Adoption Of Information Technology On Healthcare - 1103 Words

Adoption of Information Technology in Healthcare Anusha Rayapati National University Adoption of Information Technology in Healthcare This article explains the importance of adopting the Information Technology in healthcare industry. This article also discusses about the transformations that information technology can bring to the healthcare industry and potential cost effectiveness and safety benefits. I selected this article as information technology is very important in healthcare Purpose The purpose of this article is to estimate the benefits to the healthcare industry with the usage of information technology. Essentially this article evaluates the potential savings and costs with the adoption of electronic medical record (EMR)†¦show more content†¦Researchers Data and Methods The primary source of research data for quantifying the Health Information Technology of this article was from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). The researchers conducted a literature survey mainly on peer-reviewed for quantifying the savings from usage of Health Information Technology. The results from the survey is potential, because they exclude some saving, long term care cost and didn’t report the above mean values. For quantifying the cost adoption the researchers included overall cost of implementation cost, maintenance cost and provider downtime cost. This also includes the cost of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and Clinical Decision Support (CDS). The researchers used-â€Å"the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 1999 Inpatient file, the American Hospital Association (AHA) 2000 Hospital Survey, and the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) 2000 National Inpatient Sample† (Health Affairs, 24, no.5, 2005) d ata for quantifying the cost of adoption. The researchers used the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data for estimating potential health benefits. IT’s effect on other industries The researchers compared the health care with other industries information technology’s effect. Some of the industries hotel industry invested heavily on IT during 1990s they didn’t get the results immediately. But the improvement has seen slowly. Similarly the adoption of IT in