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Introduction To Health Care Delivery System

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Integrated Healthcare System

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The issues and trends in healthcare delivery are constantly changing. The COVID-19 pandemic is one recent issue that wreaked havoc on healthcare systems, causing a shortage of healthcare workers, high demand for medicines and supplies, and increased medical expenditure due to a lack of insurance. Other issues include rising healthcare costs and care fragmentation.
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Payment for healthcare services has historically promoted adoption of costly and often unnecessary or inefficient...

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Health Informatics
Computer Science

Background:

The secondary use of patient data is essential for advancing Learning Health Systems (LHSs).
Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) offers potential solutions for healthcare IT infrastructure.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the role of FLOSS in enabling the secondary use of patient data for LHS development.
To provide an overview of FLOSS applications within healthcare data management.

Main Methods:

An environmental scan of academic and grey literature was performed.
The MedFLOSS database of open source systems in healthcare was utilized.

Main Results:

A diverse range of FLOSS is available for LHS IT infrastructure, including operating systems, databases, and interoperability software.
FLOSS contributes to mobile and web applications for clinical data management.
Recent literature on clinical data management tools was reviewed.

Conclusions:

FLOSS is integral to current health IT for patient data management.
The collaborative and modular nature of FLOSS makes it suitable for building LHS digital infrastructure.