HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS HIS at The General Authority for Health Services for the Emirate of A

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HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (HIS)
at The General Authority for Health Services
for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi (GAHS)
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• Building Integrated Networks for Better
• More Efficient Care

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PAST Lack of Electronic Information Systems
Manual Data Management
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HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMPAST

• Manual paper files patient data
• Inconsistent
• Incomplete
• Imprecise
• Unreliable

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HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMPAST

• Multiple patient file numbers across Abu Dhabi
  Emirate facilities lead to
• Bad prognosis
• Inefficient use of human resources
• Misuse wastage of medicines consumables
• Absence of accurate comprehensive information
  for planning and decision making

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HIS - PRESENT
Health Facilities disconnected
from each other GAHS
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HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM PRESENT

• Un-unified hospital information systems are in
  place
• Primitive information systems are installed in
  some primary health care centers
• GAHS is in the final stage of negotiating with
  Cerner Company to implement Cerner Health
  Information System in Abu Dhabi health care
  facilities connected to GAHS

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HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM - FUTURE
ACCESS FROM ANY PLACE AT ANY TIME
CENTRAL HIS
INTERNET GATEWAY
ASDL
Patients Home
GSM
WAN
WAN
LAN
Inside Hospital
Across Hospitals
Ambulances
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THE FUTURE
EPR

• Create a comprehensive Electronic Patient
• Record
• One person One record across Abu Dhabi
  Emirate
• Provide access
• For the right individual
• To the right information
• At the right time

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THE FUTURE
QUALITY OF CARE

• Support best practice based medicine through
• Clinical Guidelines
• Clinical Pathways
• In order to
• Drive out variability in health care
• Permit variance analysis
• Ensure consistent quality of care

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THE FUTURE
BEST PRACTICE

• Improve quality of care patient safety through
• integration of activities across hospital
• e.g. Medical Services, Radiology, Laboratory,
  
• Pharmacy Nursing
• Leading to
• Optimization of decision making
• Drug interaction warnings (when
• prescribing medications)
• Patient risk flags (when delivering care)

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THE FUTURE
TIMELINE

• Improve timeline of care delivery through
• standardization of procedures across the
  healthcare enterprise including, and not limited
  to
• Registration
• Ordering
• Scheduling
• Clinical documentation

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THE FUTURE
COST

• Reduce cost through
• Increased clinical productivity
• Decreased medical errors incidents
• Increase quality of care
• Eliminating duplication of services
• Reduction in medicines consumables
• consumption
• Online paramedical services (e.g. Radiology)

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THE FUTURE
HEALTH STATISITICS INFORMATION

• Availability of accurate complete health
  statistics information permits
• Decision making based on accurate information
• Taking appropriate actions at the right time
• Proper planning based on reliable information
• Ability to evaluate health services,
  interventions,
• programs and projects
• Continuous improving of health care delivery

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THE FUTURE
ACCREDITATION

• The availability of HIS is a basic requirement
  for JCIA
• HIS allows us to monitor the compliance of our
  health facilities with JCIA and undertake
  corrective measures promptly

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THANK YOU