Question

1) The medical cost has escalated to a point where not every individual can afford the premium. How informatics technology can play an important role to reduce the cost of operation?)1

2) Are you using any Electronic Health Record system in your workplace? If so, what are the advantages or disadvantages of that system?

3) How the barriers to Health Information Technology adoption can be overcome?

4) Are you using HL7 in your workplace? If not, why?

Answer 1

0 IT in health sector is playing an important role in reducing the cost of care EHR (electronic Health Records) are saving the history of patients health digitally , which is used for treating the patients with good care, Information is exchanged from one place to another through digitally. Quality of the treatment is also increased .. By using all this the cost of the care is decreased due to using of resources. And due to using the improved resources the hospital stay of the person's time decreases along with efficiend drug usuage also decreases cost @ | Yes, we are using EHR in our workplace. But it is usefull to improve care so everyone should use EHR is hospitals Advantager's - Quality of came to the patients is increased by using EHR → By using EHR the space used for documen- tation is reduced → Patients are included in care of their own.

Disa avantages » Hacking may cause problems. > If the information is not opdated this may cause problems in treatment. → fear may be present in patient's because of their own health of their misunderstanding -> If the information is erased it may cause damage