Healthcare HR and IT Systems

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This paper discusses the various roles that IT plays in the healthcare industry with particular attention towards the core IT role in human resources. IT is identified in the paper, as a key driver in generating cost-savings while also vital to implementing and executing on the organization, overall mission and strategy. This paper examines human resource in an outsourced capacity as well as an application facilitated capacity internal to the organization. The final comment of this paper, is directed at the role IT plays in quality management which is generally integrated into a human resources functional department.

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"While information technology (IT) is vital across the full spectrum of the healthcare and managed healthcare industries, IT is arguably most important in the human resources (HR) component of the core IT applications within the healthcare industry. The reasons such an argument can be made vary, however, primarily it relates to the fact that HR in its entirety (department, total payroll and associated costs) is one of the largest expenses in any organization but especially in healthcare. Any application or strategy, IT related or not, that reduces HR expenditure and increases HR efficiency in part or in sum, allows great cost savings across the organization and increases shareholder value."

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