HIT In Healthcare

1. Healthcare care cost has continued to increase overtime, creating an economical burden to the health industry in America. The healthcare economy is becoming less competitive due to the rising healthcare cost. A big misconception generated from the public is that America Healthcare, are proficient of working an elevated level of wonders. Using systems and other means of technology to control the healthcare cost is currently a major focus.
2. Poor quality of care: Medical errors cause a lot of incidental deaths. That is where HIT comes in because it has been a major part in reducing deaths caused by medical errors. For example, patients verify their arm band and then the arm band in placed on the patient for the remainder of the stay to be used with lab draws, medication administration, and identification of the patient for different procedures, etc. Whereas HIT can reduce medical errors it cannot prevent every death due to medical error. HIT can only work as well as the medical staff uses the technology. Medical staff that bypasses security features set up by HIT still put the patient at risk for a medical error and possible death. Even though a medical staff member could take all the measures set up through HIT technology itself is not perfect and an error could occur which then could be linked to a medical error. There are a lot of
Healthcare System Change is always undergoing, a major implication that continue to be completely solved is the cost of healthcare. Due to the vast amount of uninsured people how to balance out the cost hasn’t been identified. This along the lines of bundled payments, accountable care organization and other payment inquires for free-for-services, is something that HIT will face during healthcare system changes. With testing different experiments on ways to correlate the healthcare delivery system function. Having continuous alterations will impact the sources experts used for information for future and present health care