Asan Medical Information System for Healthcare Quality Improvement / 대한의료정보학회지
Healthcare Informatics Research
;
: 191-197, 2010.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-191450
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
This purpose of this paper is to introduce the status of the Asan Medical Center (AMC) medical information system with respect to healthcare quality improvement.METHODS:
Asan Medical Information System (AMIS) is projected to become a completely electronic and digital information hospital. AMIS has played a role in improving the health care quality based on the followingmeasures:
safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, privacy, and security.RESULTS:
AMIS consisted of several distinctive systems order communication system, electronic medical record, picture archiving communication system, clinical research information system, data warehouse, enterprise resource planning, IT service management system, and disaster recovery system. The most distinctive features of AMIS were the high alert-medication recognition & management system, the integrated and severity stratified alert system, the integrated patient monitoring system, the perioperative diabetic care monitoring and support system, and the clinical indicator management system.CONCLUSIONS:
AMIS provides IT services for AMC, 7 affiliated hospitals and over 5,000 partners clinics, and was developed to improve healthcare services. The current challenge of AMIS is standard and interoperability. A global health IT strategy is needed to get through the current challenges and to provide new services as needed.
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Index:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Quality of Health Care
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Information Systems
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Hospital Information Systems
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Privacy
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Decision Support Systems, Clinical
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Delivery of Health Care
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Disasters
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Electronics
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Electrons
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Electronic Health Records
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Healthcare Informatics Research
Year:
2010
Type:
Article
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