Health Information Technology Analysis

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Health Information Technology is information technology that is applied to healthcare. It is the comprehensive management of health information in an electronic environment (Glandon, Smaltz, Slovensky, 2014). It provides a secure exchange between consumers, providers, government and quality entities. Health information systems main objectives are to improve quality of healthcare, prevent medical errors, decrease healthcare costs, increase administrative efficiencies and decrease paperwork, while also expanding the access to affordable care (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). There are several components to information technology, components such as data fields, office tasks automation, interfaces, and processing and reporting