As healtheappointments.com writes:
As per Institute of
Medicine, “healthcare quality” is defined as the extent to which
health services provided to individuals and patient populations
improve desired health outcomes. The quality of care which is offered
by the US Health Care lags much behind its competitors at the
international level, on all measurable parameters. One such field is
the failure to use proper Information Technology to support the
quality of care. Despite the huge amount of money being spent on
healthcare by the US government, the quality of care that is
delivered is poor. Several loop holes exist in making proper
utilization of information technology in health care which are
discussed below. There could be changes made in each aspect of
quality of care to overcome such defects and make health care more
accessible, affordable and convenient for everyone. For example,
electronic medical records (EMR/EHR) are one of the basics in Health
Information Technology. Their advantages have been highlighted in
this paper. Though the nation spends a huge chunk of its GDP on
healthcare, it is still not able to successfully implement the EMRs
throughout the nation, in the health care system. Implementing these
records in the system will affect the quality of health care delivery
enormously. This paper attempts to explain few methods to implement
this system for improving health care systems. Overall this entire
article speaks about how the lack of information technology affects
different sectors in quality of care, existing strategies in market
and the goals to improve the health care.