Health Information Technology Architecture

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The issues faced in medical centers can be categorized into three;
Issues faced by-
 patients
 medical staff members
 the management
Issues faced by patients
Patients in medical centers deserve to be treated with good care and respect. Their medical
records should be private and confidential. A case where the nurse leaves patients documents open
where everyone can read is against their rights. A doctor should also not talk about a patient’s medical
health information with other people. Secondly, a case where the patient has to fill everything by hand
for the doctors to get required information, it may be challenging to those who don’t know how to write,
those who are very sick to remember anything and just came alone to the clinic. Thirdly when the
doctors give too many instructions to patients they may forget and sometimes it can be dangerous if it’s
a prescription. The issues being faced by patients are contrary to medical health care goals and missions
like understanding, patients and quality health care to patients.
Issues faced by the staff member
Staff members include nurses, managing officers, physicians, and receptionist’s medical staff
requires a suitable and convenient environment, understanding and coordination among the team, easy

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access to patients’ information, enough time with a patient and all patients’ medical data since birth in
order to perform their job perfectly. Contrary, staff is affected by issues like;
Nurses taking a long time looking for medical records in cabinets which may be misfiled or
even go missing.
Medical centers which have not adopted information technology like our case here make nurses
go through a hard time searching patients’ medical file which is stored manually in the cabinets. This
takes a lot of time which should have been utilized to do something else. This leads to poor quality
medical services. When the files have been misfiled or are missing it may lead to loss of patients’
medical data. This will lead to insufficient information.
Nurses may be required to work for a double shift due to insufficient staff
An insufficient number of nurses require nurses to work for a long period of time. Long working
hours can lead to poor services to patients because the nurses are exhausted. Information technology
assists in making work easier for nurses, hence better services to patients.
Difficult to compare records hence unable to analyze trends and patterns of patients’
diseases
Manually stored medical records will make it difficult for doctors to compare the trend of
diseases which are mostly affecting patients visiting their health care facility, hence unable to undertake
proper research which could have enhanced their experience in treatment. Information technology plays
an important role because it can be used to sort all the records making it possible for the nurses to
compare patterns of diseases. (Kijsanayotin, Pannarunothai, & Speedie,2009).
Being unable to understand what someone else has written.