This document discusses the importance of statistics for health sciences and its impact. It provides examples of how statistical studies and computerized health programs have helped increase compliance with preventative health guidelines over time. Health statistics systems collectively provide data to understand national health and how to address areas for improvement. Challenges include having appropriate technical, operational and resource capacity to produce reliable health statistics.

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Health Statistics: Past, Present, and Future

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• How to begin understanding the Elements of the Nation’s Health Statistics Systems?
• Who has used health statistics?
• How have their information needs been?
– Successful training and understanding
– What are the some of the main challenges ?
• Technical, Operational, Resources, etc while producing health statistics
• Are health statistics fully utilized, or considered as been fully utilized by
staff
• Has the information needs to be fully utilized according to whatever
program are trained with?

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• How to begin understanding the Elements of the Nation’s Health Statistics Systems
(Cont.)
– Training personnel with the right program
– Familiarization with programs
• The various producers of health data and statistics collectively
comprise the nation’s health statistics systems
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(Building Robust Statistical Systems for Health,” Daniel Melnick, Dan Melnick Research, Inc.)
Many of us see ourselves like we are in an environment as a mechanics, secretaries, physicians, and computer geeks in an effort to
learn the right program in an effort to protect patient’s information, company and ourselves.

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• Many programs are been used in an effort to give reliable
information to understand and work with health
informatics.
• We can see these by the many statistical studies such as In
an AHRQ-funded study within a primary care internal
medicine clinic, 13 guidelines were incorporated into the
COSTAR program to remind physicians to perform specific
screening and preventive measures

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• Many programs are been used in an effort to give reliable
information to understand and work with health
informatics.
• We can see these by the many statistical studies such as In
an AHRQ-funded study within a primary care internal
medicine clinic, 13 guidelines were incorporated into the
COSTAR program to remind physicians to perform specific
screening and preventive measures

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Preventive/screening
measure
1992
(baseline)
1993 1997
Cholesterol 72% 88% 89%
Papsmear 64% 69% 75%
Mammogram 63% 66% 70%
Breast exam 77% 81% 72%
Breast exam instructions 8% 38% 41%
Testicular exam 48% 59% 67%
Rectal exam 38% 72% 67%
Fecal occult blood 78% 74% 60%
Flu vaccine 69% 67% 63%
Pneumovax 58% 65% 55%
Measles 19% 24% 12%
Tetanus (TB) 7% 18% 23%
Rubella 4% 19% 14%
Table 1-Presents the changes in compliance rates for computerized guidelines after
implementation of a computerized health maintenance reporting system for patients seen in an
ambulatory care practice percent (in clinic)
(Morgan, et al 1998):

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• we can see that many areas in statistics have been able to give us necessary information since the early 1970s
to see what areas need to be address as the times have changed to electronic health information. Even though time
continues to change we can get the information and work with it.

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(Figure 3:2. Deaths per 100,000 inhabitantsfor some major diagnosis groups, 1970–2002 (age-standardized). Source: Causes of Death Register, Centre for Epidemiology, National Board of Health and
Welfare)

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• As we continue to discuss and learn what healthcare informatics is all about in the medical field we will
continue to grow in a business that is here to stay. We are going to look like this picture to be able to work the
diversity of the many medical programs that are around the globe in effort to use the correct one in an event to
protect humanity.

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