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The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System [1] (PROMIS) provides clinicians and researchers access to reliable, valid, and flexible measures of health status that assess physical, mental, and social well–being from the patient perspective. PROMIS measures are standardized, allowing for assessment of many patient-reported ...
Health Communications Network was acquired by Primary Healthcare Ltd in February 2005. [2]The company was rebranded as MedicalDirector in 2014. [3] MedicalDirector provides electronic health records, patient management, billing, scheduling, care coordination, information on medicines, clinical content, and population health management services for general practitioners, and specialists in the ...
A Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) is a computerized tool designed to assist healthcare providers in making clinical decisions by integrating medical knowledge with patient data. These systems utilize algorithms, databases, and patient information to provide tailored recommendations, alerts, and reminders to healthcare professionals at ...
At present, individual health data are located primarily on paper in physicians' files. Patient portals have been developed to give patients better access to their information. Given patient mobility and the development of clear interoperable standards, the best documentation of patient medical history may involve data stored outside physician ...
The patient health record is the primary legal record documenting the health care services provided to a person in any aspect of the health care system. The term includes routine clinical or office records, records of care in any health related setting, preventive care, lifestyle evaluation, research protocols and various clinical databases.
[9] [10] [2] Patient-centered outcomes research involves questions and outcomes that are "meaningful and important to patients and caregivers" [11] in order to help those individuals make informed decisions for their own care. As of 2019, there have been 65 research standards developed to support patient-centered outcomes research. [12]
A hospital information system (HIS) is an element of health informatics that focuses mainly on the administrational needs of hospitals.In many implementations, a HIS is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage all the aspects of a hospital's operation, such as medical, administrative, financial, and legal issues and the corresponding processing of services.
RHIOs are also intended to support secondary use of clinical data for research as well as institution/provider quality assessment and improvement. [1] RHIO stakeholders include smaller clinics, hospitals, medical societies, major employers and payers. RHIOs are intended to be key to the proposed US Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).