Selecting Health Care IT Projects and Priorities

Electronic exchange of clinical information is paramount in the provision of healthcare services. Health information exchange aids in the improvement of health care quality in an organization. Through health information data exchange, an organization is able to achieve greater efficiency by reducing unnecessary tests and services (Coiera, 2009). Health information data exchange also helps an organization to streamline the administrative tasks. Administration costs can greatly be reduced by easing the administrative tasks in a healthcare organization. An organization can also coordinate the health of the community. Medical and medication errors can greatly be reduced by sharing health information data. 

Healthcare providers can simplify the methods that they use in processing healthcare data. Healthcare organizations can create a common format of data to ensure that different organizations can collaborate (The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, 2019). A healthcare organization can use standardized data from another organization in treating a patient. An organization can obtain the details of a patient from another organization and use the details in making further treatments. 

Healthcare information systems solve the problems that organizations face in the day to day activities. An organization would be interested in integrating its systems so that it can reap the benefits of healthcare information digitization (The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, 2019). Through integrating its systems, an organization can automate the provision of healthcare services, and this would greatly improve efficiency of service delivery. Integration would also reduce miscommunication and aid in enhancing the patient’s outcomes. 

Big data exchange can help consumers to manage their healthcare. Healthcare data exchange can help consumers to be in charge of their healthcare information through an online portal (The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, 2019). Patients can be actively involved in the management of their healthcare information. Patients can, therefore, track and monitor their health. 

References

Coiera, E. (2009). Building a national health IT system from the middle out. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 16(3), 271-273.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. (2019). Why is health information exchange important? | HealthIT.gov. Retrieved from https://www.healthit.gov/faq/why-health-information-exchange-important