As information and communication technology sustains to establish and advance in leaps and bounds, it is impacting almost every industry.
When it comes to healthcare, information technology will growingly help to extract value from chaos, in accordance to a new paper from the Regenstrief Institute.
The paper looks at a variety of categories of health IT involving electronic medical records; health information exchange; telemedicine; patient portals and personal health records; mobile devices, wearable sensors and monitors; and social media. It concentrates on the present use of these technologies, detail their potential and explain barriers that must be overcome to fulfill their promise of making better the health.
"When it comes to predicting the future of medicine and health IT, there is no crystal ball. We require making informed observations deployed on where we are now and inferring the possibilities," claims Burke Mamlin, M.D. Regenstrief Institute investigator and IU School of Medicine associate professor of clinical medicine and co-author of the paper.
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