HIM 500 2-2 Changes in Healthcare Technology Landscape Mind Map Kimberley Woodward.docx Third time is the charm PDF

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Mind Mapping the health care technology landscape past, present and future...

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Healthcare Information Technology Mind Map

Kimberley A. Woodward

Southern New Hampshire University

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Changes in Healthcare Technology Landscape In the preceding decades, society bears witness to immeasurable technologic enhancements, particularly the healthcare industry. Computer use began in the 1960s. The computers were enormous, occupying entire rooms, and were tremendously expensive. In the preceding decades, computers work significantly reduced in a size smaller, less expensive, more user-friendly. Healthcare delivery systems also advanced, and the technologies assisted in these changes. For example, the 1980s was the beginning of the focus on cost reimbursement. This resulted in hospitals gathering necessary information from clinical and financial systems to reimburse healthcare expenditures (Grandia, L 2014). Improvements in healthcare information technology have directly impacted how healthcare is provided today, ushering in some of the most, probably the most significant changes in the medical profession itself. With electronic health records, providers have easy access to a patient's medical information and allow people access to medical information even if a provider's office is closed (Office Practicum, 2016). Enhancements, for instance, electronic prescribing (eprescribing) and telehealth, healthcare availability are further prevalent. Telehealth technology allows patients in remote areas to contact a healthcare provider without coming in for an appointment. At the equal moment, e-prescribing routinely conveys a prescription to a particular pharmacy of the patient's choosing. E-prescribing fundamentally eradicates the risk of losing a paper prescription or a pharmacist's likelihood of not reading a provider's handwriting. There have been fast changes with the current landscape of Covid 19, with many more health insurance companies offering reimbursements for telehealth.

Healthcare Technology Uses

The goal of healthcare has never changed, with the main focus being on taking care of patients. What drives healthcare has essentially transformed relatively significantly subsequently since the 1960s. So how has this transformation affected the use of healthcare technologies? Today, the technologies do not serve similar purposefulness as they did approximately 50 years ago, consisting of 2 different dynamics. During the 1960s, the principal handlers of healthcare information technologies were Medicaid and Medicare. With main applications evolving from this phase were shared accounting submissions on those immense, shared hospital mainframes (Office Practicum, 2016). Step into the time machine to the 2000s; the principal drivers developed increased amalgamation in addition to outcomes-based reimbursement, with the expansion of cloud-based computer systems and EMR assimilation throughout departments (Office Practicum 2016). The enduring continuous one item that has not rehabilitated healthcare information technology is its proficiency and compensation.

Healthcare Technology Use Across Departments The use of healthcare technologies across departments has helped with patient safety and communication from department to department. For example, suppose a patient enters the Emergency Department in the middle of the night with a right lower quadrant pain complaint. In that case, she may receive pain medication and a CT scan to confirm (or rule out) appendicitis. Once the patient gets a diagnosis confirming appendicitis, admitted to the hospital for an appendectomy. During patient transport from the emergency room to the appropriate medical floor, the medical providers must enter any medical care/medications administered to the patient.

The medical care recorded into the electronic record will go along with that patient while he hospital. The information must be entered correctly; it might thwart costly inaccuracies, such as the patient receiving a subsequent dose of pain medication too soon. Healthcare information technologies allow for the ability to coordinate better the care given, especially in a medical emergency or in the case of a severe medical condition (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2019.).

Impact of Healthcare Technology Subsequently, healthcare information technology is continually fluctuating and modernizing. Each individual amid the healthcare industry plays a dynamic role in keeping up to date on administrative policies regarding the use of HIT and safeguarding protected health information. The overseers of HIT systems must be continuously guaranteeing the security of the data, especially as the technology continues to advance with the continual growth of technology that allows for less fortunate people and people living remotely to access healthcare (CCHIT, 2015). Administrators need to guarantee a secure link as soon as providers review healthcare needs with remote patients. As technology improves, healthcare productivity will require intensification; consequently, providers will see additional patients in a reduced amount of time. Furthermore, with electronic medical records, healthcare providers can access patients' health history just a few keystrokes away, enabling providers to focus more on a preventative medicine role. It is significantly inexpensive to preclude disease than to cure it. With an entire health history sitting right in front of a provider, it will allow them to track what conditions a patient may be at risk for developing and mitigate those risks (CCHIT 2015).

References

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2019, July). Health Information Technology Integration. www.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chroniccare/improve/health-it/index.html CCHIT. (2020, January 16). The future of healthcare Information Technology. https://www.cchit.org/the-future-of-healthcare-information-technology/ Grandia, L. (2014, May 20). Healthcare information systems: Past, present, future. https://www.healthcatalyst.com/healthcare-information-systems-past-present-future Office Practicum. (2016, March 4). Understanding the Different Types of Health Information Technology. officepracticum.com/blog/health-informationtechnology/understanding-the-different-types-of-health-information-technology/...