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Title: Integration Between Electronic Medical Records in Governmental Hospitals and Mother and Childhood e-Registry in Primary Health Care Clinics in Palestine رسالة ماجستير
Authors: Kamal, Dalal Ghassan Fouad$AAUP$Palestinian
Keywords: health informatics,public healyh,health management,information system,hospital user
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: AAUP
Abstract: In the last decade, many developments in health information systems in hospitals and primary health care clinics have been undertaken to collect, process, store, and transfer required information in order to use it in planning and decision-making at several levels of the health sector to, in turn, improve the quality of medical services and continuity of care. To increase the effectiveness of health services in Palestine, integration of HISs with Mother and Childhood care is crucial. The possibility of integration will be the cornerstone to investigate the continuity of care between hospitals and primary healthcare clinics, and will have a positive impact on improving the accuracy of Mother and Childhood dashboards in primary healthcare clinics. There is a lack of data exchange of electronic medical records between the Mother and Childhood e-Registry in primary healthcare clinics and the health information system in gynecology and obstetrics sections in governmental hospitals in Palestine. Therefore, this research was carried out in order to assess the opportunity for integrating electronic medical record between the health information system at governmental hospitals and the Mother and Childhood e-Registry in primary healthcare clinics in Palestine and identify potential areas in need of further development. In this research a mixed research methods were used in this study: the first was to revalidate data previously collected by the Palestinian National Institution of Public Health related to the needed data elements from the perspective of the health information system users in hospitals; the second was to collect quantitative data on the needed data elements from the Mother and Childhood e-Registry users’ perspective through an online questionnaire; the third method was to map the data in order to determine the best form for integrating the data from Avicenna Health Information System in gynecology and obstetrics sections in governmental hospitals through VI interviews with professionals in this system and with a professional in Palestinian Ministry of Health. Our study validated 152 data elements on both sides of the integration in 5 categories in Mother and Childhood e-Registry which are: Demographic data (MOTHER), Antenatal care visits, Lab tests results for Antenatal care visits and Post-Partum Care visits ( test name and date), Ultrasound in Antenatal care visits, Post-Partum Care visits, and Newborn care (Information for each baby if twins or more). And 13 categories in health information system which are: Mother Demographic Data, Past History /Mother, Present Pregnancy History /Mother, History Physical Exam /Mother, Delivery Information / Mother, Lab _ Result / Mother, Complications after delivery / Mother, Diagnosis in discharge/ Mother, Demographic Data for New Born, Newborn clinical information, Lab _ Result for Newborn, Medication & Vaccination for Newborn, and Complications Newborn. A proposed Application Programming Interface forms have been developed for the needed data elements to be exchanged between Mother and Childhood e-Registry and health information system Avicenna and vice versa. Additionally, a suggested data workflow integration was designed to ensure efficiency and quality in health services. Integration between the primary health care Mother and Childhood e-Registry and the health information system in gynecology and obstetrics sections in governmental hospitals is feasible and guidelines for such integration have been established
Description: Master’s degree in Health Informatics
URI: http://repository.aaup.edu/jspui/handle/123456789/2630
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