EMERGINGROLEOFICTINMEDICAL EDUCATIONANDHEALTHCARE

Authors MuhammadAfzal,MaqboolHussain,HafizFarooqAhmad,Noor Ul Qayyum

NUSTSchoolofElectricalEngineeringandComputerScience,Islamabad Pakistan.

Future of ICT in Healthcare

Todaysworldisofglobalization InformationandCommunicationTechnology (ICT) isdiffusingitsservicestodiversedomains. MedicalandHealthcareisintimatelyassociated withhumanlives. SoignoringICTinmedicalandhealthcareisnot affordable.

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Presentation Outlines
Background
ICT and Importance of ICT Healthcare with ICT and without ICT. Levels of ICT

Global ICT activities HLH Project

Objectives Different Flavors of HLH Outputs of this project

Conclusion
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Background

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ICT and Importance of ICT

ICTisacombinationofthreewords;
Information Communication Technology

storage,retrieval,manipulation, transmissionofinformation

ICTcanbeunderstoodonlybyitsusesandapplications. ICT;

bridgingdistances providemorerealisticinformationonlifeelsewhere providehealthinformation,includingonsensitiveissues

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GlobalICTActivities
(Healthcare)

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MALAYSIA

HealthVision2020
Malaysiais tobea nationof healthy individuals, familiesand communities

Achievingthisvision;
Telehealth Services HealthOnline TelePrimaryCare (TPC) LifeTimeHealthPlan Teleconsultation

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INDIA
1.Telemedicine

2.HRPortalforHealthDepartment
Takingmodernhealthcareto remoteareasusingICTas specialistsarecitybased

3.IntegratedDiseaseSurveillance Project
Decreaseinpriceand complexityandIncreasing availability

Toestablishadecentralizedstatebasedsystem ofsurveillanceforcommunicableandnon communicablediseases

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Pakistan
1.NationalProgramforFamilyPlanningandPrimaryHealth Care NationalICTR&DFundsisplayingamarvelousroleto promoteICTinhealthcare.Itprovidesfundsforprojects;
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RemotePatientMonitoring SystemwithFocuson AntenatalCareforRural Population

InprogressasFASTUniversity

HealthLifeHorizon:
OpenSourceHL7V3 ApplicationforeHealth Services
InprogressasNUSTUniversity

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Information ExchangewithHL7

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Levels of ICT and our Interest

Weare working onthis level

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Introduction to HL7
StandardDevelopingOrganization
ANSIaccredited NonforprofitVolunteerorganization Developspecificationsnotsoftware HL7 provides standards for interoperability that improve care delivery, optimize workflow, reduce ambiguity and enhance knowledge transfer among all of our stakeholders, including healthcare providers, government agencies, the vendor community, fellow SDOs and patients.
Vision

Tocreatethebestandmostwidelyusedstandardsinhealthcare.
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Information Exchange and Interoperability

Hospital Management System
HL7 V.3 Application

Data

Laboratory Information System

HL7 V.3 Application

HL7applicationwillactasmiddlewareusedin samewayforotherHealthcareSystems.

Data

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Some Facts and Figures

Healthcareisa$1.7trilliondollarindustry: highlyfragmentedandhighlycompetitive. Everyyearatleast98,000Americansdieandmillions moreareinjuredasaresultofmedicalerrors.

Standardizedinformationexchangewould savethenation$86.8Billioneachyear

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HealthLifeHorizon
Project

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Health Life Horizon Project

(Funded by National ICT R&D Funds)
Standard HL7 Domains
HL7 Version 3 Laboratory Domain

Research

Patient Administration Domain

SOA for HL7

HLH

Ontology based HL7

Adapter
HL7 V2 & V3 Conversion

Transportation
Web Services MLLP ebXML
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Project Objectives
IndustrialObjective

AvailabilityofopensourceHL7version3 Revenuegenerationfromcustomization AcademiaIndustryCollaboration HL7CertificationTraining ServiceOrientatedHL7 OntologybasedHL7

ITprofessionalsandresearcherstrainingonHL7 Bunchofopportunitiesforyoungresearchers ProduceHL7expertsaroundtheworld HL7affiliations
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AcademicObjective

ResearchObjective

HumanResource DevelopmentObjective

OtherObjective

HL7 Affiliates
Morethan500organizationmembersofHL7 Morethan2200individualmembersofHL7 FromPakistanwearethefirst

USA

Turkey

Taiwan

Switzerland

Sweden

Spain

Japan

Korea

Italy

Greece

Germany

France

Finland

Colombia

Denmark

Czech

UK

China

Chile

Canada

Brazil

Austria

Australia

Argentina

Mexico

New Zealand

Romania

Netherland

Uruguay

India

SouthAfrica

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Conclusion

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Conclusion
Role of ICT is increasing all over the world. Responsibility as a nation to incorporate ICT as much as possible. Needed healthcare communication with standards Purpose to get better patient care.
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Any Query / Suggestion?

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References
Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS, eds, To Err is Human : Building a Safer Health System, Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1999. Walker, Eric Pan, Douglas Johnston, Julia Adler-Milstein, David W. Bates, and Blackford Middleton, The value of Health Care Information Exchange and Interoperability. Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 1997 Leadership Survey. www.hl7.org http//:Hl7.niit.edu.pk
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Motivation
Creatingawarenessandimportanceof ICTinHealthcare SharingviewsandinterestsofICTExperts withMedicalandHealthcareExperts. HighlightstheinitiativestopromoteICTin Healthcare.
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One Scenario
Patient requeststo orderatest. BranchAcollects thetestorder (plusspecimenif required). Sendstothe BranchB through courierservice
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Thedesireddepartment performsthetestand sendstheresultsbackto Mr.Smith.

Mr.SmithatBranchBrecordsthe informationandsendsthe generatedtestordertothe referencedepartment.

Mr.Smithfeed resultstothe systemand generatethetest resultreport.

Thetestresults dictatedtothe BranchAvia phone.

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BranchAagainfeed andgeneratethe reportandhands overtothepatient

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Healthcare and ICT

MedicalandHealthcareis;

relatedtopersonallife andnoaspectofhumanlifehasescapedtheimpactoftheInformation Age andperhapsinnoareaoflifeisinformationmorecriticalthaninhealth andmedicine.

TodaysMedicalEducationwithoutICTmeans;
ConventionalMedicalEducation

TodayhealthcarewithoutICTmeans;
poorpatientcare

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USA
Healthcareisa$1.7trilliondollarindustry: highlyfragmentedandhighlycompetitive. Everyyearatleast98,000Americansdieandmillions moreareinjuredasaresultofmedicalerrors.

NewelectedUSpresidentBarackObamavision; Affordableandaccessiblehealthcaretoall

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