Improvement of Technology in Healthcare Delivery System

Technology has improved and completely transformed the medical office in the public health sectors across the world. Health care practiced today cannot be virtually recognized from the one practiced in the past centuries. Technology has improved healthcare delivery system, with the introduction of EMRs, paper based medical records, which were mostly incomplete and fragmented, hard to read and hard to find, were replaced by single, up to date, rapidly retrievable source of information, potentially anywhere at any time, sharable, accurate system which require less space and administrative resources.

Technology had also introduced automation, structuring and streaming of clinical workflow in the healthcare system. Technology has also provided an integrated support for a wide range of discrete healthcare activities which include monitoring, decision support, electronic prescribing, laboratory ordering and results display, and electronic referrals radiology. With the introduction of the