Healthcare Management 3662 Midterm

Healthcare Management 3662 Midterm

Select three of the five questions. Limit your writing to the space provided. Please be clear and succinct in your answers.

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Instructions: Select three of the five questions. Limit your writing to the space provided. Please be clear and succinct in your answers.

1. The healthcare industry has a much lower level of adoption of digital records than other industries (e.g. banking with ATM’s, airlines with web-based, mobile-based reservations). Why is that? Why has it been so difficult to achieve widespread use of electronic medical records (EMRs)?

Although electronic health records have taken hold of many hospitals, its implementation to date has been slow and somewhat haphazard when compared to other industries.

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