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Categorization of Health IT Components

Started by Jonathan Payne on 09 Jul 2009

I am working on developing a Health IT Ontology, or a delineation of the different type of information technologies that compose HIT. This has turned out to be a complex task, because the list is never ending and there are many paradigms for developing these categories. For example: government, hospital, and ambulatory; or operational, financial, and clinical. Please take a look at the current version below or on my blog (http://singularityblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/components-of-hit-a-start/). Any feedback is appreciated and I will update the HIT Ontology as appropriate.

Here's the current breakdown:

HIT Ontology - Take 5

• Clinical
   ○ EMR/EHR
      - Ambulatory
      - Specialty
      - Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) Focused (common in areas with high HIV/AIDS & TB prevalence)
   ○ eRx (CPOE)
   ○ Clinical Decision Support
   ○ Digital Imaging & Archiving Systems (e.g. PACS)
   ○ Medical Devices & Equipment
   ○ Clinical Document Management
   ○ "Personalized Medicine"
• Hospital/Clinic Management
   ○ Physician Office Management Information System (POMIS)
   ○ Hospital Management Information System (HMIS)
   ○ Accounting
   ○ Patient Billing
   ○ Claims Processing
   ○ Human Resource Management
   ○ OR Scheduling
   ○ Appointment Scheduling
   ○ Lab/Pharmacy Management
• Public Health & Biosurveillance
   ○ Public Health Reporting
   ○ Diesease Surveillance Networks (e.g. CDC Biomonitoring and Environmental Public Health Tracking Network)
   ○ Vital Registry (Birth, Death, & Marraige Records)
• Consumer-Oriented Technologies
   ○ Personal Health Devices (e.g. WAN-enabled weight scale, phone-enabled glucose monitor, etc.)
   ○ Personal Health Applications (i.e. exercise & weight tracking)
   ○ Patient Portals
   ○ Personal Health Records (PHR)
   ○ Health-centered Social Networks (Patients Like Me, 23andme, etc.)
• Medical References
   ○ Drug references (e.g. Up To Date, drugs.com)
   ○ Medical references (like WebMD, also for docs and patients)
   ○ Medical Coding Technologies (ICD9, HL7, etc.)
• Research
   ○ Genomics
   ○ Medical data warehousing
   ○ Clinical Trial Recruitment, Management, etc.
• Regional & Systems Level Health Information Systems
   ○ Vitals Registration
   ○ Health Information Exchange (HIE)
   ○ National Health Information Network (NHIN)

Thanks,
Jon

Keywords: HIT 

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