INTRODUCTION
Information Technology (IT) has become an integral part of most global industries. It has been recognized as a tool that gives easy access to information and helps in improving operational efficiency and transparency.
In the year 2004, the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee in the United States issued its report, which focused mainly on how to resolve the problems of healthcare delivery in the US by incorporating information technology into healthcare.
Furthermore, the United States president in 2014 laid out plans to implement electronic medical records a standard in the healthcare industry. Healthcare industries were mandated to apply technologies and innovations in a way that furthers the best practices of …show more content…
The transiting from the old paper based information system to a new information system that provides a high quality care for patients has proven to be difficult, for that reason, incorporating IT into healthcare have been mostly centered on administrative and financial transactions rather than delivery.
However, the implementation of IT in healthcare is in essence a way to underline the gaps in the literature, to create an understanding, and to know its effect or impact on cost, quality, and efficiency. This paper seeks to examine the nature and background of technology in the healthcare system of the US, and assess the healthcare networks of the past and healthcare delivery integrated delivery systems of today.
ASSESSMENT OF HEALTHCARE NETWORKS OF THE …show more content…
HIT helps in improving the availability of information to individuals and patients. It monitors infectious disease outbreaks and provides timely medical record such as, electronic charting, computerized physician order entry, and clinical decision support. However, HIT has been recognized as having the ability to improve health delivery care between patients and their providers, it promotes good communication channels between patients and providers, easy and quick access to patient medical information or records and makes it possible for providers to better manage patient information through a secure use and sharing of information. As compared to the health care in the past, the documentation of patient records was paper based. With the paper base system, most times health care systems encounter problems of missing data, and delay in documentation, but with the introduction of technology, there is a potential reducing medical errors, tracking outcomes, identifying areas for providers to improve, and facilitating outcomes-based
Information Technology (IT) has become an integral part of most global industries. It has been recognized as a tool that gives easy access to information and helps in improving operational efficiency and transparency.
In the year 2004, the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee in the United States issued its report, which focused mainly on how to resolve the problems of healthcare delivery in the US by incorporating information technology into healthcare.
Furthermore, the United States president in 2014 laid out plans to implement electronic medical records a standard in the healthcare industry. Healthcare industries were mandated to apply technologies and innovations in a way that furthers the best practices of …show more content…
The transiting from the old paper based information system to a new information system that provides a high quality care for patients has proven to be difficult, for that reason, incorporating IT into healthcare have been mostly centered on administrative and financial transactions rather than delivery.
However, the implementation of IT in healthcare is in essence a way to underline the gaps in the literature, to create an understanding, and to know its effect or impact on cost, quality, and efficiency. This paper seeks to examine the nature and background of technology in the healthcare system of the US, and assess the healthcare networks of the past and healthcare delivery integrated delivery systems of today.
ASSESSMENT OF HEALTHCARE NETWORKS OF THE …show more content…
HIT helps in improving the availability of information to individuals and patients. It monitors infectious disease outbreaks and provides timely medical record such as, electronic charting, computerized physician order entry, and clinical decision support. However, HIT has been recognized as having the ability to improve health delivery care between patients and their providers, it promotes good communication channels between patients and providers, easy and quick access to patient medical information or records and makes it possible for providers to better manage patient information through a secure use and sharing of information. As compared to the health care in the past, the documentation of patient records was paper based. With the paper base system, most times health care systems encounter problems of missing data, and delay in documentation, but with the introduction of technology, there is a potential reducing medical errors, tracking outcomes, identifying areas for providers to improve, and facilitating outcomes-based