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“On a broad level, the most important component of improving health record systems lies in the standardization of information and databases across different users and facets of the healthcare system. This standardization should encompass a wide variety of issues, including how much information to include on databases, what type of text and formatting should be used, and how to separate and prioritize valuable information from irrelevant data.”
Pavel Gulyayev, former AIHA ICT coordinator for Central Asia
Medical informatics is the intersection of information science, medical practice, and the provision of healthcare services. In a healthcare setting, information systems can help clinicians and administrators effectively manage resources and optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information.
Health information systems include computers and electronic databases, as well as clinical practice guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication technologies. These tools can provide a framework for standardized electronic medical record-keeping, case management, and surveillance.
Projects
AIHA’s efforts to improve partner understanding of and access to medical informatics through specific programmatic activities include:
Learning Resources Center Project
AIHA’s Learning Resource Centers (LRCs) are designed to enable partners to overcome isolation from information that has discouraged the adaptation of clinical practices to reflect changing international standards of healthcare provision. In addition to providing a direct link to current information sources, LRCs also offer new opportunities for education, communication, and collaboration within the AIHA partnership network, as well as with the international health community. In many cases, the resources available at the LRCs play a key role in the development of more effective management of information and streamlining of related systems. Read more...
PMTCT Database
With funding from USAID, AIHA is implementing a PMTCT project in four Russian regions: Orenburg, Samara, Saratov, and St. Petersburg. Developing an effective PMTCT monitoring system is one of key components of this project and our efforts in this arena include defining an optimal set of indicators related to scope and type of PMTCT interventions provided, as well as outcomes achieved by each one. AIHA is also working with our partners to standardize institutional and regional data registration through normative orders—or prikaz—on information exchange and data collection and improve methods of data collection, monitoring, and analysis. The PMTCT database designed for use in Russia is based an the system created by AIHA partners in Odessa, Ukraine, as part of a pilot PMTCT program established there in 2000. Read more...
Information Systems Resources
Disseminating accurate, timely information rooted in evidence-based practices and sharing successful models and lessons learned plays an important role in AIHA’s strategy for sustainable healthcare programs. For more on information systems, please visit the following links:
» EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network
» LRC Toolkit
» Educational Resources for LRCs
» Articles
» Other Resources
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