ICT Role in Healthcare

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EMERGINGROLEOFICTINMEDICAL

EDUCATION

AND

HEALTHCAREAuthors

MuhammadAfzal,MaqboolHussain,HafizFarooqAhmad,Noor Ul Qayyum

NUSTSchoolofElectricalEngineeringandComputerScience,Islamabad Pakistan. 1


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Future of ICT in Healthcare

InformationandCommunicationTechnology(ICT) isdiffusingitsservicestodiversedomains.

MedicalandHealthcareisintimatelyassociatedwithhumanlives.

Todaysworldisofglobalization

Soignoring

ICT

in

medical

and

healthcare

is

not

affordable.

MuhammadAfzal,NUSTSEECS 2


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Presentation Outlines

Background

ICT and Importance of ICT

Healthcare with ICT and without ICT. Levels of ICT

Global ICT activities

HLH Project

Objectives

Different Flavors of HLH Outputs of this project

Conclusion



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Background



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ICT and Importance of ICT

ICTisacombinationofthreewords;

Information

Communication

Technology

ICTcanbeunderstoodonlybyitsusesandapplications.

ICT;


storage,retrieval,manipulation,

transmission

ofinformation

bridgingdistances

providemorerealisticinformationonlifeelsewhere

providehealthinformation,includingonsensitiveissues


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Global

ICT

Activities(Healthcare)



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MALAYSIA

HealthVision2020

Malaysiaistobea

nationof

healthyindividuals,families

and

communities

Achievingthisvision;

Telehealth Services

HealthOnline

LifeTime

Health

Plan

Teleconsultation


TelePrimaryCare (TPC)


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INDIA

1.Telemedicine

TakingmodernhealthcaretoremoteareasusingICT asspecialistsarecitybased

Decreasein

price

and

complexityandIncreasingavailability

2.HRPortalforHealthDepartment

3.IntegratedDiseaseSurveillance

Project

Toestablish

adecentralized

state

based

system

ofsurveillanceforcommunicableandnoncommunicablediseases



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Pakistan

1.NationalProgramforFamilyPlanningandPrimaryHealthCare

NationalICTR&DFundsisplayingamarvelousroletopromoteICTinhealthcare.Itprovidesfundsforprojects;

RemotePatientMonitoringSystemwithFocuson

AntenatalCare

for

Rural

Population

HealthLifeHorizon:

Open

Source

HL7

V3

ApplicationforeHealthServices


1 2

InprogressasFASTUniversity InprogressasNUSTUniversity


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Information

ExchangewithHL7



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Levels of ICT and our Interest


Weare

working

onthis

level


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Introduction to HL7

HL7 provides standards for interoperability that improve care

delivery, optimize workflow, reduce ambiguity and enhance

knowledge transfer among all of our stakeholders, including

healthcare providers, government agencies, the vendorcommunity, fellow SDOs and patients.

StandardDevelopingOrganization

ANSIaccredited

NonforprofitVolunteerorganization

Developspecificationsnotsoftware

To

create

the

best

and

most

widely

used

standards

in

healthcare.

Vision

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Information Exchange and Interoperability

Hospital Management SystemHL7 V.3 Application

Data

Laboratory Information System

Data

HL7 V.3 Application

HL7applicationwillactasmiddlewareusedinsamewayforotherHealthcareSystems.



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Some Facts and Figures

Healthcareisa$1.7trilliondollarindustry:

highlyfragmentedandhighlycompetitive.

Everyyearatleast98,000Americansdieandmillionsmoreareinjuredasaresultofmedicalerrors.

Standardizedinformation

exchange

would

savethenation$86.8Billioneachyear



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Health

Life

HorizonProject



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Health Life Horizon Project(Funded by National ICT R&D Funds)

HLH

LaboratoryDomain

Patient

AdministrationDomain

HL7 Domains

Adapter

HL7 V2 & V3

Conversion

Transportation

Web Services MLLP ebXML

Standard

HL7 Version 3

Research

SOA for HL7

Ontologybased HL7



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USA Turkey Taiwan Switzerland Sweden Spain Japan Korea

Italy Greece Germany France Finland Colombia Denmark Czech

UK China Chile Canada Brazil Austria Australia Argentina

Mexico Romania Netherland Uruguay India SouthAfricaNew Zealand

HL7 Affiliates


Morethan500organizationmembersofHL7Morethan2200individualmembersofHL7 FromPakistanwearethefirst


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Conclusion



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Conclusion

Role of ICT is increasing all over the world.

Responsibility as a nation to incorporateICT as much as possible.

Needed healthcare communication withstandards

Purpose to get better patient care.



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Any Query / Suggestion?



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References Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS, eds, To Err is Human :

Building a Safer Health System, Washington, DC: NationalAcademy Press; 1999.

Walker, Eric Pan, Douglas Johnston, Julia Adler-Milstein, DavidW. Bates, and Blackford Middleton, The value of Health CareInformation Exchange and Interoperability.

Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)1997 Leadership Survey.

www.hl7.org

http//:Hl7.niit.edu.pk

http://www.hl7.org/http://www.hl7.org/


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Motivation

Creatingawarenessandimportanceof

ICTin

Healthcare

SharingviewsandinterestsofICTExpertswith

Medical

and

Healthcare

Experts.

Highlightsthe

initiatives

to

promote

ICT

in

Healthcare.



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Healthcare and ICTMedical

and

Healthcare

is;

relatedtopersonallife

and

no

aspect

of

human

life

has

escaped

the

impact

of

the

Information

Age

andperhapsinnoareaoflifeisinformationmorecriticalthaninhealth

andmedicine.

TodaysMedicalEducationwithoutICTmeans;

ConventionalMedicalEducation

TodayhealthcarewithoutICTmeans;

poorpatientcare



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USA

Healthcareisa$1.7trilliondollarindustry:

highlyfragmentedandhighlycompetitive.

Everyyearatleast98,000Americansdieandmillionsmoreareinjuredasaresultofmedicalerrors.

New

elected

US

president

Barack

Obama

vision;Affordableandaccessiblehealthcaretoall


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