The Importance Of Health Information Technology

The primary goal of health information technology is to provide a better understanding, and exchange of information among different population groups and entities such as health care professionals, patients, payers within and outside the organization. If health information technology has been adopted widely, there would be more than $81 billion annually save in the United States only (Gee & Newman, 2013). Despite the vast improvement of health information technology in the current century when compared to the past, there still many challenges in adopting the technology. For example, patients and healthcare providers’ frustration with the current system, and a high cost of the information technology can be mentioned. However, healthcare organizations

Rather than the physicians’ solely make decisions, using EHRs as a shared decision making and education by incorporating patients’ decisions is the best care options. This approach plays a significant role in engaging patients because it empowers and motivates patients to adopt care on their exceptional values and perspectives. Because EHRs allow physicians- patients’ decision-making process when amenable incorporated the participation of the patients’ decision-making, it provides a better understanding, review education materials, demonstrates the use of clinical decision support tools, and provides a deeper understanding of the medical service outcomes. Consequently, patients can play a substantial role in optimizing their health outcomes through active participation in a decision-making process (Asan, Young, Chewning, & Montaague, 2015). For example, when such decision making is a bidirectional, patient-physician equal participation, the patients can easily engage in identifying their values, motivations, and actively participate in learning the health management skills by going through the literature provided via the EHRs, and using the patient portal prior to their next