The assignment is to include information technology in healthcare and how it has worked hand in hand during COVID 19. Below are some articles that maybe useful.

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The assignment is to include information technology in healthcare and how it has worked hand in hand during COVID 19. Below are some articles that maybe useful.
Alotaibi, Y. K., & Federico, F. (2017, December). The impact of health information technology on patient safety. Saudi medical journal. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc5787626/.
Alotaibi informs the reader that “patient safety is a subset of healthcare and is defined as the avoidance, prevention, and amelioration of adverse outcomes or injuries stemming from the processes of health care.” The author provides us with a report from 1999 from the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) stating that “To err is human” called for developing and testing new technologies to reduce medical error, and the subsequent 2001 report “crossing the quality chiasm” called for using information technology as a key first step in transforming and changing the healthcare environment to achieve better and safer care.
Arnold Milstein, H. D. (2019, June 18). Better U.S. Health Care at Lower Cost. Issues in Science and Technology. https://issues.org/milstein/.
The author spoke about “waste-trimming tools”in Healthcare. A valuable tool is EHR or EMR also known as Electronic health/medical records. “If implemented successfully nationwide, EHRs can yield savings of $77 billion annually, while simultaneously improving health outcomes. An EHR provides an easily accessible view of a patient’s health information generated by all encounters in any care-delivery setting. Such information typically includes the patient’s demographics, past medical history, physical examination findings, progress notes, medications, immunizations, laboratory data, and radiology reports.
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. (2020, May 15). Managing your health in the age of Wi-Fi. Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/in-depth/telehealth/art-20044878.
The article expresses the benefits and potential that Telehealth can have in the Healthcare world. Though Telehealth is relatively new, it is growing. The article states that “technology has the potential to improve the quality of healthcare and to make it accessible to more people. Telehealth may provide opportunities to make healthcare more efficient, better coordinated and closer to home.