Question

Healthcare Information Systems

1. Explain how artificial intelligence or technology could be used to overcome the problems posed by silos.

Answer 1

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Silos pose problems such as lack of coordination, divergent objectives of different functions in healthcare organization and duplicity of data among the others. When technology is used, then different functions are integrated and information are shared on a real time basis. It brings all the functions using health care information system at one platform and get the benefits of health care information system in the organization. Further, the artificial intelligence brings cross functional information to the managers and make them take informed decisions that benefit the organization. Besides, the technology driven applications build a knowledge base in the organization that make people from different functions or departments to learn and retrieve data to make meaning full information. These benefits nullify the problems of silos and make the organization grow with synergy.