Technology in Patient and Healthcare Information

Technology in Patient and Health Care Information
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February 16, 2020
In this age, the advancement of and technology is unstoppable, they always come hand in hand, and both have a vital purpose in all institutions may it be school, company hospital, and even in our daily life. One of the aspects that technology plays an important role is through healthcare, in which it is a blessing in such a way that it helps the hospital or healthcare system to improve and save incalculable lives every day (Duarte, 2012).
In the field of information technology, it has made considerable changes in the aspect of information sharing, before, through the mail, nowadays, you can even talk to someone in one push of a finger. In medical practice. The increased usage of E- records or electronic recording, telehealth assistance, and handy technologies like your mobile phone and iPad. Through the use of mobile phones and social media, long-distance care to patients is no longer impossible; patients sometimes consult doctors online and avail their medicines online (Sahni, 2017).
With the emergence of the use of technology, more numerous institutions like hospitals and clinics use technology like mobile devices or pager at work medical practitioners can immediately hold to any data they demand from research to therapy of the patient. They can quickly have the patient's charts, view x-ray images, and MRI through their mobile phones.
E-Records or electronic health records renewed the old practice of written charts or records; it turned the table for everyone in the medical world. Medical aid to a medical transcriptionist to nurses are just some of the jobs that have been influenced by this transformation in the storage of information (Watkins,2018).
Medical practitioners like nurses, or medical transcriptionist are the ones accountable for entering patient information into a digitalized and centralized type of system., and it eases their workflow because it is not time-consum...