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As I already prepared in my first post, I would like it to be continually noted throughout all my posts: This is a place for opinion based responses based on educational background of licenses and certifications and work experience. I do hope to provide a good service but I am by no means your doctor. Any and all medication advice should be addressed with your physician. I'm just here to give you the extra details.

Friday, September 6, 2013

One of my school projects/ Health Care and IT

Since I am back in school and my classes pretty round out really what my blog is about, I might as well share my recent paper with you all. May give some insight on how the Health Care industry is under construction in more ways than one. So it maybe boring but here ya go! PS. I got an A. Ha.

Technology Article

 

Health care is constantly changing all over the world. Some places even have more advance modules and equipment that haven’t even yet made it to the states. One of the constants thought that have been underway is the changes on the technology of the use of certain computer software that is being used pretty much everywhere that provide health care services. The question is, has these advancements created an easier workflow atmosphere for medical professionals or has it hindered certain elements of patient care?

 

As noted in my introduction on the changes, or should I mention the quick changes that are taking place in the Health Care Fields all around is creating turmoil. Price pressures on the industry will get worse as health care budgets tighten, the emphasis will continue shifting to cost-effectiveness, and generic competition will increase. I see a response to that of the industry to be focusing less on community physicians and more on payers and key accounts. Basically looking at the Health Care system as a whole of what makes them the most money.

In my workplace I have felt this affect my department as well as watching affect others. Budgets are tightened to make sure that the departments that are already doing well financially will get certain programs as well as equipment while the other departments have to sit back and have things and people taken away.

Health-system pharmacist experience critical issues when it comes to the needs of patients and they are increasing, along with health care budgets are stretched thin and technology has the potential to significantly decrease the staff necessary to process medications for dispensing. This all in itself now aligns pharmacists to take over two roles: quality assurance of the medication dispensing process and direct accountability for patients’ drug therapy outcomes. One of the things that have helped over the past to help this issue is the transition of new health care programs that include sections for Pharmaceutical application to be used in conjunction with every medical professional in need to review a patient profile to help in the diagnosis and treatment for them.

After coming across an article that specified on federal loan fund programs operating through local nonprofits that can help make these promises to health care IT (Information Technology) becomes a reality for most health care workers. With anything, there has to be a large scale investment to help determine what would be the best method and what would be the usage dependent on the scale of the facility and practice. In this article it does mention the federal government has issued loan funding programs for this nature. I found this quote interesting in my reading, “Health care IT development has multiple aspects, but it is fundamentally a problem of community infrastructure development (Molly Joel Coye, 2003).


Everyone seems to be in agreement that IT is an influential method of use for all medical professionals but it seems to either be dependent on how large your pockets are or if you qualify for these forms of government programs even though the government believes that everyone should be using them. I use many pharmacy applications as well as other medical applications on a daily basis to help prevent medical errors along with keep track of my employees. I don’t see how I could do my job today with them. It is definitely sad to hear that not everyone has the opportunity to integrate these types of programs in their practice. I truly believe that these methods help saving many lives that we as humans that come with errors, we need assistance of these formats. I really hope one day that everyone will access to this structure and now reading this article, I am definitely thankful that so far in my career I have been lucky enough to work with them. 



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