Health Information technology is the exchange of health information electronically. Health IT has been known to improve the quality of health care costs, alleviate medical errors, decrease paperwork, and increased administrative efficiencies. Technology will continue to help improve the quality of healthcare and the processes that are involved. Technology fused with healthcare is a very innovative and efficient way that healthcare processes are improved. Technology is very useful to the healthcare field and will continue to grow immensely as time passes on.
Reference:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Website (2011). Health Information Technology. Retrieved June 5, 2011 from http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/special/healthit/
Just read that IBM's Watson is being groomed as a "physician's assistant"
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