Information Technology (IT) and Health Care

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This research study investigates and assesses the role and impact of information technology on the health care sector. The paper also looks at why the medical health care professions are not taking full advantage of the IT revolution and attempts to answer this question by determining what the objectives of central health care organizations are, what the critical success factors are for meeting those objectives, what decisions are key to those success factors, and what type of information systems will produce the desired and expected results. The paper also examines how the internal and external environment affects the impact of information technology on the health care sector and looks at why some strategies for implementing information technology are more successful than others.

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"Health care systems serve to perform the very important function of preserving human capital. In modern society, health care assumes significance not just in terms of the expenditure it generates, but also because it is a large-scale consumer of goods and services, important employer and contributes in research and development. From the perspective of countries, maintaining and improving health care services require significant investments. Consequently governments and the private sector consistently strive to improve the productivity levels of this sector by controlling costs. It is in this context that information and communication technology can play a key role in making both ends meet: ensure adequate health care for people at affordable costs. (Murphy, p. 12) "

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