SIGNIFICANCE OF IT IN HEALTHCARE

My Blog is all about what's new with IT in the Healthcare field. IT investments by healthcare providers is ultimately intended to enhance patient care. But enhancing patient care is a broad idea. The best way to define it in practical terms is to explain how the Healthcare Industry can achieve higher quality patient care through the use technology, such as “healthcare IT.”As a next step in the process of improving patient care, many healthcare providers are embracing and adopting healthcare IT technologies that focus on delivering Electronic Health Records (EHRs). To achieve the benefits of the ERH system, organizations must overcome two obstacles. First, they must deal with the challenges of reconciling, aggregating, and summarizing patient clinical information captured in a multitude healthcare systems. Second, they must make the aggregated patient clinical data accessible to clinicians and patients receiving care.