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Rank the four (4) broad categories of barriers to health information technology( Financial Barriers, Organizational and Behavioral Barriers, Technical Barriers, and Privacy and Security Barriers) from the greatest to the least. Next, identify at least one (1) additional barrier, and suggest a strategy to overcome the barrier in question. Provide a rationale to support your response. Analyze the fundamental manner in which the clinical information systems might affect patient care safety, quality, efficiency, and outcomes. Provide one (1) example to support your response.
Expert Answer
Ranking of four broad categories of health IT barriers are as follows.
- Financial barriers
- Technical barriers
- Organizational and behavioral barriers
- Privacy and security barriers.
Additional Barriers
Knowledge barriers – HIT is a very vast field of multiple disciplines in healthcare industry. Proper knowledge of informatics and its mediums is very necessary. To gain a proper sync between system and the information technology thus proper knowledge of technological terms are necessary..
Clinical information system
CIS is a computer based application which is designed to collect , store, manipulate and provide the data in required time.CIS can have records that can be accessed at any place at any time and can be used for training and research. This information an also be provided to the physicians for research purposes.
