Communication and Information Technology
HCS 320
Tarah Wells
Even though when we keep anything electronically we are taking a risk that someone can access that
information. Another disadvantage is that if the system happens to crash then you have no access to that information. Communication and information technology is surely advancing. Health care presents more advance ways to perform duties efficient and promptly. The information is updated with frequency, and can include sounds, photos and videos that travel around the world in minutes. Many businesses have benefit from this technology and healthcare is one of them. The medical records are more easily accessible among ...view middle of the document...
When information is just told over the phone something could be missed or translated incorrectly. Being able to send it electronically would make it much easier for all involved and you would have to worry about human mistakes.
Since its beginning the internet communication grow rapidly and it has continue growing. Today the healthcare staff can share business data, assist colleague with problems and questions, transmit files by email and get feedback from or patients. Health information was something people can only obtained at the doctors office at the beginning of the century. In the 1990s Internet starting giving people instant access to health information right in their homes, offices, schools libraries or anywhere that a computer with internet access is located. Every patient would have a paper chart. This would include there personal information, which included social security number and medical history. Physicians would document there progress notes and any orders for tests or medications. The nurses would document when they gave medication to there patients. This process was very time consuming and sometimes very hard to read. With electronic medical records this process has become much easier on the physicians and nurses. Especially for nurses because now they can read what the physicians are ordering. There are touch screens that make ordering medications easier, faster and accurate. If the medication is not in the patients chart the nurse can not order it. When insurance companies request medical records instance of mailing the records which can take several days, now these records can be electronically done. The disadvantages is if the computer system goes down than the nurses can not see patient’s records and it...
