Technology Role in Health Care

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Introduction

Technology plays a crucial role in various businesses. In health care institutions, technology will escalate and speed up various systems by proper use of it. Networking of system needs to be carried out in order to establish an integrated system within the institution.



Crucial Considerations for establishing a computer network environment for an integrated health care system

Challenge of Diverse Systems

One of the main considerations is that vendors have not established computer systems that support an integrated health care system. However, the vendors and health care institutions are now working together to offer such a system. The major problem arises when the vendors work with their partners (Smith, 2007). They purchase software for their hardwares from other companies. Consequently, this causes problems for those institutions of health care who have diverse systems installed; one in Pharmacy, one in Clinical Lab, in Radiology and other such departments. These diverse systems are not compatible with each other. The compatibility issue needs to be resolved.

Cost

Large computer systems and networks are more expensive than the conventional PCs. However, they have their advantages associated with them. In the long run, as the user base on these large system increases, there occurs sharp decrease in per user cost.

Staff

A large staff of network administrators and computer operators is required for handling the network related issues.

Development

Software and program development experts are required by the health care systems to design, analyze and program softwares according to the requirements of various designs. For this purpose, an enormous amount of cost is spent on these programmers.

Effect of Integrated systems on the installation of networks

There are several effects of integrated systems on the installation of networks. The management system and operational support infrastructure of networks within integrated systems get affected. One of the ...