Pros of HIT (Health Information Technology)
To start with, computer technology helps in preserving and analyzing the data collected from the patients which in turn helps in the in-depth understanding of the etiology, disease course and control. This is very crucial because of the rapid changes that are taking place in the disease patterns in the United States along with the varying medical practice methods (M.Young & J.Kroth, 2018, p. 45).
HIT also made major contributions in enhancing the national wide adoption of EHR’s (Electronic Health Records) (Halamka, Tripathi, & Ph, 2017).
Secondly, it also helps to access the medical records of the patients from different agencies in a particular geographical area at one point in time. This will reduce the costs & time of maintaining and accessing the medical
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55). According to Institute of Medicine there are many studies and randomized control trials to prove the effectiveness of HIT in decreasing the physician errors (increased guideline-based care in the range of 5 – 66%, decreased medication errors from 55% to 86%, increased accuracy from 12 to 21%), improving the patients quality care by enhancing the appropriate ordering and completing of preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic care that resulted in positive health outcomes (Young et al., 2010), (M.Young & J.Kroth, 2018).
In conclusion, apart from the above-mentioned drawbacks, there are many other complexities that make HIT implementation challenging. To accomplish the HIT goals of improving the quality of health care, reducing costs, so much work needs to be done in the research arena (M.Young & J.Kroth, 2018, p. 65).
References
Halamka, J. D., Tripathi, M., & Ph, D. (2017). The HITECH Era in Retrospect, 907–909.