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Impact of the Informatics on Epidemiology and
Health Care Management
Orlando Carnota Lauzán, PhD
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Orlando Carnota Lauzán, PhD Degree on Economics,
University of Havana, Cuba. PhD in Informatics
and Management, Caroline University of Prague,
Czech Republic. Professor and researcher at
Havana University and at Cuban National School of
Public Health
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Learning objectives

• To understand the concept of networking
• To introduce the concept of medical informatics
• To understand the impact of informatics to health
  systems

Aprendiendo Internet
Learning Internet
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Perfomance objetives

• Establish the impacts of informatics on specific
  situations
• Evaluate proposals for the introduction of
  medical informatics
• Promote the introduction of medical informatics
  on Epidemiology and Health Care Management.

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Information Technology
Overall transformation
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Informatics and Health Care Services
Health services are making important progress on
the introduction of Informatics to the clinic and
management operations, trying to improve the
quality of services, to reduce costs and to
promote interconsult to a worldwide scale.
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Networking and Informatics
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Medical Informatics
Medical Databases Electronic Medical
Records On-Line Clinical Information Internal and
Extended Integration Medical Informatics
Societies New Users for Health Information
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Medical Data Bases
General purpose Significant Evidence-based
medicine Sanitary Evaluation Guidelines Competiti
ve intelligence
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Medical Informatics Societies
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Electronic Medical Records
On-line data and imagery Permanent
actualization Simplified processes Multiple
accesses Epidemiological approach Evidence-based
medicine
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On-line Data and Imagery
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Permanent actualization
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Simplified processes
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Multiple accesses
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Epidemiological Approach
Health Statistics Emergency Health
Services On-line Interconsult Pharmacoepidemiology
International Scientific Interchange Health
Surveillance
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Evidence-based Medicine
Its combines the personal mastery with the best
available external evidences, in order to be
applied to the health care of individual patients
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Integrated Delivery Systems (IDSS)
It integrates different types of care providers,
looking for cost savings, improvement in the
quality of services, better opportunities when
buying and expansions of market share
They are based on integrated information networks
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Managed Care Programs (HMOs)
They are also integrated health care systems, but
medical care is provided to groups and
individuals for a set monthly premium
They are based on integrated information networks
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New Users for Health Information
Medical material suppliers Medical equipment
suppliers Pharmaceutical producers Insurance
companies
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Doctor-Patient Relationship
Selection of the care provider Patient
Education Doctor-Patient Roles
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The Impact and Its Consequences
Higher patient choice Losing Control
Risks Changing of roles Modification of Physician
Practices New Ways of Promoting Health
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Epidemiological and Management Impact
New Health Statistics Telemedicine Reengineering
of processes Interinstitucionality Cost-Effectiven
ess-Quality Relieving Third Level Congestion