The CIS...is watching you. Nevermind thats CIA.
- isad6002
- Mar 14, 2016
- 1 min read
Clinical information systems are automated systems with long term databases consisting of clinical information used for patient care. They aim to provide a consolidated state and nation wide system, enable WA health to maintain a health record for all patients, reduce the paper trail involved in record keeping and relieve barriers to allow health professionals to share patient information and clinical knowledge (Department of Health, 2016). In hospitals, CIS can be sectioned into 4 main subdomains. These include, notes and records, test results, order entry and decision support (Amarasingham, Plantinga, Diener-West, Gaskin, & Powe, 2009).
In a hospital setting CIS can look like this...
In an intensive care unit (ICU) reported in the United States (US) an average of 1100 data items are collected for every patient on a daily basis (Plenderleith, 2013). This data predominantly includes physiological measurements in addition to interventions, drug administrations and nursing/medical continuation notes. Conversely, a paper based system would foster inaccuracy due to issues such as illegibility (Plenderleith, 2013).
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