The Impact of Technology on Patient Safety

  Healthcare information technology is defined as the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision making. Patient safety is a subset of healthcare and is defined as..

Improving Communication in Health Care

  As many employees in the healthcare field travel to various facilities and make home visits, real-time communication can be especially challenging. Healthcare workers don’t regularly check email as most of their time is spent on the go, working with patients, so it’s difficult to stay current on company updates..