Question

A common misconception is that a nurse has the same role and uses technology in the same way in every healthcare institution. But the reality is that a nurse in a hospital does not have the same role or use technology in the same way as a nurse at a healthcare insurance organization or a practitioner’s office. In the healthcare information technology field, it is extremely important to understand the roles and users of the technology. In the discussion topic, consider the following: How are roles and functions of those roles different depending on the industry? How does this affect the management of information?

Answer 1

Technology's role in health care expanded in the last 20 years for societal technologies advancement. it helps to share, store and analyze the health information to improve the technology. Indifferent industries like biotechnology, pharmaceutical, information technology, have major contributions to improve health for the people. Biotechnology offers medical devices for diagnosis and treatment purpose, vaccination devices to prevent infectious disease, electronic use for prescribing system supply and administer medicine in the hospital, technology in pharma reduce the medical errors and ensure patient safety. Health IT provides quality of care for patients and help to deliver accurately, safety by reducing medical errors. strengthen the communication between providers and patients and improve the research process, medical billing and coding. It helps insurance claims to view patient data. EHR protect the patient information and make accurate up to date data for their treatment process. Technology improvement increased medical devices for the preventive and curative disease. EMR avoids time and errors in patient data charting. many health care professionals have a positive attitude on electronic documentation but some obstruct with management there are issues with perception and satisfaction on IT documentation and data sharing. There are issues in finance and initial use of implementation HIT is too expensive.