Name: Ogu Sheriff Ebere[up student]
School: EF language school
Teacher: Jane Watson
Topic: Health Information Technology And Manually Medical Record And Report
Date: Sunday, 26th April, 2015.
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANUALLY MEDICAL RECORD AND REPORT
Health information technology [HIT] is defined as the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing and use of health care information, data and knowledge for communication and decision making.
Furthermore,in the above aforementioned concept there are three grand topics that exhibits its qualities and potentials in order to make Health Information Technology what it is today. ‘’Technology’’, ‘’health’’ and ‘’information’’. Technology is viewed medically as computers and communication attributes that can be networked to build systems for moving health information, informatics refers to the science of informatioon while tthe health information refers to the intersection of information science, computer science and health care.
Moreover, the implementation of Health Information Technology has brought a large and verse change to the economy today, prescribing errors are the largest identified source of preventable errors in hospitals which in its place leads to health devastation but because of Health Information Technology the errors involved in issueing and prescription of drugs is minimal.
HIT has also improved health care quality and effectiveness and producttivity or efficiency. The present method of health care services has broadly playe dthe role of improving quality health care and effectiveness by reducing the work load of staff and allowing patient to be taken care of with much attention and time thereby leading to efficiency.
Finally,Health Information Technology and Manually medical recordings and Reports works in pari-pasu and has played a lot of roles. They both plays a redeeming