Health Care Technology

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Title: Health Care Technology

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Abstract
The increasing need to manage medical information in the health care facilities calls
for optimized IT in disease diagnosis, treatment, patient monitoring, costs and also planning
for treatment. Technology in the health sector has changed in the health sector over the years
which has increased medical knowledge and availed more treatment and investigative
concepts. These achievements have been in attempt to bring satisfaction to patients and
improve their health. There is need for more information sources and also a mutual
relationships and improved access to health professions if patients’ needs are to be solved
adequately.

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Health information systems are increasingly becoming critical in the health care
sector. Health care technology has evolved since the time of Medicare and Medicaid era in
the 1960s where IT drivers were mainframes and storage. In the 2000s health care technology
has immensely increased. There is sufficient technology for commercial and real time health
decision support (Grandia, 2018). Over the years the most implemented systems in the health
setting are the systems used for automatic data transactions. This has increased the
availability of digitalized data. Reporting systems, which exist as components of transactions
in the hospitals, have faced a dramatic implementation over the years. The increase in
hospital technology system has been cultivated by the need to research, process, analyze and
use the knowledge and information gained to effect policies, public health and decision
making process and outcomes. An effective decision making in the health care setting
requires an effective system to provide reliable data which is not biased on the basis of
socioeconomic, age, race and gender characteristics (Phin, 2018). This report focuses on the
components and the factors that have contributed to increase in health care technology.
Information systems, especially at the lower levels, should be sustainable and simple.
This would prevent running costs and also easy for nurses and other stakeholders to operate.
Health professional need timely feedback for the data they collect. They also need good and
high quality health care data to promote and improve health and so is the feedback, should be
of high quality too (Snyder and Paulson, 2002). The Electronic medical record system is an
electronic health system used to keep individuals’ health information. This system has been
of high importance in the health sector. It helps to maintain work flow and improve patient
safety and the quality of health care delivery. The need for a more customized way to access
patients’ information is among the factors that led to the EMR. Health professionals can now
access health information about a client easily, have a computerized decision support when it