The Role of Information Technology in Healthcare

The Role of Information Technology in Healthcare

Introduction

Information technology (IT) plays an emerging role in delivering, monitoring and communicating healthcare. IT transforms the way of treatment of many diseases which were considered incurable in the past (Jeffrey et al, 2007). These innovations are based on the relational databases, vast array of networking communications, unlimited disk storage and transfer of unlimited data across the world. IT is not only helpful for delivering healthcare to the patients, but also providing various tools to the doctors around the world to get update-to-date knowledge on the medical technologies and processes ...