Evolution of Health Care

Evolution of Health Care Information Systems

University of Phoenix

Health Information Systems

HCS/533

Evolution of Health Care Information Systems

Health care technology continues to change every day. In the past 20 years, how an individual's health care information is seen, used, or stored in ones primary care physician private office has a dramatic change. The expansions of the worldwide web, the evolution of electronic medical records and electronic health records have dramatically changed how physician-client information is exchanged. On any given day a patient would walk into the physicians' office to see a massive bookcase holding the vast amount of patient health information records in different stages of disarray. The office clerk or receptionist would try...