Open AccessThe Importance of Informatics for Health Care Industry
Author(s) -
Abdullah Talha Kabakuş,
Resul Kara
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
acta medica anatolia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2148-2357
DOI - 10.5505/actamedica.2016.81300
Subject(s) - medicine , health informatics , informatics , health care , nursing , public health , economic growth , engineering , electrical engineering , economics
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 minimize the human resource required for labor-intensive or time consuming tasks by automating them, benefit from the intelligent software solutions that not just store the data in electronic format but also ease the decision making process, accelerate the business processes by providing services simultaneously, and 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%