Healthcare Information Technology: Fast and Accurate Information Access vs. Cyber-Security

Information Technology In Healthcare Sourroudings

Appropriate management of available healthcare data allows health systems to create holistic view of patient, personalize treatments, improve communication, and enhance health outcomes. Such management does not exclude personal contact with health care provider, contrary, it is enabling to use maximum of the face to face visit. Today, health IT is including more than “classical” duo of patient and healthcare provider (physician, pharmacist, and laboratory). According to Sittig et al. (2020), new members of the team are health IT professionals, administrators and cyber-security specialists. They are mandatory involved in the process of data sharing and data usage helping to achieve safer health care of higher quality, as presented in Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Healthcare data management team. Source: Authors’ work.