HLST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Health Informatics, Medline
10 Dec 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Health Studies 12/7/2015 8:38:00 PM
Health Informatics
• Canada doesn’t collect a lot of money and redistributes as
childcare, free tuition
• Life is better is European countries because crime rates are lower
• black – liberal political
• how to support people with disabilities?
o if unable to work, give them benefits to live proper life
o supporting integration into the workforce by providing
them community work and do stuf that helps them out
o South Korea is worst country to have a disability, Canada’s
second
• health care was mostly paper records
• would be cool to computerize but it cost money
• information like EHRs, suppose to make health and health care
better
• organize information, computerize and communicate
• if getting drug, record should have things like allergy
• govt has handle on where money is going,
• hospitals, and clinics
• from health professionals, patients to the general population
• MedLine – information from journals on current events
o allows to type in drug and see side effects
• ECGs
• can also make decisions using computers
• TeleHealth Ontario – emergency nurse
• electronic health records are more legible, helps make decisions
• issues, changes work flow, private security, maintaining them
• can access not only your records but others as well
• easily accessible
• not possible to achieve confidentiality
• data security, system security,
• Security features
o physical and technical security
• help preserve profession-trust model
• Alberta was the first to create a province wide EHR
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