AMBULATOTY CARE

SYSTEMS
Part 2
Content
• AMBULATORY CARE
• AMBULATORY CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM
• ADVANTAGE OF AMBULATORY CARE INFORMATION
SYSTEM
• ISSUES IN AMBULATORY CARE INFORMATION
SYSTEM
• THE ROLE OF NURSE USING INFORMATION SYSTEM
IN THE AMBULATORY CARE SYSTEM
a. Ambulatory Care
Ambulatory Care
• Covers a wide range of health care
services that are provided for patients
who are not admitted overnight to a
hospital.
• These focuses on wellness, diagnosis,
treatment, and rehabilitation.
• These services are performed at outpatient
clinics, urgent care centers, emergency rooms,
ambulatory or same-day surgery centers,
diagnostic and imaging centers, primary care
centers, community health centers,
occupational health centers, mental health
clinics, and group practices.
Ambulatory Care Information
System

• Provides automated processing of data and

information such as allergies and medical alerts,
patients accounting system such as charging,
billing, discounts and concessions, and
diagnostics imaging treatments.
• With this system, the patient waiting time
is optimized through effective queue
management.

• It involves one-time registration required

per visit. It also facilitates the
management of doctors schedule.
Please Observe:
Advantages of Ambulatory Care
Information System
• Real-time and easy access to patient’s medical
records by healthcare providers.

• Improved workflow, which allows more time for

comprehensive patient counseling and review.

• Reduced errors with the availability of various

automation engines – drug interaction engine;
medical alert engine; patient billing engine, etc.
• Medical Search • Patient Billing
Engine; Engine;
• Automated and integrated back-end process
such as pharmacy, billing, purchasing, and
inventory management.

• Improved clinical outcome analysis –

enhanced research productivity through data
mining and facilitate institutional handling of
managed care challenges in a timely manner.
• Improvement in hospital inventory
management.

• Better monitoring and management of

costs – prescription, consumables, doctor’s
fees, etc.
Issues in Ambulatory Care Information
System

• Increased accountability
• The need for continuous support
• Privacy and confidentiality of information
• Accessibility and security of data and
information
• Integration and support to the other system
The Role of Nurse Using Information
System in the Ambulatory Care System
• The very basic objective of the automated
ambulatory care information system is to easily
integrate the data to the other data and easily
translate these data into information.

• The effective transformation of data can be

integrated to the other processes to transform it
into knowledge.
• The ambulatory care nurse and other health care
provider should be capable enough to implement
the process effectively.
Thank you!