into the sigmoid colon.
DIARRHEA
Diarrhea is an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. It is associated with disorders affecting digestion, absorption, and secretion in the GI tract. Intestinal contents pass through the small and large intestine too quickly to allow for the usual absorption of fluid and nutrients. Irritation within the colon results in increased mucus secretion. As a result, feces become watery, and the patient is unable to control the urge to defecate. Normally an anal bag is safe and effective in long-term treatment of patients with fecal incontinence at home, in hospice, or in the hospital. Fecal incontinence is expensive and a potentially dangerous condition in terms of contamination and risk of skin ulceration
HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. They are either external or internal.
FLATULENCE
As gas accumulates in the lumen of the intestines, the bowel wall stretches and distends (flatulence). It is a common cause of abdominal fullness, pain, and cramping. Normally intestinal gas escapes through the mouth (belching) or the anus (passing of flatus)
FECAL INCONTINENCE
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. Incontinence harms a patient’s body image
PREPARATION AND GIVING OF LAXATIVESACCORDING TO POTTER AND PERRY,
An enema is the instillation of a solution into the rectum and sig
1. Health IT in Clinical Settings
Nawanan Theera-Ampornpunt, MD, PhD
For Ramathibodi M.S. & Ph.D. Programs in Data Science for Healthcare & Clinical Informatics
October 12, 2020 SlideShare.net/Nawanan
Except where
citing other works
2. IT Decision Making in Hospitals: Key Points
• Depends on local context
• IT is not alone -> Business-IT alignment/integration
• “Know your organization”
• View IT as a tool for something else, not the
end goal by itself
• Focus on the real goals (what define “success”)
4. Success of IT Implementation
System Quality
• System performance (response time, reliability)
• Accuracy, error rate
• Flexibility
• Ease of use
• Accessibility
5. Success of IT Implementation
Information Quality
• Accuracy
• Currency, timeliness
• Reliability
• Completeness
• Relevance
• Usefulness
6. Success of IT Implementation
Use
• Subjective (e.g. asks a user “How often do you use the
system?”)
• Objective (e.g. number of orders done electronically)
User Satisfaction
• Satisfaction toward system/information
• Satisfaction toward use
7. Success of IT Implementation
Individual Impacts
• Efficiency/productivity of the user
• Quality of clinical operations/decision-making
Organizational Impacts
• Faster operations, cost & time savings
• Better quality of care, better aggregate outcomes
• Reputation, increased market share
• Increased service volume or patient retention
15. Master Patient Index (MPI)
• A hospital’s list of all patients
• Functions
– Registration/identification of patients (HN/MRN)
– Captures/updates patient demographics
– Used in virtually all other hospital service applications
• Issues
– A large database
– Interface with other systems
– Duplicate resolutions
– Accuracy & currency of patient information
– Language issues
16. Admission-Discharge-Transfer (ADT)
• Functions
– Supports Admission, Discharge & Transfer of patients
(“patient management”)
– Provides status/location of admitted patients
– Used in assessing bed occupancy
– Linked to billing, claims & reimbursements
• Issues
– Accuracy & currency of patient status/location
– Handling of exceptions (e.g. patient overflows, escaped
patients, home leaves, discharged but not yet departed,
missing discharge information)
– Input of important information (diagnoses, D/C summary)
– Links between OPD, IPD, ER & OR
17. EHRs & HIS
The Challenge - Knowing What It Means
Electronic Medical
Records (EMRs)
Computer-Based
Patient Records
(CPRs)
Electronic Patient
Records (EPRs)
Electronic Health
Records (EHRs)
Personal Health
Records (PHRs)
Hospital
Information
System (HIS)
Clinical
Information
System (CIS)
18. EHRs
Commonly Accepted Definitions
• Electronic documentation of patient care by providers
• Provider has direct control of information in EHRs
• Synonymous with EMRs, EPRs, CPRs
• Sometimes defined as a patient’s longitudinal records over
several “episodes of care” & “encounters” (visits)
19. EHR Systems
Are they just a system that allows electronic documentation of
clinical care?
Or do they have other values?
Diag-
nosis
History
& PE
Treat-
ments
...
20. Documented Benefits of Health IT
• Literature suggests improvement through
– Guideline adherence (Shiffman et al, 1999;Chaudhry et al, 2006)
– Better documentation (Shiffman et al, 1999)
– Practitioner decision making or process of care
(Balas et al, 1996;Kaushal et al, 2003;Garg et al, 2005)
– Medication safety
(Kaushal et al, 2003;Chaudhry et al, 2006;van Rosse et al, 2009)
– Patient surveillance & monitoring (Chaudhry et al, 2006)
– Patient education/reminder (Balas et al, 1996)
– Cost savings and better financial performance
(Parente & Dunbar, 2001;Chaudhry et al, 2006;Amarasingham et al, 2009;
Borzekowski, 2009)
21. Functions that Should Be Part of EHR Systems
• Computerized Medication Order Entry (IOM, 2003; Blumenthal et al, 2006)
• Computerized Laboratory Order Entry (IOM, 2003)
• Computerized Laboratory Results (IOM, 2003)
• Physician Notes (IOM, 2003)
• Patient Demographics (Blumenthal et al, 2006)
• Problem Lists (Blumenthal et al, 2006)
• Medication Lists (Blumenthal et al, 2006)
• Discharge Summaries (Blumenthal et al, 2006)
• Diagnostic Test Results (Blumenthal et al, 2006)
• Radiologic Reports (Blumenthal et al, 2006)
22. EHR Systems/HIS: Issues
• Functionality & workflow considerations
• Structure & format of data entry
– Free text vs structured data forms
– Usability
– Use of standards & vocabularies (e.g. ICD-10, SNOMED CT)
– Templates (e.g. standard narratives, order sets)
– Level of customization per hospital, specialty, location, group, clinician
– Reduced clinical value due to over-documentation (e.g. medico-legal, HA)
– Special documents (e.g. operative notes, anesthetic notes)
– Integration with paper systems (e.g. scanned MRs, legal documents)
• Reliability & contingency/business continuity planning
• Roll-out strategies & change management
• Interfaces
23. Computerized (Physician/Provider) Order Entry
Functions
• Physician directly enters
medication/lab/diagnostic/imaging orders
online
• Nurse & pharmacy process orders
accordingly
• Maybe considered part of an EHR/HIS
system
24. Values
• No handwriting!!!
• Structured data entry: Completeness, clarity,
fewer mistakes (?)
• No transcription errors!
• Streamlines workflow, increases efficiency
Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
25. Computerized (Physician/Provider) Order Entry
Issues
• “Physician as a clerk” frustration
• Usability -> Reduced physician productivity?
• Unclear value proposition for physician?
• Complexity of medication data structure
• Integration of medication, lab, diagnostic, imaging &other orders
• Roll-out strategies & change management
Washington Post (March 21, 2005)
“One of the most important lessons learned to date is that the complexity
of human change management may be easily underestimated”
Langberg ML (2003) in “Challenges to implementing CPOE: a case study of a work in progress at Cedars-Sinai”
26. Nursing Applications
Functions
• Documents nursing assessments, interventions & outcomes
• Facilitates charting & vital sign recording
• Utilizes standards in nursing informatics
• Populates and documents care-planning
• Risk/incident management
• etc.
Issues
• Minimizing workflow/productivity impacts
• Goal: Better documentation vs. better care?
• Evolving standards in nursing practice
• Change management
27. Pharmacy Applications
Functions
• Streamlines workflow from medication orders to dispensing and
billing
• Reduces medication errors, improves medication safety
• Improves inventory management
28. Stages of Medication Process &
Closed Loop Medication Management
Ordering Transcription Dispensing Administration
CPOE
Automatic
Medication
Dispensing
Electronic
Medication
Administration
Records
(e-MAR)
Barcoded
Medication
Administration
Barcoded
Medication
Dispensing
29. Pharmacy Applications
Issues
• Who enters medication orders into electronic format at which
stage?
• Unintended consequences
• “Power shifts”
• Handling exceptions (e.g. countersigns, verbal orders,
emergencies, formulary replacements, drug shortages)
• Choosing the right technology for the hospital
• Goal: Workflow facilitation vs. medication safety?
30. Imaging Applications
Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)
• Captures, archives, and displays electronic images captured from
imaging modalities (DICOM format)
• Often refers to radiologic images but sometimes used in other
settings as well (e.g. cardiology, endoscopy, pathology,
ophthalmology)
• Values: reduces space, costs of films, loss of films, parallel
viewing, remote access, image processing & manipulation,
referrals
Radiology Information System (RIS) or Workflow Management
• Supports workflow of the radiology department, including patient
registration, appointments & scheduling, consultations, imaging
reports, etc.
31. • The real place where most of the
values of health IT can be achieved
– Expert systems
• Based on artificial intelligence,
machine learning, rules, or
statistics
• Examples: differential
diagnoses, treatment options(Shortliffe, 1976)
Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS)
32. – Alerts & reminders
• Based on specified logical conditions
• Examples:
–Drug-allergy checks
–Drug-drug interaction checks
–Reminders for preventive services
–Clinical practice guideline integration
Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS)
34. • Reference information or evidence-
based knowledge sources
–Drug reference databases
–Textbooks & journals
–Online literature (e.g. PubMed)
–Tools that help users easily access
references (e.g. Infobuttons)
More CDS Examples
36. • Pre-defined documents
–Order sets, personalized “favorites”
–Templates for clinical notes
–Checklists
–Forms
• Can be either computer-based or
paper-based
Other CDS Examples
38. • Simple UI designed to help clinical
decision making
–Abnormal lab highlights
–Graphs/visualizations for lab results
–Filters & sorting functions
Other CDS Examples
40. External Memory
Knowledge Data
Long Term Memory
Knowledge Data
Inference
DECISION
PATIENT
Perception
Attention
Working
Memory
CLINICIAN
Elson, Faughnan & Connelly (1997)
Clinical Decision Making
41. External Memory
Knowledge Data
Long Term Memory
Knowledge Data
Inference
DECISION
PATIENT
Perception
Attention
Working
Memory
CLINICIAN
Elson, Faughnan & Connelly (1997)
Clinical Decision Making
Abnormal lab
highlights
42. External Memory
Knowledge Data
Long Term Memory
Knowledge Data
Inference
DECISION
PATIENT
Perception
Attention
Working
Memory
CLINICIAN
Elson, Faughnan & Connelly (1997)
Clinical Decision Making
Drug-Allergy
Checks
43. External Memory
Knowledge Data
Long Term Memory
Knowledge Data
Inference
DECISION
PATIENT
Perception
Attention
Working
Memory
CLINICIAN
Elson, Faughnan & Connelly (1997)
Clinical Decision Making
Drug-Drug
Interaction
Checks
44. External Memory
Knowledge Data
Long Term Memory
Knowledge Data
Inference
DECISION
PATIENT
Perception
Attention
Working
Memory
CLINICIAN
Elson, Faughnan & Connelly (1997)
Clinical Decision Making
Clinical
Practice
Guideline
Reminders
45. External Memory
Knowledge Data
Long Term Memory
Knowledge Data
Inference
DECISION
PATIENT
Perception
Attention
Working
Memory
CLINICIAN
Elson, Faughnan & Connelly (1997)
Clinical Decision Making
Diagnostic/Treatment
Expert Systems
46. What words come to mind when you hear...
Digital Health
Transformation
53. “Big data is like teenage sex:
everyone talks about it,
nobody really knows how to do it,
everyone thinks everyone else is doing it,
so everyone claims they are doing it...”
-- Dan Ariely @danariely (2013)
Substitute “Big data” with “AI”, “Blockchain”, “IoT”
of your choice.
-- Nawanan Theera-Ampornpunt (2018)
“Teenage Sex” of IT
54. Hype vs. Hope
Jeremy Kemp via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hype-cycle.jsp
57. A Real-Life Personal Story of
My Failure (as a Doctor and
as a Son) in Misdiagnosing
My Mom
Would AI Help?
58. • Nothing is certain in medicine &
health care
• Large variations exist in patient
presentations, clinical course,
underlying genetic codes, patient &
provider behaviors, biological
responses & social contexts
Why Clinical Judgment Is Still Necessary?
59. • Most diseases are not diagnosed by
diagnostic criteria, but by patterns of
clinical presentation and perceived
likelihood of different diseases given
available information (differential
diagnoses)
• Human is good at pattern
recognition, while machine is good at
logic & computations
Why Clinical Judgment Is Still Necessary?
60. • Machines are (at best) as good as
the input data
–Not everything can be digitized or
digitally acquired
–Not everything digitized is accurate
(“Garbage In, Garbage Out”)
• Experience, context & human touch
matters
Why Clinical Judgment Is Still Necessary?
61. • CDSS as a replacement or supplement of
clinicians?
– The demise of the “Greek Oracle” model (Miller & Masarie, 1990)
The “Greek Oracle” Model
The “Fundamental Theorem” Model
Friedman (2009)
Wrong Assumption
Correct Assumption
Proper Roles of CDS
66. Why Aren’t We Talk About These Words?
http://hcca-act.blogspot.com/2011/07/reflections-on-patient-centred-care.html
67. The Goal of Health Care
The answer is already obvious...
“Health”
“Care”
68. • Safe
• Timely
• Effective
• Patient-Centered
• Efficient
• Equitable
Institute of Medicine, Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Crossing the quality
chasm: a new health system for the 21st century. Washington, DC: National Academy
Press; 2001. 337 p.
High Quality Care
72. Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs)
Issues
• Choosing the right CDSS strategies
• Expertise required for proper CDSS design & implementation
• Integration into the point of care with minimal productivity/
workflow impacts
• Everybody agreeing on the “rules” to be enforced
• Maintenance of the knowledge base
• Evaluation of effectiveness
73. “Ten Commandmends” for Effective CDSSs
• Speed is Everything
• Anticipate Needs and Deliver in Real Time
• Fit into the User’s Workflow
• Little Things (like Usability) Can Make a Big Difference
• Recognize that Physicians Will Strongly Resist Stopping
• Changing Direction Is Easier than Stopping
• Simple Interventions Work Best
• Ask for Additional Information Only When You Really Need
It
• Monitor Impact, Get Feedback, and Respond
• Manage and Maintain Your Knowledge-based Systems
(Bates et al., 2003)
78. Take-Away Messages
• Health IT in clinical settings comes in various forms
• Local contexts are important considerations
• Clinical IT is a very complex environment
• Health IT has much potential to improve quality & efficiency of care
• But it is also risky...
– Costs
– Change resistance
– Poor design
– Alert fatigue
– Workarounds and unintended consequences
– Use of wrong technology to fix the wrong process for the wrong goal
• We need to have an informatician’s mind (not just
a technologist’s mind) to help us navigate through the complexities
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