You Decide!

As a healthcare worker, you have to make a lot of important decisions. After all, these decisions affect the health of many individuals. Before, healthcare providers used what they learned from their apprenticeship and experience to make healthcare decisions. This evolved into the creation of clinical practice guidelines, documents that give guiding decisions and criteria for diagnosis and management in specific topics of health. At the present age of evidence-based medicine, modern guidelines use multiple clinical studies as basis for clinical guidelines. 

Interop Co-op

Interoperability - according to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), it is “the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and use the information that has been exchanged.” Practically, it is the “ability of health information systems to work together within and across organizational boundaries in order to advance the effective delivery of healthcare for individuals and communities.”

It’s Personal

When we go to a health center or hospital, the health care personnel have to ask us a lot of information. What’s your name? How old are you? What’s the reason you consulted today? Do you have any other illnesses? Are you taking any medicine? Do you smoke? Does any members of your family have a similar illness? All these things are important for them to determine if you’re well or not, and if you are sick, what that sickness could possibly be and how they can help to diagnose or treat it.