Over the last few decades, informational systems have rapidly developed, gaining strategic importance in diverse areas with the mission of computerizing information in healthcare industry. “Most healthcare facilities and healthcare providers depend on computer systems to provide the best possible healthcare for patients” [1].
The intricate facilitation of hospitals calls for advanced and modern technology. Patients are to be treated quickly, carefully and with respect in regards to their specific ailment. Therefore, information systems can be a powerful tool used to control this complexity and make healthcare more effective and efficient. Due to hospital information systems, facilities can manage a database which collects, processes, stores …show more content…
The proper application of the HIS allows hospitals to make advancements in patient protection, stability, and overall accountability by enabling the distribution of data among separate subdivisions and augmenting communication amid staff. Medical malpractice is often lethal in medicinal facilities and taking advantage of HIS can prevent and avoid these errors.
2.2.2 Control of costs
The second important aim of a HIS is its potential to reduce healthcare costs.
Those being treated and the providers themselves have the ability to research and analyze medical files throughout the entire system which allows for quick and accurate communication, data transfer and collaboration amid both the patients and the care providers and the professionals themselves in an attempt to better patient stay and improve safety while decreasing losses.
In order to minimize total costs of hospital expenses and injury, it is imperative that medicinal facilities partake in the following: optimization of resources, reduction of the stay's duration, operation of easy access to the patient's information, reduction of transcription errors and duplication of information, reduction of personal costs and better financial …show more content…
Massive patient records allow doctors to understand what could possibly be wrong with each specific person and what needs to be done when giving treatment. Medical alteration of health data equipment on a domestic scale is hastily evolving medicinal data interchange and motivating communal wellbeing enterprises, such as community sickness investigation programs.
The advancement of all modern technology will provide an overall increase in healthcare, specifically in the fight towards defeating fatal illnesses and diseases. Information is accessible to the mass media for consumption in the hopes that this information will be used to benefit the wellbeing of millions.
According to Turnock (2009), computers and electronic communications have improved our ability to gather, analyze, and disseminate large amounts of disease surveillance data. This technological approach will need to be expanded to provide a continuous stream of information about chronic diseases, their effects on health, and prevention techniques to the entire population
The intricate facilitation of hospitals calls for advanced and modern technology. Patients are to be treated quickly, carefully and with respect in regards to their specific ailment. Therefore, information systems can be a powerful tool used to control this complexity and make healthcare more effective and efficient. Due to hospital information systems, facilities can manage a database which collects, processes, stores …show more content…
The proper application of the HIS allows hospitals to make advancements in patient protection, stability, and overall accountability by enabling the distribution of data among separate subdivisions and augmenting communication amid staff. Medical malpractice is often lethal in medicinal facilities and taking advantage of HIS can prevent and avoid these errors.
2.2.2 Control of costs
The second important aim of a HIS is its potential to reduce healthcare costs.
Those being treated and the providers themselves have the ability to research and analyze medical files throughout the entire system which allows for quick and accurate communication, data transfer and collaboration amid both the patients and the care providers and the professionals themselves in an attempt to better patient stay and improve safety while decreasing losses.
In order to minimize total costs of hospital expenses and injury, it is imperative that medicinal facilities partake in the following: optimization of resources, reduction of the stay's duration, operation of easy access to the patient's information, reduction of transcription errors and duplication of information, reduction of personal costs and better financial …show more content…
Massive patient records allow doctors to understand what could possibly be wrong with each specific person and what needs to be done when giving treatment. Medical alteration of health data equipment on a domestic scale is hastily evolving medicinal data interchange and motivating communal wellbeing enterprises, such as community sickness investigation programs.
The advancement of all modern technology will provide an overall increase in healthcare, specifically in the fight towards defeating fatal illnesses and diseases. Information is accessible to the mass media for consumption in the hopes that this information will be used to benefit the wellbeing of millions.
According to Turnock (2009), computers and electronic communications have improved our ability to gather, analyze, and disseminate large amounts of disease surveillance data. This technological approach will need to be expanded to provide a continuous stream of information about chronic diseases, their effects on health, and prevention techniques to the entire population