Essays on Healthcare Information Technology

Abstract

Medication errors are common medical errors in healthcare settings that often lead to patient harm. Medication errors transpire during ordering, administration, and transcription of medications. Healthcare information technology is a promising strategy for prevention of these errors. In this paper, an article that reports on the application of technology to prevent medication errors was analyzed. The article is entitled “Effect of bar-code technology on the safety of medication administration”. It is authored by Poon et al. (2010) and reports on the methods and findings of a study that examined the impact of the use of eMAR technology on rates ...

Introduction

Reliable and sound information is the key source of decision-making across all healthcare centers worldwide. Effective information systems are essential for the development of health system policies and their implementation. In addition, it ensures good governance and regulation, promotes health research, improve human resources development and high service delivery. Advances in technology, especially the internet, creates a better opportunity to improve healthcare institutions through making communications more efficient and increasing the effectiveness of practitioners. Healthcare centers that have implemented information systems have realized great changes in their operations in terms of speed, safety, efficient communications between parties and cost cutting. ...

The importance of Health Information Technology (HIT) to the healthcare sector cannot be overemphasized. The availability of information as well as the ability to exchange this information is very crucial to the efficient delivery of care across all levels of the health care system. These levels involve different stakeholders that include the care team, patients, and health care organizations among others, which in totality comprise a political, economic system. The diagnosis and effective treatment of patients depend on the capacity of care providers, whether individual medical practitioners or large healthcare organizations to access three main types of medical related or ...

Information technology in healthcare includes the various hardware, software and infrastructure developed to retrieve and manage patient information within the healthcare system. The public health field is highly information intensive requiring accurate and timely information to be obtained from various sources. Public health has its main functions centered on health assessment, health assurance and development of policies to promote public health. All these functions require data and information to be exchanged in a timely and authoritative manner (O’Carroll, 2003). The use of information systems in public health has played a major role in the improvement of healthcare quality. Information ...

Research outline

- Abstract - Introduction - Concept - Research problem - Research questions - Research objectives - Research justification - Limitations of the study - Assumptions - Scope of the study - Ethical considerations - Literature review - Research methodology

Introduction

As the country advances towards a complex integration of healthcare systems, healthcare providers will be required to have a workforce with health information technology (HIT) skills. The workforce will support the use of electronic health records in this complicated environment. There are concerns, and the need to develop health information ...

Introduction

Health sector is changing rapidly with the changing technological advancement in such a high level of globalization. The health sector has changed drastically over the past few years from analog to digital health. The numbers of patients are increasing and in the recent days, there has been a rise in the level of diseases. In some cases, the diseases require deep scanning and this can only be possible through modern tools and equipment. On this argument, digital tools and equipment can be described as the latest improvement in medical sector. The medical fees are extensively high and therefore the patients expect ...