For most Americans, a trip to the doctor's office or hospital requires health personnel search through paper maps and records, care is administered. This is still the status quo, despite the increasing role played by the electronic communication and other aspects of our business and personal lives. Increased use of information technology (IT) in health care, primarily through the use of electronic health records (EHRs), which allow information to be easily transferred and shared between health professionals, is promoted as a means of improving quality of care and help control health care costs in the long term. However, he hastened to carrying out medical That will require a significant investment in the near future invasion, and will present a variety of other issues that must be addressed. Here we consider the advantages and benefits of health IT, and the costs and other issues that may serve as barriers to its widespread adoption and use. We conclude with a set of recommendations aimed at increasing the likelihood that an extensive expansion of the use of health it will give the desired results. "Hide
by Julia Adler-Milstein, David W. Bates Source: Business Horizons 12 pages. Publication Date: March 15, 2010. Prod. #: BH373-PDF-ENG
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