Examples of health information technology for hospitals and physicians
Type of information technology Applications
Hospitals
Administrative Billing and financial General ledger
- Cost accounting systems
- Patient registration
- Personnel and payroll
- Electronic materials management
Clinical Computerized provider order entry for drugs, lab tests, procedures
- Electronic health record
- Picture archiving and communication systems for filmless imaging
- Results reporting of laboratory and other tests
- Clinical decision support systems
- Prescription drug fulfillment, error-alert, transcriptions
- Electronic monitoring of patients in intensive care units
Infrastructure Desktop, laptop, cart-based, and tablet computers
- Servers and networks
- Wireless networks
- Voice recognition systems for transcription physician orders, and medical records
- Bar-coding technology for drugs, medical devices and inventory control
- Information security systems
Physicians
Administrative Billing and financial Accounting
- Scheduling
- Personnel and payroll
Clinical Online references (drug compendia and clinical guidelines)
- Receiving lab results and other clinical information online
- Electronic prescribing
- Computerized provider order entry
- Clinical decision support systems
- Electronic health record
- E-mail communication with patients
Infrastructure Desktop and laptop computers
- Handheld technology
- Servers and network
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