Abstract
There is no industry that does not benefit from the advantages of information technology (IT). Health care industry is no different from them. IT solutions are used to (1) minimize the human resource required for labor-intensive or time consuming tasks by automating them, (2) benefit from the intelligent software solutions that not just store the data in electronic format but also ease the decision making process, (3) accelerate the business processes by providing services simultaneously, and (4) provide maintainable and consistent services. Despite all of these advantages, health care industry spends only 2% of its revenues on technology, which is very limited when it is compared to other industries that spend around 10% (1). According to the report published by University of Illinois at Chicago’s Online Health Informatics Program, 50,000 health care informatics professionals will be needed in the next 5-7 years which means 21% projected increase in health care informatics jobs between 2010 and 2020 (2). The advantages of IT solutions for health care industry can be listed as:
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