• Both Presidents Bush and Obama supported the electronic health records. • There is a new product called electronic aspirin, which is an implant on the side of the head normally impacted by a headache. • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a medical robot that can make rounds, checking on patients in different rooms. • The general term of informatics refers to the science of computer application to data in different industries. • Health or medical informatics is the science of computer application that supports clinical and research data in different areas of health care. • Health information systems are systems that store, transmit, collect, and retrieve these data. • Health information technology’s (HIT) goal is to manage the health data that can be used by patients/consumers, insurance companies, health care providers, healthcare administrators, and any stakeholder that has an interest in health care. • The establishment of a chief information officer (CIO) in healthcare organizations emphasized how important information systems and technology had become to healthcare organizations. …. … …. The U.S. healthcare system has been the world leader for developing cutting-edge technology in health care … • In 2001, the Institute of Medicine published the report “Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century,” which stresses the importance of improving the information technology infrastructure. • They emphasize the importance of an electronic health record (EHR), an electronic record of patient’s medical history. • They also discuss the importance of patient safety by establishing data standards for collecting patient information. .. The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT) defines the electronic medical record (EMR) as the electronic record of health-related information on an individual that is accumulated from one health system and is utilized by the health organization that is providing patient care while the electronic health record (EHR) accumulates more patient medical information from many health organizations that have been involved in the patient care which can be shared with other sites … • According to DHHS, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was enacted as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was designed to stimulate the adoption of health information technology in the United States. 
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