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Stylios Alton Trachanas provide a health care system that generates a huge amount of information. The ability to share that information quickly with other health care providers is vital.
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The Importance of Health Care Information Systems Integration Stylios Alton Trachanas
Stylios Alton Trachanas provide a health care system that generates a huge amount of information. The ability to share that information quickly with other health care providers is vital. Health care information systems integration results in many benefits to medical facilities, medical professionals and to the patients themselves. Mobilizing patient medical information through electronic means should be the goal of our entire health care system.
Why Integration is Vital • Health care information systems integration saves money in the long run through the enabling of information sharing. This eliminates the duplication of services, prevents redundancy in equipment and the maintenance of the equipment, and reduces the staffing needs within individual medical facilities.
Stylios Alton Trachanas says savings in time when health care information systems are integrated is enormous. Medical information does not have to be entered again, but simply retrieved from its original source. Employee compensation is greatly reduced and numbers of personnel can be kept to a minimum.
Barriers to Integration • However, accomplishing the integration of health care information is a daunting task. Even though the health care industry realizes that integration is beneficial, actually bringing it about is not easy. Individual facilities have their own systems in place. Changing them is difficult and can result in a great amount of confusion, retraining for employees, downtime, and large financial outlays. The solution is an HL7 interface engine.
There are many HL7 providers, but selecting the best one is important for individual medical facilities. In general, HL7 software should: • Identify potential problems at the outset • Provide project consulting • Offer upgrades on a regular basis
Training • In addition, the company providing the HL7 interface engine should provide training to the facility's staff so that all of the software features can be fully utilized by the team working with the interface engine.
