1. What is the Health Information Technology (HIT) impact on healthcare managers/administrators?
2. What do you have questions about or want to know more about regarding HIT?

UIUE OF HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HIT) - Portability: EMR in your pocket - there's an Virtual healthcare: be "seen" without need for physical exam - Future uses of technology in health care include: - Patients wearing computers to regulate and/or monitor their health status - Embedded microchips Systems improvements for complex information FUTURE OF HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HIT) - Interoperability: ability of different technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and use information - Optimizing existing vs. replacing existing EHRs with more improved systems - Data integrity: integrity and accuracy to obtain reliable data for decision making - Cybersecurity: Privacy protection - Cloud Based Systems: Cloud based service and outsourcing ADDITIONAL GROWTH AREAS - E-health: electronic data transfer - mHealth: mobile technologies for healthrelated activities (look at phone-there is health app) - Telemedicine \& Telehealth: practicing at a distant site - Health informatics, analytics, \& big data: aggregating, analyzing, and sharing data trends will inform research and policy. HIT IMPACT ON THE MANAGER - Complex and quickly evolving work environment - Effective managers must use technology themse and understand well enough to manage effectiveness of their employees use. - Dependency will create new norms around computer competencies, processes during "downtimes," etc