Health Information Technology (HIT)
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A Health Information Technology (HIT) is a health technology that is an information technology.
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- See: Health Care, Health Information Management, Health Information Exchange, Health Professional, Health Care Quality, Electronic Health Record.
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/health_information_technology Retrieved:2022-2-10.
- Health information technology (HIT) is health technology, particularly information technology, applied to health and health care. It supports health information management across computerized systems and the secure exchange of health information between consumers, providers, payers, and quality monitors. Based on an often-cited 2008 report on a small series of studies conducted at four sites that provide ambulatory care – three U.S. medical centers and one in the Netherlands – the use of electronic health records (EHRs) was viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system. According to a 2006 report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in an ideal world, broad and consistent utilization of HIT would: *improve health care quality or effectiveness
- increase health care productivity or efficiency.
- prevent medical errors and increase health care accuracy and procedural correctness
- reduce health care costs.
- increase administrative efficiencies and healthcare work processes
- decrease paperwork and unproductive or idle work time
- extend real-time communications of health informatics among health care professionals
- expand access to affordable care
- Health information technology (HIT) is health technology, particularly information technology, applied to health and health care. It supports health information management across computerized systems and the secure exchange of health information between consumers, providers, payers, and quality monitors. Based on an often-cited 2008 report on a small series of studies conducted at four sites that provide ambulatory care – three U.S. medical centers and one in the Netherlands – the use of electronic health records (EHRs) was viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system. According to a 2006 report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in an ideal world, broad and consistent utilization of HIT would: *improve health care quality or effectiveness