Health Care information technology?

Health Care information technology?
Health information technology (HIT) provides the umbrella framework to describe the
comprehensive management of health information across computerized systems and its secure
exchange between consumers, providers, government and quality entities, and insurers. Health
information technology (HIT) is in general increasingly viewed as the most promising tool for
improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system (Chaudhry et al.,
2006). Broad and consistent utilization of HIT will:
Improve health care quality or effectiveness;
Increase health care productivity or efficiency;
Prevent medical errors and increase health care accuracy and procedural correctness;
Reduce health care costs;
Increase administrative efficiencies and healthcare work processes;
Decrease paperwork and unproductive or idle work time;
Extend real-time communications of health informatics among health care professionals; and
Expand access to affordable care.
Risk-based regulatory framework for health IT September 4, 2013 the Health IT Policy Committee
(HITPC) accepted and approved recommendations from the Food and Drug Administration Safety
and Innovation Act (FDASIA) working group for a risk-based regulatory framework for health
information technology.[1] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) kicked off the
FDASIA workgroup of the HITPC to provide stakeholder input into a report on a risk-based
regulatory framework that promotes safety and innovation and reduces regulatory duplication,
consistent with section 618 of FDASIA. This provision permitted the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (HHS) to form a workgroup in order to obtain broad stakeholder input from across the
health care, IT, patients and innovation spectrum. The FDA, ONC, and FCC actively participated in
these discussions with stakeholders from across the health care, IT, patients and innovation
spectrum.
HIMSS Good Informatics Practices-GIP is aligned with FDA risk-based regulatory framework for
health information technology.[2] GIP development began in 2004 developing risk-based IT technical
guidance.[3] Today the GIP peer-review and published modules are an excellent tool for educating
Health IT professionals[4]
Interoperable HIT will improve individual patient care, but it will also bring many public health
benefits including:
Early detection of infectious disease outbreaks around the country;
Improved tracking of chronic disease management; and
Evaluation of health care based on value enabled by the collection of de-identified price and quality
information that can be compared.
According to the article published by the Internal Journal of Medical Informatics,Health information
sharing between patients and providers helps to improve diagnosis, promotes self care, and patients
also know more information about their health. The use of electronic medical records (EMRs) is still
scarce now but is increasing in Canada, American and British primary care. Healthcare information
in EMRs are important sources for clinical, research, and policy questions. Health information
privacy (HIP) and security has been a big concern for patients and providers. Studies in Europe
evaluating electronic health information poses a threat to electronic medical records and exchange
of personal information.