Health Care Information Technology
Changes in health information technology
Healthcare and Information Technology
Information Technology (IT) can be briefly defined as "the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information." (Word Net, 2011). IT has evolved and still is evolving the way organizations communicate and carry on with their businesses. The office setting in the contemporary society is fully dependent on the advancement of technology for an up-to-date setting and functionality. More and more organizations integrate the IT ideologies into their office development and furniture purchase. Before any organization sets up an office or buys furniture, they first consider the IT provisions that they will need like the computers, fans, phone links, projectors, faxes, shredders, air conditioners and so on. This is a trend that is fast catching up with the medical industry and more than before, there is need for implementing…...
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Mariusz Duplaga (2004) Impact of Information Technology on Quality of Healthcare Services. Retrieved July 20, 2013 from http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-25944-2_145#page-2
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2012) Health IT Training Opportunities and Requirements. Retrieved July 20, 2013 from http://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/workforce/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2013). Health Communication and Health Information Technology. Retrieved July 20, 2013 from http://healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/overview.aspx?topicid=18
Word Net, (2011). Definition: Information Technology. Retrieved July 20, 2013 from http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=information%20technology
healthcare information technology project failures and best practices recovery. It highlights factors that are responsible for such failures including lack of direction, clarity of goals, consistent system and application plans. It also investigates best practices that can mitigate these failures in the health care system. The paper lists the best interventions as; first, management's commitment to the goals and objectives of the projects, second, management's definition of a series of consistent analytics, KPIs and metrics of performance that increase collaboration across diverse business units. The paper examines the use of project metrics and portfolio management in sustainable, scalable and reliable governance frameworks and strategies in the management of information technology projects. Lastly the paper assesses government intervention in healthcare. It highlights both federal and state government's involvements in the healthcare in a bid to make healthcare accessible through new programs. It also analyses the cost implications of these programs…...
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Highsmith, J.A. (2000). Adaptive Software Development n A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems. New York: Dorset House Publishing .
The Pros and Cons Health Information Technology: Is it Worth Implementing?
Introduction
Various studies have been undertaken in an attempt to highlight the relevance of adopting health information technology in healthcare. While there are those who are of the opinion that health information technology is beneficial to the healthcare system as a whole, others are convinced that the risks and complications posed by health information technology are too significant, and hence the implementation of the same in healthcare settings ought to be halted. This text highlights the arguments that have been presented over time for and against the implementation as well as adoption of health information technology. Upon evaluating and assessing these arguments, I will embrace the side of this debate that appears to have the greatest sway.
Discussion
From the onset, it is important to note that health information technology do not have an assigned definition. This is to say that quite a…...
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Health IT
Information Technology and Cultural Transformation in Healthcare
apid advances in information technology have continued to drive change in many sectors, including healthcare. Ongoing research suggests that cultural transformation is necessary in order to properly adapt to the capabilities and constraints of the increasing complexity and pervasiveness of information technology in healthcare settings. Better utilizing the information technology available to healthcare organizations and more accurately understanding the social impacts of this technology can actually help to achieve the cultural changes that are needed, as is demonstrated in the following brief literature review.
At one level, there needs to be a certain degree of autonomy for individual healthcare organizations in their adoption and utilization of information technologies in certain operations, as this will enhance opportunities for cultural adaptability and a willingness to undergo such transformations (Abraham et al. 2011; Lopez et al. 2011). Different communities can experience significantly different effects from the wide-scale…...
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Abraham, C., Nishihara, E. & Akiyama, M. (2011). Transforming healthcare with information technology in Japan: A review of policy, people, and progress. International Journal of Medical Informatics 80(3): 157-70.
Box, T., McDonell, M., Helfrich, C., Jesse, R….Rumsfeld, J. (2010). Strategies from a Nationwide Health Information Technology Implementation: The VA CART STORY. Journal of General Internal Medicine 25(1): 72-6.
Karsh, B., Weinger, M., Abbott, P. & Wears, R. (2010). Health information technology: fallacies and sober realities. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 17(6): 617-23.
Lopez, L., Green, A., Tan-McGrory, A., King, R. & Betancourt, J. (2011). Bridging the Digital Divide in Health Care: The Role of Health Information Technology in Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 37(1): 437-45.
Others include delays in data accessibility, albeit shorter delays and the continued need for source data verification (Donovan, 2007).
Other obstacles have occurred in the developing of mobile healthcare applications. These have included mobile device limitations, wireless networking problems, infrastructure constraints, security concerns, and user distrust (Keng and Shen, 2006).
A third problem that has been encountered is that of a lack of education on not only the importance of the information technology but also training on how to use the specific pieces of equipment. The tools that are provided to people are only as good as the training that is provided on how to use them. The tools may be able to do wonderful things, but if those that are using them do not know how to get the best use out of them they will in the end be less efficient.
Medical Errors
According to an Institute of Medicine (IOM) medical…...
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Al-Assaf, Al F., Bumpus, Lisa J., Carter, Dana, and Dixon, Stephen B. (2003). Preventing Errors
in Healthcare: A Call for Action. Hospital Topics. 81(3), 5-12.
Brommeyer, Mark. (2005). e-nursing and e-patients. Nursing Management -- UK. 11(9), 12-13.
Damberg, Cheryl L., Ridgely, M. Susan, Shaw, Rebecca, Meili, Robin C., Sorbero, Melony E.,
Evolution of Healthcare Information System
Evolution of health care information system
Over the last twenty years, technology in provision of healthcare has evolved tremendously and what was available then now seems primitive in comparison. Today, patient care is at a much higher level. The management of healthcare institutions has become far more efficient through the growth of technology. esearch is now more readily available. The growth of technology has proved beneficial to not only the healthcare workers, rather, more so to the patients. Nowadays, treating a patient correctly and effectively is easier than it was then; the patient is also more secure due to machines that can monitor all his processes and new technology has also enhanced the skills of the healthcare workers in handling their patients (Bavova, 2013).
This paper seeks to discuss highlight similarities and differences between healthcare provision twenty years ago and today, as a result of technological developments. The…...
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American Telemedicine Association (ATA). (2006). Telemedicine, Telehealth, and Health Information Technology. An ATA Issue Paper http://www.americantelemed.org/docs/default-source/policy/telemedicine-telehealth-and-health-information-technology.pdf?sfvrsn=8
Bavova, B. (2013) The Impact of Technology on Healthcare, American Institute of Medical Science and Education / {Retrieved: 5/11/2015}https://www.aimseducation.edu/blog/the-impact-of-technology-on-healthcare
Dias, J. (2014) 6 Benefits of Applying Automation to Healthcare, HIT Consultant, / {Retrieved: 5/11/2015}http://hitconsultant.net/2014/07/21/6-big-benefits-of-applying-automation-to-healthcare
Jayanthi, A. (2014) 10 Biggest Technological Advancements for Healthcare in the Last Decade, Becker's Health IT and CIO Review {Retrieved; 5/11/2015}http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/10-biggest-technological-advancements-for-healthcare-in-the-last-decade.html
" (2004, p.159) Activities have included:
(1) Development and promotion of industry-wide standards;
(2) Funding of research for investigation of the impact of IT on quality;
(3) Provision of incentives that provide encouragement of investment in IT;
(4) Giving grants to investors in IT; and (5) Development of strategies to improve the flow of information across providers. (Report to Congress, June, 2004, p.159)
Stated additionally in the Report to Congress is that there are multiple functions that must be considered when purchase IT and hundreds of applications that various vendors offer. The various IT applications are stated to be within three categories including those of:
(1) Administrative and financial systems that facilitate billing, accounting and other administrative tasks;
(2) Clinical systems that facilitate or provide input into the care process; and (3) Infrastructure that supports both the administrative and clinical applications. (Report to Congress, June 2004, p.160)
The work published by The Royal Society entitled: "Digital Healthcare: The…...
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A recent article touted the 6.1% growth of spending on medical care in 2007.
The same article cautioned however that, "most experts know that no matter what the numbers say, there is still a great deal of work ahead to reform a healthcare system that is still fundamentally broken -- and is facing one of the worst economic recessions in decades" (Lubell, 2009, pg. 6).
Government and industry officials have been working to reform the industry for more than a decade yet the problem seems to be getting worse rather than better. More and more individuals are finding that insurance takes too much of their income and are forced therefore to forego that expense. Government is leery of committing to the cost of such expense, and industry is reluctant to offer expanded coverage without the backing of the federal government. As the interested parties do the two-step the problem becomes exacerbated.…...
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Health Information System
Promoting Action Design esearch to create value in healthcare through IT
ecently there has been varying proof showing that health IT reduces costs while improving the standard of care offered. The same factors that had caused delays in reaping benefits from IT investment made in other sectors (i.e. time consuming procedural change) are also very common within the healthcare sector. Due to the current transitive nature of the Healthcare sector, new IT investment is likely not going to provide maximum value unless this new investment is backed up with a total reform of healthcare delivery. The overall ability of healthcare IT value researchers to add value to practice will be severely limited as a result of the traditional ex-post approach to measuring IT and the fact that government spurs significant investment. It may be risky to generalize or compare results from traditional IT value research with those from healthcare…...
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Fichman, R., Kohli, R., & Krishnan, R. (2011). The role of information systems in healthcare: Current research and future trends. Information Systems Research, 22(3), 419-428.
Goh, J.M., Gao, G., & Agarwal, R. (n.d.). Evolving work routines: Adaptive routinization of information technology in healthcare. Information Systems Research, 22(3), 565-585.
Hoffnagel, E., Woods, D., & Leveson, N. (2006). Resilience engineering: Concepts and precepts. Abingdon: GBR: Ashgate Publishing.
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In addition, Senator Collins led the fight to restore critical f funding to Medicare for home health care so that elderly citizens and disabled can receive needed care in their own homes ("Biography")."
Obviously the senator encourages the funding of both Medicaid and Medicare as she has fought to ensure that both are funded correctly. Collins was also a supporter of the stimulus package that improves healthcare information technology.
As it pertains to abortions Susan Collins is also pro-choice and believes in stem cell research. She is adamant about the right of a woman to choose just as Senator Kennedy. She also voted no on prohibiting HHS grants to organization who perform abortions. She has also been a proponent of expanding stem cell research.
In both the present and the past Collins has worked to ensure that healthcare coverage is affordable. From the bill that she coauthored with Senator Kennedy to her…...
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Evolution of Health Care Information Systems Physician's Office Operation
Filling in the hole of health care information technology will endorse safe, capable, patient-centered, and patient care that is fruitful in a timely way. In this essay, the theme is to look into two modern health
care organizations and then compare and contrast many characteristics that will involve the kind of evidence systems are using at the moment, investigate the transmission of information 20 years ago and how the substitute of data today. Furthermore, this essay will cover two major events and technology developments that have inclined present Health Care Informational Services practices.
Compare and Contrast Doctor's Workplace Operation
These day's doctor's office operation is familiarizing to the health care reform that was sanctioned in 2010 by the Obama organization. During sometime in October of 2013, the exchanges in health insurance was available on the market for customers on order to buy health insurance placed…...
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Healthcare Costs
A number of factors have affected the costs of healthcare in the United States over the past 3 decades, and there has been a corresponding impact on the nursing field as a result. To determine the facts about these issues, this paper reviews the literature to identify those factors that have had an effect on increasing healthcare costs over the past 30 years following by an analysis concerning how nursing has been impacted by efforts to contain costs. Finally, a summary of the research and important findings concerning factors affecting healthcare costs and their impact on the nursing field are presented in the conclusion.
Factors Affecting Healthcare Costs in Past 30 Years
Although the $2.8 trillion healthcare industry in the United States has become more efficient over the past 30 years, there have been some forces at work that have continued to drive increases in the costs of the provision…...
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Evolution of Health Care Information Systems
The objective of this study is to compare and contrast a contemporary healthcare facility or physician's office health care facility or physician's office operation of 20 years ago and to identify at least two major events and technological advantages that influenced current HCIS practices. The physician's office and health care facility of 20 years ago was a paper-based operation. All records were paper records, appointments were written on calendars and prescriptions were handwritten, notations on the patient's health records was done by writing on the physical paper record and all hospital orders were written by hand. During the 1970s hospital growth and expansion occurred and the expenditures for Medicare and Medicaid were on the rise. At this time mainframes were still in use and microcomputers became available and not only were they smaller but they were also less expensive. However, transformation did not come until…...
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INTENET'S IMPACT ON HEALTH CAE INFOMATION
Internet
The Internet's Impact on Health Care Information
The Internet's Impact on Health Care Information
This paper explores some of the best and well-known cites and sites around the world for information and health care. Early in the 21st century, the World Health Organization made its first attempt to rank the quality of health care in approximately 200 countries. (NYT, 2007) The WHO ranked the countries' health care based on factors such as fairness, quality, access, insurance coverage, patient satisfaction, and use of information technology among other factors. (NYT, 2007) According to this research, some of countries in the world that provide the best health care overall are France, Italy, Malta, Japan, and Monaco, among others. (NYT, 2007) As much as the United States of America boasts at being the best in the world at nearly everything, United States health care was not in even the top thirty…...
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Mayo Foundation for Medical Research and Education. (2012). Mayo Clinic. Web, Available from: 2012 August 26.http://www.mayoclinic.com/ .
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PACS
Synthesizing health care and technology can be a very advantageous endeavor when the proper planning and understanding are applied to this technique. Physician practices is one area of health care where this is quite evident. The benefits of incorporating technology and information systems are both great for the patient and the organization that decides to employ these measures.
Ball, Weaver & Kiel (2004) agreed with this argument throughout the text and demonstrated how this infusion can be of great use for those health care practitioners. They argued that data collection through information gathering systems can help prevent mass disease or a pandemic outbreak. They wrote " some administrative systems such as registration, scheduling and billing have data that are of value for public health surveillance and developers of new strategies for early detection of disease outbreaks are using them, " (p. 528).
The streamlining of information is one great advantage of this…...
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