Question

What have you recently heard or read about healthcare information technology? Do you find the material that you have heard or read to be credible and well-informed? What can leaders of health information technology organizations do to ensure that the general public, users, patients, and media understand information technology products and services fairly and accurately?

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Healthcare system now goes hand in hand with the technological advances of our current time.


The four technologies that have advanced and are being developed by the leaders in the field of Healthcare as follows:-


HEALTHCARE EDUCATION: which has employed the use of augmented reality for the purpose of training students. This has allowed a new way students can learn anatomy and the intricacies of the human body. It has revolutionized the way Healthcare practitioners are taught.

3D PRINTED DRUGS: It has already become a reality with Aprecia pharmaceuticals 3d printing the first drug ever. This will open up a pathway for a new system which will allow patients to have customized dosages, with different reaction time and non-allergic drugs which can be administered to the patients.

FOOD SCANNERS: Tellspec is a firm that has created a food scanner prototype, which will allow people to scan anything that they are eating which not only provides benefits for the health conscious but for people with allergies, it can save them a lot of hurt in the future.

EHR SYSTEM: which has provided a system for accurate collection of patient data and service records. This has allowed the healthcare industry to grow at a staggering pace, fueled up by the data that the EHR system holds.


All these technologies have helped Healthcare services in one way or the other. With technology being able to create a better more competent workforce, to drugs that can be synthesized artificially. All this has allowed people to receive better Healthcare easier and for service providers to ride the wave of the new technological advancement to create a better overall system.


All the advancements and technologies can be implemented easily and are relatively easier to be funded. The exception being an EHR system which is valuable but not as cost friendly as the other.

Small Healthcare service providers can, therefore, secure government grants or public donations for the system to be implemented and government can, along with Medicaid and Medicare, provide people with these technologies for a relatively achievable capital investment.

Healthcare quality can be defined as the prospect of Healthcare service providers to expand the degree of current healthcare to meet the requirements set for achieving a favourable outcome. In plain English, we can call it the measurement of the value that it holds i.e if something is good enough and it is suitable to serve the required purpose.

The various component that might increase or decrease the value of Healthcare quality in the eyes of the consumer can be classified as:-

SAFETY which refers to avoid harm to the lives of the patient.

EFFECTIVE which means providing the best solution to the patients with full utilization of all the current standards.

TIME which means the time spent gathering the solution and providing it to the patient.

EFFICIENCY which means to avoid wastage wherever possible.

PATIENT CENTRIC which means providing an atmosphere where the patients feel safe and relaxed.



Two skills required to increase Healthcare quality are:-

Overcoming challenges and barriers to set a goal and effectively pursuing it. This tenacity is the key to increasing the quality of Healthcare services.

Working with other and collaboration is the most important aspect that a person requires to be able to be efficient enough to increase the quality of Healthcare service.

The five components of a system are:-

Standards: Every system needs a standard operating phase which includes the hardware and software requirements. This sets the requirements and the connected components of any system together.

Key environmental dependencies: which means the interrelationship of all the component entities and their interactions with the outside environment.

Distribution of the different system components: which means that with an increase in a new component or technology or interaction of a system, a new distribution of this entities takes place efficiently in the system.

Technology or building blocks: which mean that a system is self-sufficient within the scope of its own working processes and does not depend upon other factors, the building block of such a system is based upon the technology necessary to run the system effectively.

Complexity and necessity: which means that any system, be it complex or simple needs to be able to define the core purpose of its implementation and covers the necessity and the requirement of the said system.