Application of ICT for Health
in Clinical Settings
Kasetsart University
April 2, 2015
Nawanan Theera-Ampornpunt, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Community Medicine
Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital
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2003 M.D. (First-Class Honors) (Ramathibodi)
2009 M.S. in Health Informatics (U of MN)
2011 Ph.D. in Health Informatics (U of MN)
• Deputy Executive Director for Informatics (CIO/CMIO)
Chakri Naruebodindra Medical Institute
• Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine
Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital
Mahidol University
nawanan.the@mahidol.ac.th
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Introduction
3
Outline
• Health & Health Information
• Health IT & eHealth
• Health Informatics as a Discipline
• Thailand’s eHealth Situation
• Current Forces
4
Health &
Health Information
5
Let’s take a look at
these pictures...
6Image Source: Guardian.co.uk
Manufacturing
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Banking
8ER - Image Source: nj.com
Healthcare (on TV)
9
(At an undisclosed nearby hospital)
Healthcare (Reality)
10
• Life-or-Death
• Difficult to automate human decisions
– Nature of business
– Many & varied stakeholders
– Evolving standards of care
• Fragmented, poorly-coordinated systems
• Large, ever-growing & changing body of
knowledge
• High volume, low resources, little time
Why Healthcare Isn’t Like Any Others
11
Back to
something simple...
12
To treat & to
care for their
patients to their
best abilities,
given limited
time &
resources
Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Newborn_Examination_1967.jpg (Nevit Dilmen)
What Clinicians Want?
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• Safe
• Timely
• Effective
• Patient-Centered
• Efficient
• Equitable
Institute of Medicine, Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Crossing the quality
chasm: a new health system for the 21st century. Washington, DC: National Academy
Press; 2001. 337 p.
High Quality Care
14
Information is Everywhere in Healthcare
15
“Information” in Medicine
Shortliffe EH. Biomedical informatics in the education of physicians. JAMA.
2010 Sep 15;304(11):1227-8.
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WHO (2009)
Components of Health Systems
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WHO (2009)
WHO Health System Framework
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Outline
Health & Health Information
• Health IT & eHealth
• Health Informatics as a Discipline
• Thailand’s eHealth Situation
• Current Forces
19
Health IT &
eHealth
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(IOM, 2001)(IOM, 2000) (IOM, 2011)
Landmark IOM Reports
21
• To Err is Human (IOM, 2000) reported
that:
– 44,000 to 98,000 people die in U.S.
hospitals each year as a result of
preventable medical mistakes
– Mistakes cost U.S. hospitals $17 billion to
$29 billion yearly
– Individual errors are not the main problem
– Faulty systems, processes, and other
conditions lead to preventable errors
Health IT Workforce Curriculum Version
3.0/Spring 2012 Introduction to Healthcare and Public Health in the US: Regulating Healthcare - Lecture d
Patient Safety
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• Humans are not perfect and are bound to
make errors
• Highlight problems in U.S. health care
system that systematically contributes to
medical errors and poor quality
• Recommends reform
• Health IT plays a role in improving patient
safety
IOM Reports Summary
23
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To Err is Human 1: Attention
24Image Source: Suthan Srisangkaew, Department of Pathology, Facutly of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital
To Err is Human 2: Memory
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• Cognitive Errors - Example: Decoy Pricing
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# of
People
# of
People
To Err is Human 3: Cognition
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• It already happens....
(Mamede et al., 2010; Croskerry, 2003;
Klein, 2005; Croskerry, 2013)
What If This Happens in Healthcare?
27
Mamede S, van Gog T, van den Berge K, Rikers RM, van Saase JL, van Guldener C,
Schmidt HG. Effect of availability bias and reflective reasoning on diagnostic accuracy
among internal medicine residents. JAMA. 2010 Sep 15;304(11):1198-203.
Cognitive Biases in Healthcare
28
Croskerry P. The importance of cognitive errors in diagnosis and strategies to minimize them.
Acad Med. 2003 Aug;78(8):775-80.
Cognitive Biases in Healthcare
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Klein JG. Five pitfalls in decisions about diagnosis and prescribing. BMJ. 2005 Apr
2;330(7494):781-3.
“Everyone makes mistakes. But our
reliance on cognitive processes prone to
bias makes treatment errors more likely
than we think”
Cognitive Biases in Healthcare
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• Medication Errors
–Drug Allergies
–Drug Interactions
• Ineffective or inappropriate treatment
• Redundant orders
• Failure to follow clinical practice guidelines
Common Errors
31
Why We Need ICT
in Healthcare?
#1: Because information is
everywhere in healthcare
32
Why We Need ICT
in Healthcare?
#2: Because healthcare is
error-prone and technology
can help
33
Why We Need ICT
in Healthcare?
#3: Because access to
high-quality patient
information improves care
34
Why We Need ICT
in Healthcare?
#4: Because healthcare at
all levels is fragmented &
in need of process
improvement
35
Use of information and communications
technology (ICT) in health & healthcare
settings
Source: The Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of
Health and Human Service, USA
Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
Health IT
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Use of information and communications
technology (ICT) for health; Including
• Treating patients
• Conducting research
• Educating the health workforce
• Tracking diseases
• Monitoring public health.
Sources: 1) WHO Global Observatory of eHealth (GOe) (www.who.int/goe)
2) World Health Assembly, 2005. Resolution WHA58.28
Slide adapted from: Mark Landry, WHO WPRO & Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
eHealth
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eHealth  Health IT
Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
eHealth & Health IT
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HIS
All information about health
eHealth
HMIS
mHealth
Tele-
medicine
Slide adapted from: Karl Brown (Rockefeller Foundation),
via Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
More Terms...
39
Health
Information
Technology
Goal
Value-Add
Tools
Health IT: What’s in a Word?
40
 All components are essential
 All components should be balanced
Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
eHealth Components: WHO-ITU Model
41
Hospital Information System (HIS) Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
Electronic
Health
Records
(EHRs)
Picture Archiving and
Communication System
(PACS)
Screenshot Images from Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
Various Forms of Health IT
42
mHealth
Biosurveillance
Telemedicine &
Telehealth
Images from Apple Inc., Geekzone.co.nz, Google, HealthVault.com and American Telecare, Inc.
Personal Health Records
(PHRs) and Patient Portals
Still Many Other Forms of Health IT
43
• Guideline adherence
• Better documentation
• Practitioner decision making or
process of care
• Medication safety
• Patient surveillance & monitoring
• Patient education/reminder
Documented Values of Health IT
44
• Master Patient Index (MPI)
• Admit-Discharge-Transfer (ADT)
• Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
• Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
• Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS)
• Picture Archiving and Communication System
(PACS)
• Nursing applications
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Some Hospital IT - Enterprise-wide
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• Pharmacy applications
• Laboratory Information System (LIS)
• Radiology Information System (RIS)
• Specialized applications (ER, OR, LR,
Anesthesia, Critical Care, Dietary
Services, Blood Bank)
• Incident management & reporting system
Some Hospital IT - Departmental Systems
46
The Challenge - Knowing What It Means
Electronic Medical
Records (EMRs)
Computer-Based
Patient Records
(CPRs)
Electronic Patient
Records (EPRs)
Electronic Health
Records (EHRs)
Personal Health
Records (PHRs)
Hospital
Information System
(HIS)
Clinical Information
System (CIS)
EHRs & HIS
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Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
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Values
• No handwriting!!!
• Structured data entry: Completeness, clarity,
fewer mistakes (?)
• No transcription errors!
• Streamlines workflow, increases efficiency
Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
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• The real place where most of the
values of health IT can be achieved
– Expert systems
• Based on artificial intelligence,
machine learning, rules, or
statistics
• Examples: differential
diagnoses, treatment options
(Shortliffe, 1976)
Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS)
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– Alerts & reminders
• Based on specified logical conditions
• Examples:
– Drug-allergy checks
– Drug-drug interaction checks
– Reminders for preventive services
– Clinical practice guideline integration
Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS)
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Examples of “Reminders”
52Image Source: https://webcis.nyp.org/webcisdocs/what-are-infobuttons.html
Some Other CDS - Infobuttons
53Image Source: http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/ResourceRoomRedesign/CSSSIS/html/06Reliable/SSI/Order.cfm
Some Other CDS - Order Sets/Checklists
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Some Other CDS - Abnormal Lab Highlights
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External Memory
Knowledge Data
Long Term Memory
Knowledge Data
Inference
DECISION
PATIENT
Perception
Attention
Working
Memory
CLINICIAN
Elson, Faughnan & Connelly (1997)
Clinical Decision Making & CDS
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IBM’s Watson
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Rise of the Machines
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• CDS as a replacement or supplement of
clinicians?
– The demise of the “Greek Oracle” model (Miller & Masarie, 1990)
The “Greek Oracle” Model
The “Fundamental Theorem” Model
Friedman (2009)
Wrong Assumption
Correct Assumption
Proper Roles of CDS
59
The “Human Factor”
• Alert fatigue
Unintended Consequences of Health IT
60
Workarounds
61
Hospital A Hospital B
Clinic C
Government
Lab Patient at Home
The Big Picture: Health Information Exchange (HIE)
62
Outline
Health & Health Information
Health IT & eHealth
• Health Informatics as a Discipline
• Thailand’s eHealth Situation
• Current Forces
63
Health Informatics
as a Discipline
64
M/B/H Informatics As A Field
(Shortliffe, 2002)
65(Hersh, 2009)
M/B/H Informatics As a Discipline
66
Biomedical/
Health
Informatics
Computer &
Information
Science
Engineering
Cognitive
&
Decision
Science
Social
Sciences
(Psychology,
Sociology,
Linguistics,
Law &
Ethics)
Statistics
&
Research
Methods Medical
Sciences &
Public
Health
Management
Library
Science,
Information
Retrieval,
KM
And More!
M/B/H Informatics & Other Fields
67
Outline
Health & Health Information
Health IT & eHealth
Health Informatics as a Discipline
• Thailand’s eHealth Situation
• Current Forces
68
Thailand’s
eHealth Situation
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eHealth in Thailand: The current status. Stud Health Technol Inform
2010;160:376–80, Presented at MedInfo2010 South Africa
Thailand’s eHealth: 2010
70Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
Thailand: Unbalanced Development
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eHealth Applications
Enabling Policies &
Strategies
Foundation Policies
& Strategies
• Services
• Applications
• Software
• Standards &
Interoperability
• Capability Building
• Leadership &
Governance
• Legislation & Policy
• Strategy & Investment
• Infrastructure
Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
eHealth Development Model
72Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin
Thailand’s eHealth Development
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 Silo-type systems
 Little integration and interoperability
 Mostly aim for administration and management
 40% of work-hours spent on managing reports and
documents
 Lack of national leadership and governance body
 Inadequate HIS foundations development
Slide adapted from: Boonchai Kijsanayotin
Thailand’s eHealth Situation
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Section 1 Hospital Profile
Section 2 IT Adoption & Use
Profile
Section 3 Respondent’s
Information
Thailand’s Health IT Adoption
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• 4 of 1,302 hospitals ineligible
• Response rate 69.9%
Characteristic Overall Responding
Hospitals
Non-
Responding
Hospitals
N of eligible hospitals 1,298 908 390
Bed size** 106.9 117.5 82.9
Public status**
Private
Public
24.0%
76.0%
17.4%
82.6%
39.2%
60.8%
Geography*
Central
East
North
Northeast
South
West
33.4%
7.5%
11.1%
27.1%
15.3%
5.6%
31.1%
7.8%
13.5%
26.9%
14.9%
5.8%
39.0%
6.7%
5.4%
27.7%
16.2%
5.1%
*p < 0.01, **p < 0.001.
Nationwide Survey Results
76Pongpirul et al., 2004
Vendor/Product Distribution (2004)
77
Vendor/Product Distribution (2011)
Theera-Ampornpunt, 2011
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Estimate (Partial or Complete Adoption) Nationwide
Basic EHR, outpatient 86.6%
Basic EHR, inpatient 50.4%
Basic EHR, both settings 49.8%
Comprehensive EHR, outpatient 10.6%
Comprehensive EHR, inpatient 5.7%
Comprehensive EHR, both settings 5.3%
Order entry of medications, outpatient 96.5%
Order entry of medications, inpatient 91.4%
Order entry of medications, both settings 90.2%
Order entry of all orders, outpatient 88.6%
Order entry of all orders, inpatient 81.7%
Order entry of all orders, both settings 79.4%
Health IT Adoption Estimates
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• High IT adoption rates
• Drastic changes in adoption landscape
• Local context might play a role
– Supply Side
– Demand Side
• International Comparison
– Relatively higher adoption
THAIS: Discussion
80
Outline
Health & Health Information
Health IT & eHealth
Health Informatics as a Discipline
Thailand’s eHealth Situation
• Current Forces
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Current Forces
82
International
• Technology Trends
• Standards & Interoperability Trends
• eHealth Successes & Failures
– UK NHS
– US Meaningful Use
– Nordic Countries
• International eHealth Networks
– International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
– American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
– Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN)
Current Forces
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URGES Member States:
(1) to consider, as appropriate, options to collaborate with
relevant stakeholders, including national authorities, relevant ministries,
health care providers, and academic institutions, in order to draw up a
road map for implementation of ehealth and health data standards at
national and subnational levels;
(2) to consider developing, as appropriate, policies and
legislative mechanisms linked to an overall national eHealth strategy, in
order to ensure compliance in the adoption of ehealth and health data
standards by the public and private sectors, as appropriate, and the
donor community, as well as to ensure the privacy of personal clinical
data;
http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA66/A66_R24-en.pdf
World Health Assembly Resolution WHA66.24 (2013) on
eHealth Standardization & Interoperability
84
(3) to consider ways for ministries of health and public
health authorities to work with their national representatives
on the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee in order to
coordinate national positions towards the delegation,
governance and operation of health-related global top-level
domain names in all languages, including “.health”, in the
interest of public health;
http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA66/A66_R24-en.pdf
World Health Assembly Resolution WHA66.24 (2013) on
eHealth Standardization & Interoperability
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Domestic
• Thailand’s Health Insurance Trends
• Increased Hospital IT Adoption
• Demands for Data & Information Exchange
in Thailand’s Healthcare
• Thailand’s e-Transaction Trends
• Consumer IT Behavior Trends
Current Forces
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Outline
Health & Health Information
Health IT & eHealth
Health Informatics as a Discipline
Thailand’s eHealth Situation
Current Forces
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The Journey Beyond:
A Long and Winding Road

Application of ICT for Health in Clinical Settings

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    Application of ICTfor Health in Clinical Settings Kasetsart University April 2, 2015 Nawanan Theera-Ampornpunt, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Community Medicine Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital SlideShare.net/Nawanan
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    2 2003 M.D. (First-ClassHonors) (Ramathibodi) 2009 M.S. in Health Informatics (U of MN) 2011 Ph.D. in Health Informatics (U of MN) • Deputy Executive Director for Informatics (CIO/CMIO) Chakri Naruebodindra Medical Institute • Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University [email protected] SlideShare.net/Nawanan http://groups.google.com/group/ThaiHealthIT Introduction
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    3 Outline • Health &Health Information • Health IT & eHealth • Health Informatics as a Discipline • Thailand’s eHealth Situation • Current Forces
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    5 Let’s take alook at these pictures...
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    8ER - ImageSource: nj.com Healthcare (on TV)
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    9 (At an undisclosednearby hospital) Healthcare (Reality)
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    10 • Life-or-Death • Difficultto automate human decisions – Nature of business – Many & varied stakeholders – Evolving standards of care • Fragmented, poorly-coordinated systems • Large, ever-growing & changing body of knowledge • High volume, low resources, little time Why Healthcare Isn’t Like Any Others
  • 11.
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    12 To treat &to care for their patients to their best abilities, given limited time & resources Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Newborn_Examination_1967.jpg (Nevit Dilmen) What Clinicians Want?
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    13 • Safe • Timely •Effective • Patient-Centered • Efficient • Equitable Institute of Medicine, Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Crossing the quality chasm: a new health system for the 21st century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2001. 337 p. High Quality Care
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    15 “Information” in Medicine ShortliffeEH. Biomedical informatics in the education of physicians. JAMA. 2010 Sep 15;304(11):1227-8.
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    18 Outline Health & HealthInformation • Health IT & eHealth • Health Informatics as a Discipline • Thailand’s eHealth Situation • Current Forces
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    20 (IOM, 2001)(IOM, 2000)(IOM, 2011) Landmark IOM Reports
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    21 • To Erris Human (IOM, 2000) reported that: – 44,000 to 98,000 people die in U.S. hospitals each year as a result of preventable medical mistakes – Mistakes cost U.S. hospitals $17 billion to $29 billion yearly – Individual errors are not the main problem – Faulty systems, processes, and other conditions lead to preventable errors Health IT Workforce Curriculum Version 3.0/Spring 2012 Introduction to Healthcare and Public Health in the US: Regulating Healthcare - Lecture d Patient Safety
  • 22.
    22 • Humans arenot perfect and are bound to make errors • Highlight problems in U.S. health care system that systematically contributes to medical errors and poor quality • Recommends reform • Health IT plays a role in improving patient safety IOM Reports Summary
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    23 Image Source: (Left)http://docwhisperer.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/sleepy-heads/ (Right) http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/05/health/chen_600.jpg To Err is Human 1: Attention
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    24Image Source: SuthanSrisangkaew, Department of Pathology, Facutly of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital To Err is Human 2: Memory
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    25 • Cognitive Errors- Example: Decoy Pricing The Economist Purchase Options • Economist.com subscription $59 • Print subscription $125 • Print & web subscription $125 Ariely (2008) 16 0 84 The Economist Purchase Options • Economist.com subscription $59 • Print & web subscription $125 68 32 # of People # of People To Err is Human 3: Cognition
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    26 • It alreadyhappens.... (Mamede et al., 2010; Croskerry, 2003; Klein, 2005; Croskerry, 2013) What If This Happens in Healthcare?
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    27 Mamede S, vanGog T, van den Berge K, Rikers RM, van Saase JL, van Guldener C, Schmidt HG. Effect of availability bias and reflective reasoning on diagnostic accuracy among internal medicine residents. JAMA. 2010 Sep 15;304(11):1198-203. Cognitive Biases in Healthcare
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    28 Croskerry P. Theimportance of cognitive errors in diagnosis and strategies to minimize them. Acad Med. 2003 Aug;78(8):775-80. Cognitive Biases in Healthcare
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    29 Klein JG. Fivepitfalls in decisions about diagnosis and prescribing. BMJ. 2005 Apr 2;330(7494):781-3. “Everyone makes mistakes. But our reliance on cognitive processes prone to bias makes treatment errors more likely than we think” Cognitive Biases in Healthcare
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    30 • Medication Errors –DrugAllergies –Drug Interactions • Ineffective or inappropriate treatment • Redundant orders • Failure to follow clinical practice guidelines Common Errors
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    31 Why We NeedICT in Healthcare? #1: Because information is everywhere in healthcare
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    32 Why We NeedICT in Healthcare? #2: Because healthcare is error-prone and technology can help
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    33 Why We NeedICT in Healthcare? #3: Because access to high-quality patient information improves care
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    34 Why We NeedICT in Healthcare? #4: Because healthcare at all levels is fragmented & in need of process improvement
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    35 Use of informationand communications technology (ICT) in health & healthcare settings Source: The Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Service, USA Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin Health IT
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    36 Use of informationand communications technology (ICT) for health; Including • Treating patients • Conducting research • Educating the health workforce • Tracking diseases • Monitoring public health. Sources: 1) WHO Global Observatory of eHealth (GOe) (www.who.int/goe) 2) World Health Assembly, 2005. Resolution WHA58.28 Slide adapted from: Mark Landry, WHO WPRO & Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin eHealth
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    37 eHealth  HealthIT Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin eHealth & Health IT
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    38 HIS All information abouthealth eHealth HMIS mHealth Tele- medicine Slide adapted from: Karl Brown (Rockefeller Foundation), via Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin More Terms...
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    40  All componentsare essential  All components should be balanced Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin eHealth Components: WHO-ITU Model
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    41 Hospital Information System(HIS) Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) Screenshot Images from Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University Various Forms of Health IT
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    42 mHealth Biosurveillance Telemedicine & Telehealth Images fromApple Inc., Geekzone.co.nz, Google, HealthVault.com and American Telecare, Inc. Personal Health Records (PHRs) and Patient Portals Still Many Other Forms of Health IT
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    43 • Guideline adherence •Better documentation • Practitioner decision making or process of care • Medication safety • Patient surveillance & monitoring • Patient education/reminder Documented Values of Health IT
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    44 • Master PatientIndex (MPI) • Admit-Discharge-Transfer (ADT) • Electronic Health Records (EHRs) • Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) • Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS) • Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) • Nursing applications • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Some Hospital IT - Enterprise-wide
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    45 • Pharmacy applications •Laboratory Information System (LIS) • Radiology Information System (RIS) • Specialized applications (ER, OR, LR, Anesthesia, Critical Care, Dietary Services, Blood Bank) • Incident management & reporting system Some Hospital IT - Departmental Systems
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    46 The Challenge -Knowing What It Means Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) Computer-Based Patient Records (CPRs) Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Personal Health Records (PHRs) Hospital Information System (HIS) Clinical Information System (CIS) EHRs & HIS
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    48 Values • No handwriting!!! •Structured data entry: Completeness, clarity, fewer mistakes (?) • No transcription errors! • Streamlines workflow, increases efficiency Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
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    49 • The realplace where most of the values of health IT can be achieved – Expert systems • Based on artificial intelligence, machine learning, rules, or statistics • Examples: differential diagnoses, treatment options (Shortliffe, 1976) Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS)
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    50 – Alerts &reminders • Based on specified logical conditions • Examples: – Drug-allergy checks – Drug-drug interaction checks – Reminders for preventive services – Clinical practice guideline integration Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS)
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    55 External Memory Knowledge Data LongTerm Memory Knowledge Data Inference DECISION PATIENT Perception Attention Working Memory CLINICIAN Elson, Faughnan & Connelly (1997) Clinical Decision Making & CDS
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    58 • CDS asa replacement or supplement of clinicians? – The demise of the “Greek Oracle” model (Miller & Masarie, 1990) The “Greek Oracle” Model The “Fundamental Theorem” Model Friedman (2009) Wrong Assumption Correct Assumption Proper Roles of CDS
  • 59.
    59 The “Human Factor” •Alert fatigue Unintended Consequences of Health IT
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    61 Hospital A HospitalB Clinic C Government Lab Patient at Home The Big Picture: Health Information Exchange (HIE)
  • 62.
    62 Outline Health & HealthInformation Health IT & eHealth • Health Informatics as a Discipline • Thailand’s eHealth Situation • Current Forces
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    64 M/B/H Informatics AsA Field (Shortliffe, 2002)
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    67 Outline Health & HealthInformation Health IT & eHealth Health Informatics as a Discipline • Thailand’s eHealth Situation • Current Forces
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    69 eHealth in Thailand:The current status. Stud Health Technol Inform 2010;160:376–80, Presented at MedInfo2010 South Africa Thailand’s eHealth: 2010
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    70Slide adapted from:Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin Thailand: Unbalanced Development
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    71 eHealth Applications Enabling Policies& Strategies Foundation Policies & Strategies • Services • Applications • Software • Standards & Interoperability • Capability Building • Leadership & Governance • Legislation & Policy • Strategy & Investment • Infrastructure Slide adapted from: Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin eHealth Development Model
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    72Slide adapted from:Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin Thailand’s eHealth Development
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    73  Silo-type systems Little integration and interoperability  Mostly aim for administration and management  40% of work-hours spent on managing reports and documents  Lack of national leadership and governance body  Inadequate HIS foundations development Slide adapted from: Boonchai Kijsanayotin Thailand’s eHealth Situation
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    74 Section 1 HospitalProfile Section 2 IT Adoption & Use Profile Section 3 Respondent’s Information Thailand’s Health IT Adoption
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    75 • 4 of1,302 hospitals ineligible • Response rate 69.9% Characteristic Overall Responding Hospitals Non- Responding Hospitals N of eligible hospitals 1,298 908 390 Bed size** 106.9 117.5 82.9 Public status** Private Public 24.0% 76.0% 17.4% 82.6% 39.2% 60.8% Geography* Central East North Northeast South West 33.4% 7.5% 11.1% 27.1% 15.3% 5.6% 31.1% 7.8% 13.5% 26.9% 14.9% 5.8% 39.0% 6.7% 5.4% 27.7% 16.2% 5.1% *p < 0.01, **p < 0.001. Nationwide Survey Results
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    76Pongpirul et al.,2004 Vendor/Product Distribution (2004)
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    78 Estimate (Partial orComplete Adoption) Nationwide Basic EHR, outpatient 86.6% Basic EHR, inpatient 50.4% Basic EHR, both settings 49.8% Comprehensive EHR, outpatient 10.6% Comprehensive EHR, inpatient 5.7% Comprehensive EHR, both settings 5.3% Order entry of medications, outpatient 96.5% Order entry of medications, inpatient 91.4% Order entry of medications, both settings 90.2% Order entry of all orders, outpatient 88.6% Order entry of all orders, inpatient 81.7% Order entry of all orders, both settings 79.4% Health IT Adoption Estimates
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    79 • High ITadoption rates • Drastic changes in adoption landscape • Local context might play a role – Supply Side – Demand Side • International Comparison – Relatively higher adoption THAIS: Discussion
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    80 Outline Health & HealthInformation Health IT & eHealth Health Informatics as a Discipline Thailand’s eHealth Situation • Current Forces
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    82 International • Technology Trends •Standards & Interoperability Trends • eHealth Successes & Failures – UK NHS – US Meaningful Use – Nordic Countries • International eHealth Networks – International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) – American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) – Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) Current Forces
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    83 URGES Member States: (1)to consider, as appropriate, options to collaborate with relevant stakeholders, including national authorities, relevant ministries, health care providers, and academic institutions, in order to draw up a road map for implementation of ehealth and health data standards at national and subnational levels; (2) to consider developing, as appropriate, policies and legislative mechanisms linked to an overall national eHealth strategy, in order to ensure compliance in the adoption of ehealth and health data standards by the public and private sectors, as appropriate, and the donor community, as well as to ensure the privacy of personal clinical data; http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA66/A66_R24-en.pdf World Health Assembly Resolution WHA66.24 (2013) on eHealth Standardization & Interoperability
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    84 (3) to considerways for ministries of health and public health authorities to work with their national representatives on the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee in order to coordinate national positions towards the delegation, governance and operation of health-related global top-level domain names in all languages, including “.health”, in the interest of public health; http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA66/A66_R24-en.pdf World Health Assembly Resolution WHA66.24 (2013) on eHealth Standardization & Interoperability
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    85 Domestic • Thailand’s HealthInsurance Trends • Increased Hospital IT Adoption • Demands for Data & Information Exchange in Thailand’s Healthcare • Thailand’s e-Transaction Trends • Consumer IT Behavior Trends Current Forces
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    86 Outline Health & HealthInformation Health IT & eHealth Health Informatics as a Discipline Thailand’s eHealth Situation Current Forces
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