Information technology tools used by health care profesionals

Information Technology Tools Used By Health Care Professionals
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In an interview with a medical officer from a regional hospital, it emerged that, in the past the health facilities have been sluggish in establishing information systems in hospitals as an investment. In the recent past, though there has been remarkable improvement in the area after realization of the benefits that accrue from the kind of advancements. According to the officer, the integration provides a world of information, which is crucial with the ever-evolving diseases and the information coming forth from research. Today the incorporation of information technological tools in the health sector refers to as health informatics. However, it is vital that the officers involved have the ability to discern the correct information from the vast amounts of information available. It is also in order, to change the medical practices as the information available has updates (Ocasio, 2012). These changed practices must then provide improved results relative to the ones that came before the new information. In essence, the new information, which is presumably better, should yield better results in medicine as it is now possible to make highly informed decisions. Making better choices ties to the evidence found, with respect to medical practice in question. In three phases, the practicing officers should know what he has to do as they have immensely benefitted from the information to make precise decisions. Since they can recognize the problem, they can then draw from the best practices to do what is required of them. Finally, the office should highly understand the outcomes, drawing from the new wealth of information on better choices and results. For this information to make the efforts worthwhile, its provision with utmost convenience, with any form of discrimination among the various social-cultural groups (Hayward, 2012).
Information technology and electronic patients’ records
Technology finds it way in every field, trying to make easier how various processes run. The health sector has not been left behind, and some of the advances are quite complex. One of the most significant and easily understood processes that technology has refined in medicine is that of keeping records of different patients. In the past, records of patients were done manually on paper, which was a lot of paperwork that gave significant room for error. Most of the errors that were common include those that relate to tests, procedures, drugs prescriptions among many others that were fatal. Other than the errors that came with manually entering data regarding the patients, there was the added strain of having to set up data storage in that took a lot of space. This translated into limited time that the data could be stored, which in most cases was less than ten years, without clutter. On cost, difference between the electronic and manual systems is extreme, that is, while o...