Healthc Inform Res.  2010 Sep;16(3):191-197. 10.4258/hir.2010.16.3.191.

Asan Medical Information System for Healthcare Quality Improvement

• Ryu HJ
• Kim WS
• Lee JH
• Min SW
• Kim SJ
• Lee YS
• Lee YH
• Nam SW
• Eo GS
• Seo SG
• Nam MH

• KMID: 2284532
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4258/hir.2010.16.3.191

Abstract

OBJECTIVES
This purpose of this paper is to introduce the status of the Asan Medical Center (AMC) medical information system with respect to healthcare quality improvement.
METHODS
Asan Medical Information System (AMIS) is projected to become a completely electronic and digital information hospital. AMIS has played a role in improving the health care quality based on the following measures: safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, privacy, and security.
RESULTS
AMIS consisted of several distinctive systems: order communication system, electronic medical record, picture archiving communication system, clinical research information system, data warehouse, enterprise resource planning, IT service management system, and disaster recovery system. The most distinctive features of AMIS were the high alert-medication recognition & management system, the integrated and severity stratified alert system, the integrated patient monitoring system, the perioperative diabetic care monitoring and support system, and the clinical indicator management system.
CONCLUSIONS
AMIS provides IT services for AMC, 7 affiliated hospitals and over 5,000 partners clinics, and was developed to improve healthcare services. The current challenge of AMIS is standard and interoperability. A global health IT strategy is needed to get through the current challenges and to provide new services as needed.

Keyword

Hospital Information Systems; Quality of Health Care; Clinical Decision Support Systems; Electronic Medical Record

MeSH Terms

Decision Support Systems, Clinical
Delivery of Health Care
Disasters
Electronic Health Records
Electronics
Electrons
Hospital Information Systems
Information Systems
Monitoring, Physiologic
Privacy
Quality of Health Care

Figure

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  Figure 1 Diagram of Asan Medical Center (AMC) health IT services.

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  Figure 2 Example window of high alert-medication recognition and management system.

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  Figure 3 Example window of integrated patient monitoring system.

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  Figure 4 Example window of clinical indicator management system.

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