Health literacy, equity and communication in the COVID-19 era of misinformation – The emergence of health information professionals in infodemic management (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramona Kyabaggu ◽  
Deneice Marshall ◽  
Patience Ebuwei ◽  
Uche Ikenyei
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Research Utilization ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Information Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Key Stakeholders

UNSTRUCTURED The Health Information Management (HIM) field’s contribution to health care delivery is invaluable, especially in a pandemic context where the need for accurate diagnosis will hasten responsive evidence-based decision making. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique opportunity to transform the practice of HIM and bring more awareness to the role the frontline workers play behind the scenes safeguarding reliable, comprehensive, accurate and timely health information. This transformation will support future research, utilization management, public health surveillance and forecasting and enable key stakeholders to plan and ensure equitable health care resource allocation, especially for the most vulnerable populations. In this paper, we juxtapose critical health literacy, public policy, and health information management perspectives to understand the COVID-19 infodemic and new opportunities for health information management in infodemiology.

scholarly journals Findings from the 2017 Yearbook Section on Health Information Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (01) ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
M. Bloomrosen ◽  
E. S. Berner
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Health Information Management ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Electronic Health

Summary Objectives: To summarize the recent literature and research and present a selection of the best papers published in 2016 in the field of Health Information Management (HIM). Methods: A systematic review of the literature for the IMIA Yearbook HIM section was performed by the two section editors with the help of a medical librarian. We searched bibliographic databases for HIM-related papers were searched using both MeSH headings and key words in titles and abstracts. A shortlist of candidate best papers was first selected by section editors before being peer-reviewed by independent external reviewers. Results: The five papers selected as ‘Best Papers’ illustrate a variety of themes, include authors from a variety of countries, and were published in some of the best journals in the field. The themes of the five best papers include health information exchange, personal health records, patient engagement, data quality, and e-quality measures. Conclusions: The discipline of Health Information Management is increasingly becoming allied with the field of Biomedical Informatics in that both disciplines have interests in common. Traditional HIM areas of expertise (in the pre-electronic health record world), such as coding and privacy and security of health information, are necessary for the electronic exchange and secondary use of health information. With the changes in healthcare delivery brought by the use of electronic health records, addressing issues of information governance is essential. This synopsis discusses these key issues at the intersection of HIM and informatics, examines the potential challenges, and points the way for best practices, future research, and public policy considerations and directions.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Health Informatics

2010 ◽  
pp. 13-37
Author(s):  
Francesco Paolucci ◽  
Henry Ergas ◽  
Terry Hannan ◽  
Jos Aarts
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Clinical Decision Support Systems ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Information Management Systems

Health care is complex and there are few sectors that can compare to it in complexity and in the need for almost instantaneous information management and access to knowledge resources during clinical decision-making. There is substantial evidence available of the actual, and potential, benefits of e-health tools that use computerized clinical decision support systems (CDSS) as a means for improving health care delivery. CDSS and associated technologies will not only lead to an improvement in health care but will also change the nature of what we call electronic health records (EHR) The technologies that “define” the EHR will change the nature of how we deliver care in the future. Significant challenges relating to the evaluation of these health information management systems relate to demonstrating their ongoing cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and effects on the quality of care and patient outcomes. However, health information technology is still mainly about the effectiveness of processes and process outcomes, and the technology is still not mature, which may lead to unintended consequences, but it remains promising and unavoidable in the long run.

scholarly journals Findings from the 2017 Yearbook Section on Health Information Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (01) ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
M. Bloomrosen ◽  
E. S. Berner
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Health Information Management ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Electronic Health

Summary Objectives: To summarize the recent literature and research and present a selection of the best papers published in 2016 in the field of Health Information Management (HIM). Methods: A systematic review of the literature for the IMIA Yearbook HIM section was performed by the two section editors with the help of a medical librarian. We searched bibliographic databases for HIM-related papers were searched using both MeSH headings and key words in titles and abstracts. A shortlist of candidate best papers was first selected by section editors before being peer-reviewed by independent external reviewers. Results: The five papers selected as ‘Best Papers’ illustrate a variety of themes, include authors from a variety of countries, and were published in some of the best journals in the field. The themes of the five best papers include health information exchange, personal health records, patient engagement, data quality, and e-quality measures. Conclusions: The discipline of Health Information Management is increasingly becoming allied with the field of Biomedical Informatics in that both disciplines have interests in common. Traditional HIM areas of expertise (in the pre-electronic health record world), such as coding and privacy and security of health information, are necessary for the electronic exchange and secondary use of health information. With the changes in healthcare delivery brought by the use of electronic health records, addressing issues of information governance is essential. This synopsis discusses these key issues at the intersection of HIM and informatics, examines the potential challenges, and points the way for best practices, future research, and public policy considerations and directions.

Computer-Based Health Information Systems

2008 ◽  
pp. 2209-2231
Author(s):  
C. R. Ranjini ◽  
Sundeep Sahay
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
Health Information Management ◽  
Information Management Systems

Large investments are being made to reform the health sector in developing countries as the various reports that indicate this potential of ICT is not being fully realized on the ground in particular settings. In this chapter, an empirical investigation of the introduction of health information systems in the primary health-care sector in India is reported. Three cases—the India Health Care Project, Family Health Information Management System, and Integrated Health Information Management Systems—are presented. The authors argue against adopting a technocentric approach during the development of the HIS and suggest that these efforts should be sensitive to the sociotechnical context. Furthermore, a variety of constraints are identified. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the potentials of integration to address some of the identified constraints.

The Canadian Health Record Interoperability Infrastructure

2008 ◽  
pp. 188-193
Author(s):  
Jens H. Weber-Jahnke
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Health Information Management ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Canadian Health

Countries around the globe are struggling with the rising cost of delivering health care. In the developed world, this trend is enforced by aging demographics and emerging forms of expensive medical interventions. Disease prevention, early disease detection, and evidence- based disease management are key for keeping health care systems sustainable. Electronic information management has been recognized as a central enabler for increasing the quality of health care while controlling the cost of delivering it. Secondary care facilities (e.g., hospitals) and laboratories have made use of electronic information systems for decades. However, the primary care sector has only recently begun to adopt such systems on a broader scale. The benefit provided by each system in isolation is limited since citizens generally receive their care from a multitude of providers. Health care information systems need to interoperate in order to enable integrated health information management and consequently attain the declared qualitative and economic objectives. Many industrial countries have begun to create common infrastructures for such an integrated electronic health record (EHR) (Blobel, 2006). Different approaches exist, ranging from centralized databases to highly distributed collections of mediated provider-based systems. This chapter describes the architecture of the Canadian infrastructure for health information management, which can be seen as a compromise between a fully centralized and a fully distributed solution. While in Canada the delivery of health care is a matter of provincial territorial authority, the health ministers of all provinces and the federation have created a joint organization called Health Canada Infoway with the mandate to develop an architecture for and foster implementation of a joint interoperability infrastructure for EHRs in Canada. The second major version of this architecture has now been released, and provinces have begun to implement it. The solution is based on the paradigm of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) (Erl, 2004) and embraces a range of domain-specific and technical standards. It leverages and integrates existing investments in health information systems by making them available through interface standards-conform interface adapters. The Canadian EHR architecture has received attention beyond the Canadian context. This chapter reports on this architecture, its enabling technology paradigms, experiences with its implementation, and its limitations.

Computer-Based Health Information Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 266-292
Author(s):  
C. R. Ranjini ◽  
Sundeep Sahay
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
Health Information Management ◽  
Information Management Systems

Large investments are being made to reform the health sector in developing countries as the various reports that indicate this potential of ICT is not being fully realized on the ground in particular settings. In this chapter, an empirical investigation of the introduction of health information systems in the primary health-care sector in India is reported. Three cases—the India Health Care Project, Family Health Information Management System, and Integrated Health Information Management Systems—are presented. The authors argue against adopting a technocentric approach during the development of the HIS and suggest that these efforts should be sensitive to the sociotechnical context. Furthermore, a variety of constraints are identified. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the potentials of integration to address some of the identified constraints.

Computer-Based Health Information Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 1265-1288
Author(s):  
Ranjini C.R. ◽  
Sundeep Sahay
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
Health Information Management ◽  
Information Management Systems

Large investments are being made to reform the health sector in developing countries as the potential of ICTs in achieving health goals is being increasingly recognized. However, there have been various reports that indicate this potential of ICT is not being fully realized on the ground in particular settings. In this chapter, an empirical investigation of the introduction of health information systems in the primary health-care sector in India is reported. Three cases—the India Health Care Project, Family Health Information Management System, and Integrated Health Information Management Systems—are presented. The authors argue against adopting a technocentric approach during the development of the HIS and suggest that these efforts should be sensitive to the sociotechnical context. Furthermore, a variety of constraints are identified. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the potentials of integration to address some of the identified constraints.

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