Information Technology

Impact of Healthcare Informatics on Quality of Patient Care and Health Services

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In the year 2012, healthcare has been a fairly controversial issue for the United States, as state, federal, and local policies continuously debate big buzzwords like autonomy, leadership, regula- tion, and their presence in citizens’ lives. What many healthcare professionals do not realize is that healthcare information technology, or HIT, usage in healthcare settings has been one of the few long-standing issues that has been supported by presidents of both political parties because of its pivotal role in improving healthcare quality, cost, effectiveness, and efficiency. HIT will work toward not only touching the lives of many and, possibly, saving lives in the process, but also affecting subcultures, groups, organizations, and more granular levels of society. HIT is, therefore, one type of information technology that could lift barriers between the patient and physician, patients to each other, physicians and governments, and, on a global level, could impact electronic government and intergovernment initiatives. While many books propose topics that explain HIT in some regard, this book proposes an interesting and extremely important objective—to engage the reader in a discussion of HIT in the United States in an unbiased, research-centric manner, with a focus on various facets that will be grouped into two parts. Impact of Healthcare Information on Quality of Patient Care and Health Services takes an integrated approach, looking at different types of organizations, such as non- profit hospitals, for-profit hospitals, community health centers, and government hospitals, and, by doing so, provides a comparative perspective of how different organizations (specific to the United States) tend to adapt and use technology differently. For this reason, it is emphasized that there is really no “one size fits all” approach to HIT adoption, implementation, and meaningful use, but rather there needs to be efforts to help different organizations with their weaknesses and fortify strengths in technology adoption. Currently, the government approach targets all organizations at the same time and is trying to propose change on this macro level. Rather, this book emphasizes the importance in understanding that organizational level and microeconomic differences in order to produce change on a domestic level and, possibly someday, a global level as well.

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: ., 2013

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1-157

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English

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978-1-4665-0488-2

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