EMERGING ROLE OF ICT IN MEDICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE Authors Muhammad Afzal, Maqbool Hussain, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Noor Ul Qayyum
NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Islamabad – Pakistan.
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Future of ICT in Healthcare Today’s world is of globalization Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is diffusing its services to diverse domains. Medical and Healthcare is intimately associated with human lives. So ignoring ICT in medical and healthcare is not 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 Muhammad Afzal, NUST SEECS
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Background
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ICT and Importance of ICT ICT is a combination of three words; • Information • Communication
storage, retrieval, manipulation, transmission of information
• Technology
ICT can be understood only by its uses and applications. ICT;
¾ bridging distances ¾ provide more realistic information on life elsewhere ¾ provide health information, including on sensitive issues Muhammad Afzal, NUST SEECS
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Global ICT Activities (Healthcare)
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MALAYSIA
Health Vision 2020 Malaysia is to be a nation of healthy individuals, families and communities
Achieving this vision; Telehealth Services • Health Online TelePrimaryCare (TPC) • Life Time Health Plan • Teleconsultation
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INDIA 1. Telemedicine
2. HR Portal for Health Department Taking modern healthcare to remote areas using ICT as specialists are city based
3. Integrated Disease Surveillance Project Decrease in price and complexity and Increasing availability
To establish a decentralized state based system of surveillance for communicable and non‐ communicable diseases
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Pakistan 1. National Program for Family Planning and Primary Health Care National ICT R&D Funds is playing a marvelous role to promote ICT in healthcare. It provides funds for projects; 1
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Health Life Horizon:
Remote Patient Monitoring System with Focus on Antenatal Care for Rural Population
Open Source HL7 V3 Application for e‐Health Services
In progress as FAST University
In progress as NUST University
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Information Exchange with HL7
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Levels of ICT and our Interest
We are working on this level Muhammad Afzal, NUST SEECS
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Introduction to HL7 • Standard Developing Organization • ANSI accredited • Non‐for‐profit Volunteer organization
Vision
• Develop specifications not software 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.
To create the best and most widely used standards in healthcare. Muhammad Afzal, NUST SEECS
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Information Exchange and Interoperability Hospital Management System HL7 V.3 Application
Data
Laboratory Information System HL7 V.3 Application
HL7 application will act as middleware used in same way for other Healthcare Systems.
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Data
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Some Facts and Figures Healthcare is a $1.7 trillion dollar industry: highly fragmented and highly competitive. “Every year at least 98,000 Americans die and millions more are injured as a result of medical errors“.
“Standardized information exchange would save the nation $86.8 Billion each year”
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Health Life Horizon Project
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Health Life Horizon Project (Funded by National ICT R&D Funds) Standard HL7 Domains HL7 Version 3
Research
Laboratory Domain
Patient Administration Domain
SOA for HL7
HLH
Ontology based HL7
Adapter HL7 V2 & V3 Conversion
Transportation Web Services
MLLP
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Project Objectives Industrial Objective
• Availability of open source HL7 version 3 • Revenue generation from customization
Academic Objective
• Academia‐Industry Collaboration • HL7 Certification Training
Research Objective
• Service Orientated HL7 • Ontology‐based HL7
Human Resource Development Objective
Other Objective
• IT professionals and researchers training on HL7 • Bunch of opportunities for young researchers • Produce HL7 experts around the world • HL7 affiliations Muhammad Afzal, NUST SEECS
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HL7 Affiliates More than 500 organization members of HL7 More than 2200 individual members of HL7
From Pakistan we are the first
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
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Uruguay
India
South Africa
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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. Muhammad Afzal, NUST SEECS
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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.
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Walker, Eric Pan, Douglas Johnston, Julia Adler-Milstein, David W. Bates, and Blackford Middleton, “The value of Health Care Information Exchange and Interoperability”.
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Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 1997 Leadership Survey.
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www.hl7.org
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http//:Hl7.niit.edu.pk Muhammad Afzal, NUST SEECS
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Motivation Creating awareness and importance of ICT in Healthcare Sharing views and interests of ICT Experts with Medical and Healthcare Experts. Highlights the initiatives to promote ICT in Healthcare. Muhammad Afzal, NUST SEECS
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One Scenario Patient requests to order a test.
Branch A collects the test order (plus specimen if required).
The desired department performs the test and sends the results back to Mr. Smith.
Mr. Smith feed results to the system and generate the test result report.
Sends to the Branch B through courier service
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Mr. Smith at Branch B records the information and sends the generated test order to the reference department.
The test results dictated to the Branch A via phone. Muhammad Afzal, NUST SEECS
Branch A again feed and generate the report and hands over to the patient .
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Healthcare and ICT Medical and Healthcare is;
• related to personal life • and no aspect of human life has escaped the impact of the Information Age • and perhaps in no area of life is information more critical than in health and medicine.
Today’s Medical Education without ICT means; • Conventional Medical Education
Today healthcare without ICT means; • poor patient care
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USA Healthcare is a $1.7 trillion dollar industry: highly fragmented and highly competitive. “Every year at least 98,000 Americans die and millions more are injured as a result of medical errors“.
New elected US president Barack Obama vision; Affordable and accessible healthcare to all
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