- Contributors
- 1 The Healthcare System
- 2 Healthcare and the Electronic Health Record
- 3 Data, Information, and Knowledge
- 4 People
- 5 Policies, Laws, Regulations, Contracts, and Procedures
- 6 Process
- 7 Representation and Organization of Health Information
- 8 Basics of Computers
- 9 Design of the Core Healthcare Operating System
- 10 Data Repositories
- 11 Decision-Making
- 12 Information Systems Strategy and Administration
- 13 Large-Project Management
- 14 Clinician Interface and Experience
- 15 Access and Access Controls
- 16 Analytics
- 17 Decision Support
- 18 Security and Privacy
- 19 Data Science
- 20 Enabling Technologies
- 21 Clinical Teams
- 22 Patients and Families
- 23 Body, Home, and Community
- 24 Specialties
- 25 Health Information Exchange in Practice
- 26 Population Health Management
- 27 Researchers
- 28 On the Horizon
- 29 Staying Current
- Appendix 1 Case Discussions
- Appendix 2 Self-Assessment
- Appendix 3 Reference Data
- Index
(p. 45) Representation and Organization of Health Information
- Chapter:
- (p. 45) Representation and Organization of Health Information
- Author(s):
Karl E. Misulis
, and Mark E. Frisse
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780190855574.003.0007
Data must be represented and organized in ways that improve individual care and support databases designed to improve care delivery, reporting, and research. There are innumerable potential data sources, but discussed in this chapter are some of the most important data sources for healthcare. Clinical data include all of the locally stored, clinically relevant data. These include demographics as well as actual medical data. If a health information exchange is functioning, then data from that exchange may be included to a variable extent. Different applications require different ways of modeling and storing data. These tasks require trade-offs between computable data representations and less structured elements.
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- Contributors
- 1 The Healthcare System
- 2 Healthcare and the Electronic Health Record
- 3 Data, Information, and Knowledge
- 4 People
- 5 Policies, Laws, Regulations, Contracts, and Procedures
- 6 Process
- 7 Representation and Organization of Health Information
- 8 Basics of Computers
- 9 Design of the Core Healthcare Operating System
- 10 Data Repositories
- 11 Decision-Making
- 12 Information Systems Strategy and Administration
- 13 Large-Project Management
- 14 Clinician Interface and Experience
- 15 Access and Access Controls
- 16 Analytics
- 17 Decision Support
- 18 Security and Privacy
- 19 Data Science
- 20 Enabling Technologies
- 21 Clinical Teams
- 22 Patients and Families
- 23 Body, Home, and Community
- 24 Specialties
- 25 Health Information Exchange in Practice
- 26 Population Health Management
- 27 Researchers
- 28 On the Horizon
- 29 Staying Current
- Appendix 1 Case Discussions
- Appendix 2 Self-Assessment
- Appendix 3 Reference Data
- Index
