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Technology companies and Healthcare
Providers partner to work toward Healthcare
Reform
President Obama’s economic stimulus package
encourages the use of technology in our
nation’s healthcare system. For this area of
healthcare reform to become a reality, it
requires unique partnerships between
technology companies and healthcare
providers.
Information technology (IT), or the sharing
of critical information in a hospital, is
one way to help transform America’s
healthcare system. IT is essential in
providing high-level, high-quality
healthcare.
The partnership between
technology giant Siemens and Alegent, the
largest not-for-profit healthcare system,
has begun to create a completely paperless
communication system for hospitals.
A
paperless system increases patient care by
providing an accurate record of a patient’s
entire lifetime. Utilizing IT in healthcare
has also proven to be more cost-efficient,
accurate and less time consuming for both
patients and physicians.
Going hi-tech has already improved the
overall quality of care in areas of
medication administration, allergies and
immunizations.
