Health Care Information Technology

Health Care Information Technology

Introduction

Increasingly present in the US health care system, the Information Technology and Communication (telemedicine, patient records common...) influence the organization care system, the relationship between medical professionals and city structures hospital, and the relationship between professionals and users. The e-patient record is expected by many health care networks and hospitals. It is expected to contain and convey information about the patient so reliable, secure and efficient. Some of the US hospitals are the site of numerous experiments telemedicine, but also development of networks of care. ICT particular allow better coordination between providers, in care for patients. We will discuss the majors below.

Discussion

Health context of ICT

What will the role of ICT in a health system that has problems in terms of demography medical, prevention, control costs, premature death in the US hospitals? The use of ICT is expected not only by health professionals, but also by residents and businesses. The use of new technologies is conducive to the emergence of new risks. In the health are paramount the confidentiality of personal data, their use and medical liability. 

Use of ICT

Access to and use of the Internet by businesses and populations are unevenly distributed on the planet. US have also disparities within its own territory and its people; we speak of "cyber-inequality". Number of Internet users regularly consults medical information. But studies performed in the Hexagon show relatively little online shopping and a fortiori in this field. The tool also integrates more and more into the practices of physicians' city ??and hospital. His interest is reflected among others in the establishment of city-networks hospital (not without cause ethical concerns and technical problems).

Offers ICT in health, experience in the US Hospitals

Telemedicine is a technology of communication has been one of booms the most important in recent years. ICT involved at different stages of care: diagnostics for assistance decision, ...