Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Impact Of Automation On Health Care Organizations

Certain surgical operations are risky and can be fatal due to human errors. They can be replaced by programmed surgical operations to get precise and accurate results. Built-in workflow capabilities enable health care organizations to automate IT support processes to ensure fast response to your needs.

Two benefits of automated systems in health care organizations are very clear: faster and better with increased patient satisfaction and decreased errors. IT decreases the cost of health care through the power of automation to realize efficiencies that effect positive change. Automation can reduce the time taken by the manual procedures.

Hospitals today face constant challenges to find new ways to improve the quality of health care and reduce cost. Medical automation provides revolutions even in the fields of bio medicine, process management and nano technologies. Software researches and medical researchers develop automated techniques for the easy work flow .The different applications of automation in the various departments of health care are as follows.

1. Administrative: For managing health care organization and patients. Here the approaches used are simulation, automation, integration. The processes being done are : Check in/out discharge forms etc.

2. Financial: For managing revenue of health care organizations. Here again automation is used. The processes being done here are Insurance follow up etc.

3. Clinical operational: For executing the tasks of diagnosis and treatment. It does patient monitoring, tele medicine, order/administer medications, used for vision, used for disease management etc.

4. Clinical therapeutic: For clinical operations and decisions and it does treatment for cancer, diabetes etc using the automated techniques.

Apart from these, there are many applications of automation in health care industry such as in laboratories, patient administration, drug storage etc.

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