Three healthcare information systems include administrative, clinical and subject/task based health information systems. Clinical information systems (CIS) focus on the collection, storage, manipulation, and access clinical of information that is essential for the delivery of healthcare process. Accordingly, CIS provide clinical data repository that contains information such as patient’s illness history as well as their interaction with healthcare providers (Wager, 2013). On the other hand, administrative information systems are widely designed to provide technical and programming support services to a health organization or institution’s administrative department. They support various accounting, payroll, human resource, and business functions.
The subject or tasked based information systems are widely designed to depend on the task or the subject. The subject-based system focuses on a particular thing in an organization, such as a doctor or a patient, while the task-based system focuses on supporting a particular task.
Common Features
Health information systems encompass various technologies in the healthcare field that are used for acquiring, storing, delivering and analysing medical data (Wager, 2013). In most instances, all of them are computerized information systems. Furthermore, they receive data (inputs) which is processed and then produced as output.
Different Features
Clinical information systems can be limited to as particular area, such as laboratory systems, or they can be widespread within a health care system to include nearly clinical information aspects. The administrative information systems encompass information technology that is necessary for supporting core hospital functions such as nursing documentation, electronic medical records, medication administration, staff scheduling, accounting, and HR-related information. On the other hand, subject/task information systems are defined by task or subject. for example, electronic health/patient record.
Can you tell from the sites you visited at what type of facility the system is directed? Would these Internet sites be helpful to an organization investigating implementing an clinical information system
Reference
Wager, A. (2013). Health care information systems: A practical approach for health care management. New York: Prentice Hall Press.
