HCS 212 Medical Technology
Medical Technology
HCS 212
Medical Technology
Medical technology is expecting to have many changes for the future. The Affordable Care Act is a major health care reform that passed in March of 2010. The goal is to protect patients’ rights and decrease the number of uninsured Americans and lowering the overall health care costs. The new reform will cause many new changes and medical technology will increase.
The Affordable Care Act is promoting the development of electronic health records (EHRs). They believe that having electronic health records it will decrease cost, help the duplication and claim processing which allows multiple providers to rely upon one laboratory findings and detect fraudulent billing practices. There are many people in the medical field that doubt whether digital information benefits the quality of care. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) explain the significance of digitalizing health care; they believe IT will play a central role in the redesign of the health care system if a substantial improvement in health care quality is to be achieved during the coming decade.
In the 1900s the country was rapidly being introduced the possibilities of computers and digital information. The number of households with internet increased 58 percent with access to the news, research, shopping on line, and communication, health care was the next sector for implementing information technology. The transition as we all know is proved to be troublesome because medicine involved thousands of individual businesses, a centralized, efficient acquisition process would not be possible. A majority of physicians practiced solo or very small group practices the cost would be prohibitive, plus the chaos of vendors trying to outsell each other and meet the demand for the in-office technology resulted in software programs that did not talk to each other.
Then in 2003 the office of Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of
HCS 212
Medical Technology
Medical technology is expecting to have many changes for the future. The Affordable Care Act is a major health care reform that passed in March of 2010. The goal is to protect patients’ rights and decrease the number of uninsured Americans and lowering the overall health care costs. The new reform will cause many new changes and medical technology will increase.
The Affordable Care Act is promoting the development of electronic health records (EHRs). They believe that having electronic health records it will decrease cost, help the duplication and claim processing which allows multiple providers to rely upon one laboratory findings and detect fraudulent billing practices. There are many people in the medical field that doubt whether digital information benefits the quality of care. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) explain the significance of digitalizing health care; they believe IT will play a central role in the redesign of the health care system if a substantial improvement in health care quality is to be achieved during the coming decade.
In the 1900s the country was rapidly being introduced the possibilities of computers and digital information. The number of households with internet increased 58 percent with access to the news, research, shopping on line, and communication, health care was the next sector for implementing information technology. The transition as we all know is proved to be troublesome because medicine involved thousands of individual businesses, a centralized, efficient acquisition process would not be possible. A majority of physicians practiced solo or very small group practices the cost would be prohibitive, plus the chaos of vendors trying to outsell each other and meet the demand for the in-office technology resulted in software programs that did not talk to each other.
Then in 2003 the office of Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of
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