AMBULAT

ORY CARE
SYSTEM
Prepared by: June Mirth S.
Apuhin

Ambulatory
Care
refers to a wide range of medical
services and procedures that are
conducted on an outpatient basis.

Ambulatory Care
Services includes:
Diagnosis
Observation
Consultation
Treatment
Intervention
Rehabilitation

services.

Where Ambulatory Clients

are Being Treated:
Ambulatory Clinics
Surgery Centers
Single and Multispecialty Group
Diagnostics Laboratory
Health Maintenance organizations
Independent physician organizations
Birthing Centers
College and Universities health
Services

Purpose:
The central purpose of an
ambulatory
care information system is to
communicate information to the
practitioner to facilitate clinical
decision making.

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.

Applications Necessary in the

Ambulatory Environment
are design to store

manipulate

retrieve information for

planning, organizing, directing,
and controlling administrative
clinical activities associated
with the provision and use of
ambulatory care services and
facilities

Advantages of Ambulatory
Care Information System
1)
2)

3)

4)

Real-time and easy access to patients

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.
Automated and integrated back-end
process such as pharmacy, billing,
purchasing, inventory management, etc.

Advantages
5. Improved clinical outcome analysis
enhanced research productivity
through data mining and facilitate
institutional handling of managed
care challenges in a timely manner.
6. Improvement in hospital inventory
management.
7. Better monitoring and
management of costs prescription,
consumables, doctors fees, etc.

Administrative benefits
Reduction in size of the record room
Reduce time spent finding and delivering chart
Increase privacy of data
Formats that are legible
Comply with legal regulations
Promotions of quality assurance
Improve patient satisfaction
Ability for home access by the physician and nurse
practitioners
Alerts for incomplete data
Integration of clinical data

Cost
Effective

Accurate
insuranc
e
informati
on obtain

Financi
al
Benefit
s

Reduction
of rejected
claims

Timely bill
submission
processed
resulting
decreased
days in
accounts
payable

CLINICAL BENEFITS
Medication record
Vital Signs
Progress
notes
Results from
Radiology
laboratory
departments
Flow sheets
Growth Charts
Immunization records
Medication allergies
Profiles
Alerts
Reminders
Follow-up system
E-prescribing
Evidencebased
medicine

There are several reasons

for the increase in
ambulatory care programs:
changing demand for health
services
shifting preferences of thirdparty
payers and regulators
competitive influences
diversification of risk

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

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and

stupid.
Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate
and brilliant.
Together they are powerful beyond

Intensive Ambulatory Care

Program

References

NursingCrib.com (Nursing Informatics)

by: Daisy Jane Antipuesto RN MN AUGUST 3, 2011

EVALUATION OF AMBULATORY CARE INFORMATION

SYSTEM

by: Donald W. Sinborg, and Quinn R Thiting-O'Keefe,

MI.D.
University of California San Francisco

FierceHealthcare Newsletter (Ambulatory Care)