Computers in the Workplace
Based on my current understanding of information technology within the healthcare industry, technology is forever growing. The importance of healthcare workers being computer literate is a matter of whether they want to keep their jobs or not. Every career field within our clinic in some shape or form uses some type of application to do their job, as well as communicating to other sections. For instance, if my team is about to deploy and we are in need of combat gauze, it is not simple enough to just call medical supply and get some. The team has a dedicated supply custodian who understands uses medical supply applications, who then enters in replenishments of combat gauzes using our organizational funds. Once entered, medical supply receives the request and either pulls the items off their shelf or places the order off a default vender who then delivers the items within their lead times. In the past, a huge change was towards outpatient records because medical records on patients were all paper based. When a member moves, they receive this large stack of medical records. But now, as we are moving into a digital era, outpatient records have transition from paper to electronic. So now when a member moves, they receive a single disc of their medical records. So for this instance, I would hope over the next ten years, all military Defense Health Agencies (DHA) facilities will communicate with each other, so members would no longer need to pull medical records when they deploy or move.
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