IT and Healthcare Performance

Paper Summary:

The paper proposes research to explore the correlation between investments in strategic management systems and healthcare organization effectiveness and performance. The paper provides a literature review that focuses on the development of enterprise content management (ECM) systems that unify all available content so it is accessible and usable by healthcare professionals. The paper shows how the proposed research will also evaluate the extent to which system integration increases healthcare providers' performance over the long term.

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"Healthcare organizations have allowed IT systems to flourish without defining an enterprise-wide approach to managing the extensive data they contain. This unorganized and at times chaotic growth has led to inefficiency in patient care (Glaser, 2007). When systems are not integrated as part of a broader enterprise-wide platform strategy, critical processes, some of which are essential in saving patients' lives, are not as efficiently managed as they could potentially be (Simpson, 1995). This lack of system integration on the part of healthcare providers robs them of the ability to gain a complete perspective of their patients and the possible treatment plans to increase the likelihood of recovery (Purbey, Mukherjee, Bhar, 2007) and Noor (2007). The essence of the problem is allowing all forms of content to be fragmented throughout a healthcare organization, not defining a strategic plan for integrating IT systems into a single platform that is accessible by healthcare providers contributing in various roles in the organization."

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