: Emerging Trends in Health Information Technology

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Select a significant trend in an area of health care of interest to you, and focus on one or two technological innovations that illustrate this trend. For example, you might wish to examine the trend toward greater productivity, and select a particular application for improving physician productivity.
•Conduct a literature search to learn more about this trend and innovative technology related to it. What are the factors driving, or limiting, this trend?
•Determine the pros and cons of the innovative technology from the perspective of the primary users or stakeholders.
•Consider the challenges this innovation will pose to managers, and how they can best anticipate and manage its ramifications. Be sure to incorporate in your thinking the various principles on IT design and management that you have learned throughout this course, as well as any articles and Web sites you located this week
Identify in the first line of your post the trend and technological innovation(s) within health care that you selected.
•Describe one or two emerging technological innovations that you think will significantly impact this trend or aspect of health care.
•What driving factors are influencing the development of this technological innovation? Provide a rationale for your response.
•Discuss managerial challenges this technology will pose. What role do you see for yourself in addressing these challenges?