Health Care Reflection Paper

On November 30th we had a guest speaker in our HIT class. His name was Jim Provines and the motive of his visit to our HIT class was to encourage on us and to give us a perspective about the new changes and transformation of healthcare into technology based and the job opportunities. Jim Provines is employed at Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare as Manager in IT Support Services. He holds an MBA in management and he has M.S in Health Informatics. Later, he took CPT and ICD-9 courses at the college of DuPage as Joyce Graves for instructor of the CPT class to supplement his studies. Jim has been in healthcare about fourteen years and three and half years in IT. During this millennium, technology has changed so much the way healthcare is delivered. Jim stated that technology has changed the way we work because most of the equipment’s used in healthcare are IT …show more content…
Therefore, EMR’s/EHR’s are able to improve patient outcomes because EMRs/EHRs can expose potential problems when they occur, helping providers avoid more serious consequences for patients and leading to better patient outcomes, can help also providers quickly and systematically identify and correct operational problems; yet in a paper-based setting identifying such problems is difficult to find out