Open AccessHealth information and intelligence management: an experience from COVID-19 at Patan Hospital, Nepal
Author(s) -
Ashis Shrestha
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of patan academy of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2091-2757
pISSN - 2091-2749
DOI - 10.3126/jpahs.v7i1.28866
Subject(s) - officer , covid-19 , medical emergency , health care , information management , emergency management , business , medicine , nursing , knowledge management , computer science , political science , virology , pathology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , outbreak
Health information and intelligence are important components of health care system. Moreover they are very crucial during disaster management. Collecting right information at right time and delivering it to right target at right time is important during disaster. During COVID-19, at Patan Hospital, the information management has been done through external communication officer who is a part of hospital incident command system.