Health Information Technology
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Health Information Technology
Healthcare information technology is on the rise and indeed is a long leap in the healthcare industry. The main aim of HIT is to improve the performance of delivered services, enhance health care quality and efficiency, and involve patients as effectual partners in their own health safety. To achieve this goal, innovative ways like collaborative data visualization methods, wellness trend predictions, risk estimation, proactive activity status monitoring, and knowledge of complex disease indicators are incorporated into the function abilities of the healthcare system. This enhances precision in quality of care and improve quality affordable healthcare.
While the assumption of HIT is a laudable move Julian Wiener unravels the dark side unabated side that looms this assimilation. She portrays implementation failure as the greatest threat in this innovative advancement and portrays the loopholes in it that should be addressed for quality assurance. Implementation failure is the failure to deliver a program as intended resulting to failure to achieve the intended intervention effects and advance intervention effects due to lack of acceptance. This is fetal to patient safety and may lead to harm and may frustrate and demoralize the staff that use this integrated.
Therefore, to avoid negative consequences of implementation failure, such as increased mortality rates, the HIT implementation should go beyond standardization to the state of high reliability. High reliability focuses on safety as the key aspect rather than performance. Weinert thus proposes the use of implementation science and more research to guide the development, implementation and evaluation of HIT into the healthcare system. This opinion is vital in the realization of improved and innovative ways in the delivery of quality healthcare.
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Understanding health information technologies as complex interventions with the need for thorough implementation and monitoring to sustain patient safety. (n.d.). Frontiers. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fict.2019.00009/full
