Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT (HCIT) is a digital healthcare system used by patients, providers (physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, etc.), payers (insurance companies), and government agencies to collect, store, analyze, compile, and share patient health data. Healthcare IT helps reduce health cost; prevent medical errors; improve patient health; and increase accuracy, safety, and convenience to the providers and payers; a Healthcare IT (HCIT) is a digital healthcare system used by patients, providers (physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, etc.), payers (insurance companies), and government agencies to collect, store, analyze, compile, and share patient health data. Healthcare IT helps reduce health cost; prevent medical errors; improve patient health; and increase accuracy, safety, and convenience to the providers and payers; as well as ensure effective patient care and real-time communication among healthcare stakeholders. Healthcare stakeholders use several healthcare IT tools, such as patient portals, personal health records, electronic health records (EHR)/electronic medical records (EMR), electronic prescription, patient billing, revenue cycle management, telehealth, picture archiving and communication system (PACS), and radiology information system (RIS), as well as payer’s tools such as claim management, fraud detection, payroll, CRM, and pharmacy audit. Healthcare IT has a variety of applications in diagnostics, healthcare administration, healthcare delivery, remote patient monitoring, clinical decision support (CDS), clinical trial management, drug discovery, healthcare payers, pharmacy billing, etc. Further, the growing adoption of cloud computing, mobile applications, data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML) is anticipated to play a critical role in shaping the future of healthcare IT. The importance of healthcare IT is further driven by government policies focusing on patient-centric reimbursement system and patient care quality across North America and Europe.

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