Complexity of healthcare systems

With dramatic improvement in networks & associated technologies related to transmit images and data globally, that indeed leading to revolution in healthcare industry has never been greater. The amount of applications and numerous software that serve medical purposes have become branched and modified recently than before and also could not be controlled easily in front of high demands from society to services and needs. There are four major ways in which Information Technology (IT) will revolutionize health care, [Gupta, 2008]:

More offshore services: successive increment& continuously growth in the diagnostic services; particularly imaging such as X-rays, mammography with consultations through specialist or by Tele-medicine application. We are going to explain Tele-medicine in details later. Also offshore services including ambulance service, in-site hospitals and medical convoys. Therefore; limitation of service is endless according to problem size and level of people injuries.

Integration of health information systems: integration object is restricted mainly in creation one truthful record would be able to travel with patients everywhere. As a result of different working systems in past and implemented software codes were main data confusion and errors with set of conflicts came from misunderstanding, human mistakes and system errors. Although many systems working effectively & individually but integration is above all to build one data current road used as main back up of patient history for medical provider everywhere.

Drug safety monitoring on a global scale: this point is little carries mutual point between patient and medical workers including clinical physicians; whether drug safety alerts provide all data for clinically use about medicines administered by patient still there are a lot of evaluations could be measured depending on physician and pharmacist knowledge and experience, that mean system give you merely information but never give you how it works with certain patient or formerly feedback what must depending on history or other drug-drug interactions. Simply; you can look at Medwatch, program applied in US is that enough to prevent medicines interactions? Honestly not 100%, still human factor engineering and how data interaction is most important. None can deny the impact of information on working processes and patients, but human factor activity forms wider part of drug safety and monitoring.

More high quality information to doctors and patients: Websites such as WebMD have become a source of information for patients and doctors. These sites receive contributions of medical materials from doctors and scientists, and are enhanced by the automated search tools. Many such sites draw materials from on-line text books and medical journals.

Medical system working patterns and enormously development put medical worker under burden before patient; burden of acclimatization to build maximum knowledge of operations and services. According to gained knowledge and experience of working system which forwardly build good trust and fast solving skill with patient and other involved departments. Therefore; this idea pushed some countries to build one road of medical data supply what is called X-Road. This idea is not new or invention it came actually from double document account systems to uniform all data resources on the level of state but the way have been executed innovative and new in network technologies domain. Full health :)