Health Informatics

Bacon County Hospital and Health System offers a variety of services to patients, including Emergency, Long-term care, Laboratory, X-ray, ICU, various therapies, Obstetrics, surgery, Pharmacy, and Patient Education (Bacon County Hospital and Health System). The health informatics system has various inputs of patient information, including payment and insurance information, diagnosis, health status, reactions to various treatments, tests performed, medications, allergies, etc. Information is input from staff members from various departments. The information is then processed for various outputs to stakeholders, such as physicians, patients, and institutional leaders.

The health informatics system is designed to capture coded demographics, co-morbidity, treatment, and outcomes data into a centralized data repository, or database, measure concordance of treatment given to care guidelines, or benchmarks, analyze associations between patient outcomes and patient demographics, treatment factors, and facility characteristics (Niland, 2006). The system follows a client-server model with web interfaces over a robust security framework...
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