Assessing Health Information Technology in a National Health Care System – An Example from Taiwan

Chi, Chunhuei; Lee, Jwo-Leun; Schoon, Rebecca

doi:10.1108/s1474-8231(2012)0000012008

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“…It has covered more than 99.6% of Taiwan's citizens since 1999 (Bureau of National Health Insurance, 2012; Chi, Lee, & Schoon, 2012). The NHI Research Database (NHIRD) inpatient and outpatient claims dataset includes variables such as encrypted patient identification numbers, gender, birthdate, dates of visits, admissions, and discharges, three diagnostic codes for outpatient claims and five diagnosis codes and five procedure codes for inpatient claims, drug prescriptions, fees paid for various kinds of medical services, characteristics of medical settings, and disposition after discharge (Hsiao, Yang, Huang, & Huang, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

Estimating the prevalence of cerebral palsy in Taiwan: A comparison of different case definitions

Chang

Ing

2015

Research in Developmental Disabilities

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Estimating the prevalence of cerebral palsy in Taiwan: A comparison of different case definitions

Chang

Ing

2015

Research in Developmental Disabilities

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“…Twenty-two articles were systematic reviews, including a review of syndromic surveillance classifiers [24], the use of IIS for research [25], the use of social networking sites in public health [13], and information needs of public health practitioners [26]. Case studies were also present in 16 articles, summarizing the design or implementation of a PHI system within a single health department or group of organizations [27,28]. Ten studies were surveys, which employ quantitative methods to analyze respondents' answers to questions about PHI training programs [9]; the role of governance in guiding adoption and use of PHI systems [29]; public health engagement in health information exchange [30]; or characterizing the quality of data in an electronic information system [31,32].…”

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“…Funding patterns explain, in part, what appears to be a more balanced portfolio of PHI activities with a strong but smaller emphasis on surveillance. In developed nations with a strong integrated public health system such as Canada [145,146], Australia [147], Taiwan [27] and several European nations [148][149][150], PHI activities include an emphasis on integrating data and supporting bi-directional communication between clinical and public health services. Whereas in the US, PHI efforts have focused largely on EHR incentive policies that seek to improve how public health agencies gather the data they need to monitor the health of populations [29,33,151].…”

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What’s Past is Prologue: A Scoping Review of Recent Public and Global Health Informatics Literature

Dixon

Pina

Kharrazi

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Objective: To categorize and describe the public health informatics (PHI) and global health informatics (GHI) literature between 2012 and 2014.Methods: We conducted a semi-systematic review of articles published between January 2012 and September 2014 where information and communications technologies (ICT) was a primary subject of the study or a main component of the study methodology. Additional inclusion and exclusion criteria were used to filter PHI and GHI articles from the larger biomedical informatics domain. Articles were identified using MEDLINE as well as personal bibliographies from members of the American Medical Informatics Association PHI and GHI working groups.Results: A total of 85 PHI articles and 282 GHI articles were identified. While systems in PHI continue to support surveillance activities, we identified a shift towards support for prevention, environmental health, and public health care services. Furthermore, articles from the U.S. reveal a shift towards PHI applications at state and local levels. GHI articles focused on telemedicine, mHealth and eHealth applications. The development of adequate infrastructure to support ICT remains a challenge, although we identified a small but growing set of articles that measure the impact of ICT on clinical outcomes.Discussion: There is evidence of growth with respect to both implementation of information systems within the public health enterprise as well as a widening of scope within each informatics discipline. Yet the articles also illuminate the need for more primary research studies on what works and what does not as both searches yielded small numbers of primary, empirical articles.Conclusion: While the body of knowledge around PHI and GHI continues to mature, additional studies of higher quality are needed to generate the robust evidence base needed to support continued investment in ICT by governmental health agencies.

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“…Taiwan embarked on healthcare reform in the 1980s, after two decades of economic growth (Reid, 2008a). The government of Taiwan formed the National Health Insurance (NHI) system on March 1st 1995, providing universal health insurance coverage (Chunhuei et al, 2012). The model has many similarities to Medicare in the United States.…”

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Tracking Future Path of Consumers' Empowerment in E-Health

Anshari

Almunawar

2015

International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications

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Developments in ICT have created a new generation of networking technology that affects all areas, including healthcare. The use of ICT in healthcare organizations, for example in health information systems (HIS), has developed the same way as the wider landscape, and includes the use of Internet-based technology. The adoption of social network features as the ‘front end' of electronic health (e-health) systems is believed to boost sharing between consumers, leading to greater satisfaction. E-health is likely to become more consumer-centric, accommodating consumers' participation in the healthcare process, including decision-making. The government of Taiwan has successfully implemented a National Health Insurance (NHI) system as the foundation for e-health. Improvements in technology may drive changing consumer behavior concerning healthcare services. This paper addresses some important concepts, milestones, challenges, and future direction of consumer empowerment in Taiwan, and proposes that empowerment will be personal, social, and medical.

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Assessing Health Information Technology in a National Health Care System – An Example from Taiwan

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Estimating the prevalence of cerebral palsy in Taiwan: A comparison of different case definitions

Estimating the prevalence of cerebral palsy in Taiwan: A comparison of different case definitions

What’s Past is Prologue: A Scoping Review of Recent Public and Global Health Informatics Literature

Tracking Future Path of Consumers' Empowerment in E-Health

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