Question

While there are several EHR implementation instances in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia capable of collecting data from individual patients, there is an immense need of integration systems to interlink the EHRs installations to make them interoperable and to generate aggregated data. Explain why the public health professionals are more interested in aggregated data rather than individual data and clarify the importance of these integration and data exchange systems for the field of public health informatics in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? Give examples of this type of systems worldwide

Answer 1

Integrated data or aggregated data is some up of the different sub parts data . In healthcare system it has become a worldwide trend to use or focus on the coordinated or integrated forms of care provision .

The first reason behind the use of aggregated data by health care professional is that it provides you the brief summary of the care provided to the patient in which all important instances are mentioned clearly. It makes easy for the healthcare professionals to gather information related to patient and take immediate action which is both timely and appropriate .

Second reason is that integrated data is easy to exchange between the healthcare system which include the vedio and audio data without any interruption.

Integrated data system helps the healthcare to achieve the triple aim - cost efficiency , better quality care and population health . That's why more preference is given to aggregated data in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . Example of this type of systems used worldwide are iPatientCare and cureMD.