Health Information Systems

So hello there, it's me again, blogging to you about seminars and stuff. So it's going to be different this time because I wasn't actually at the seminar when it happened, I only watched it through video recording and researched about it.

So what exactly is a Health Information Systems?

According to the University of Queensland Australia (2012), it "should be an integrated effort to collect, process, report and use health information and knowledge to influence policy and decision-making, programme action and research." 

I think there are only few, if not not any, working HIS in the Philippines. Implementing HIS in the Philippine private and public hospitals and/or clinics would be a challenge because it needs to simple and sustainable (University of Queensland, 2012). But I'm very curious to see if there will be a proper implementation and how it can actually affect the people, management and system of the hospitals, especially on patient care. That's all folks!

Reference:

The University of Queensland. (2012). Defining HIS - HMN Framework. 

Retrieved from: http://www.uq.edu.au/hishub/definition-of-health-information-systems