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In the times of highly sophisticated computers, there are several fields in our everyday life that need the implementation of such technology. Healthcare system is among those primary ones that could greatly benefit from the development of information systems for an additional optimization, and further development of its own.
As the amount of health-related information is constantly growing, public health organizations will soon require well-designed information systems to simply function, and make optimal use of that stacking data. Healthcare system will rely on information systems in managerial decision making, program and clinic administration, public health planning, policy analysis, program evaluation and performance measurement, along with the improvement of epidemiologic surveillance.
Information systems now appear to be a powerful tool in the healthcare system, which rise can be explained via three fundamental factors:
- constantly growing amount of data available to public and private sources
- advancements in information technology
Growing appreciation of power of information technologies in public health decision making
Now practically anyone can get the information from both public and private health services providers, as well as insurers, which contains details on healthcare cost, and use.
IT technology has grown to the point when a huge amount of observations data can now be processed with the use of one PC, a process that earlier would require a whole lot of human hours to deal with. Vital statistics and disease registries, which make the core of public healthcare departments, have been dramatically transformed by advances in IT technology.
And even though healthcare information systems are hard to both develop and manage in order to address current health care challenges, it remains quite obvious that IT is greatly influencing the whole process of collecting and using information by healthcare organizations.
References
Strudnicki, J., Berndt, D., & Fisher, J. Using information systems for public health administration (pp. 353-354). Jones and Bartlett Publishers. Retrieved from
http://www.jblearning.com/samples/0763738425/38425_ch13_353_380.pdf
