Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in Health Care is a structured organizational process that involves physicians and other personnel in planning and implementing ongoing proactive improvements in processes of care to provide quality health care outcomes. Part of the study done was to evaluate the quality care and to determine what good care is; whether the […]
Even with legal and regulatory restrictions on the release and use of data sets for public health surveillance, mechanisms have been created to facilitate surveillance and other programs’ ability to share data or to use other programs’ data. Legal surveillance undertakings support public health maintenance at numerous stages, starting with the establishment of health objectives. […]
World Health Organization. (December 11, 2010). Public Health Surveillance. Retrieved October 8, 2012 from http://www.who.int/immunization_monitoring/burden/routine_surveillance/en/ Disease surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, merging and analysis of data and the dissemination of this information to those who need it so that action may be taken. Surveillance like this requires understanding of how public data are […]
Savel T., Foldy S. (July 27, 2012). The Role of Public Health Informatics in Enhancing Public Health Surveillance. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved October 7, 2012 from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6103a5.htm Several federal projects have been conducted successfully that share restricted data with other agencies and nongovernmental organizations. For example, Center for Disease Control and […]
DIFOTI (Digital imaging fiber optic transillumination) involves using a digital camera to obtain images of teeth illuminated with laser light. The images are analyzed using computer algorithms. DIFOTI can find cavities developing behind metal fillings that X-rays would not diagnose.
Computerized warning systems can be used to prevent ADEs. Serious ADEs occur in about 7 percent of patients admitted to hospitals. Many of these are caused by a physician prescribing either the wrong drug or the wrong dosage, because of lack of knowledge of either the patients or the drug. In 1994, a computerized warning […]
Before the availability of computer technology, many drugs were discovered by accident or trial and error. At the current epoch, a new system has emerged—rational drug design, a way of developing drugs with the help of computers. Computers are being used to aid in designing and testing new drugs. Genetic tests can be used to […]
Some of the advantages of using robots in the operating room is that a robot may be able to “see” via video devices and to “hear” through microphones using speech recognition software. Robots can hold endoscopes and other instruments without becoming tired or shaky—unlike humans who are liable to becoming tired. Robots are used to […]
Social and economic inequality is detrimental to the health of any society. Especially when the society is diverse, multicultural, overpopulated and undergoing rapid but unequal economic growth. It is apparent to some degrees that the effects of social and economic inequality in healthcare delivery of a society are profound. In a large, overpopulated countries, such […]
Development of effective public health information systems requires understanding of public health informatics (PHI), the systematic application of information and computer science and technology to public health practice, research, and learning. PHI is well-known from other informatics specialties by its focus on deterrence in populations, use of a wide range of interventions to achieve its […]