ONC EHR Study – Positive Trends in Health IT But Significant Opportunities Remain
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) completed and published a study earlier this year in the journal Health Affairs that found growing evidence of the benefits of health information technology. Note how the ONC carefully crafted their study conclusion. The term “growing evidence” speaks to the gap, which continues to exist to this very day, between larger health IT “leader” organizations (early adopters of health information technology (HIT)) and the small to medium sized medical practices who have recently adopted.
One of the authors of this study and past national coordinator for HIT Dr. David …
Trends That Emerge Within Health Information Systems
The present material will identify and present some of the most important emerging trends in health information systems. Consequently, the text will discuss about Web services and semantic Web, Web 2.0, and HealthGrid.
The web services and semantic web encompass the software components or applications that interact when using XML and Internet technologies. Their major function is to express information and application logic and to transport information as messages. With a platform-neutral interfacing and communication mechanism and a wide infrastructure support in terms of servers and development environments, Web services offer the benefits of loose coupling, ease of integration and …
Trends of the Health Care Industry
The healthcare industry may be showing an upward growth in countries across the world but several areas are still not being taken care of that will enhance the provision Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes of health care to the common people. Almost 1/5th of the worldwide sale of healthcare is comprised by countries like Russia, Mexico, India, Indonesia, China and Turkey.
It was in the 1990s that the heath care cost started increasing. The 42 million mark was attained by Americans who did not have any health insurance or health care coverage. In the years to come, it is being predicted that considerable …