Health Care Information Systems are important in dispensing of information throughout the organization. You will develop a research paper on a health care technology that has become essential to the...

STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING SUCCESSFUL ADOPTION OF HEALTH CARE
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Executive Summary
US Healthcare system is probing to implement Health Information Technologies to
meet different objectives which has an impact on care quality. Like inside Hospitals clinical
outcomes and improvement in operational efficiency, which consequently leads to the
etterment of financial performance, is an aim for Hospitals to gain attention of stakeholders
which include government and more patients. But constant pressure from stakeholders to
include HIT which is done by showing the token of reward from Federal Government to
provide a certification on Electronic Health Record (EHR), which would help to achieve
goals in coming years. And one more external constraint over to this is if Hospitals fail to
implement within the deadlines would lose their certification by 2015. Hence constant
internal and external pressure governing forces make it necessary to implement Information
Technology system. (Chin, 2004).
Past experiences suggest that Hospitals have failed in their attempts to execute complicated
HIT systems. This shows that successful implementation require Planning, Training of staff,
Development of policy, integration of application and rollout programs which subsequently
take years to employ. (Burke, Yu, Au,and Menachemi 2009)
American Hospital Association’s had done survey in 2007 to find out the
completeness of HIT implementation, to understand the technological advance strategies in
facilities. To identify this logistic regression was employed to relate it with implementation
status of HIT in different hospitals. These findings are important for policymakers to design
and formulate new plans.
Effectiveness of HIT strategies which are used to save time and provide safety to
patients can be seen. Intervention of government and federal system to implement HIT which
is very persuasive. Failure to do so is restraining US healthcare system to provide a good
quality health care system to its patients. And even if they are able to do they have to suffer
on cost.
The different kinds of HIT in the US are
 Billing would be taken care of virtually across healthcare facilities across the country.
 Suppliers of medicines and equipment to healthcare facilities linked through an ERP
(Enterprise Resource Planning) System which would act as an integrator for inventory
control, payroll processing and employee scheduling.
 Disease databases, personal records and images available across the same platform for
easier access to...