SP Technolab

Health Care Industry

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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