Health IMS Health Information Management Systems (IMS) and its Impact on Organizational Decision-Making

In the journal article entitled, "The Benefits of Health Information Technology: A Review of the Recent Literature," authors Buntin et. al. (2011) examined extant, current literature -- a total of 154 peer-reviewed studies between 2007 and 2010 -- to evaluate the reported benefits of the integration of information management systems (IMS) in medical and healthcare institutions. This evaluation of health IMS-related studies was an attempt to verify if indeed, the new technology integrated within the healthcare operations and systems of institutions globally would result to the desired goal, which is to provide a more efficient,...

Passed in 2007, HITECH provided support to medical and health organizations "to adopt certified electronic health records and use them effectively in the course of care." The authors pointed out that subsequent to the passing of HITECH into a law, other laws and regulations have focused on the use of information technology in the implementation of patient care in medical and health organizations. Among these policies or regulations that was passed subsequent to HITECH is the Affordable Care Act of 2010, which highlights the integral and critical role that health IMS plays in "achieving goals related health care quality and efficiency" (p. 464).
The evaluation of 2007-2010 studies on health IMS integration in medical and health institutions showed a predominantly positive…