The Role of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) in Health Care Level of Pakistan: A Literature Review
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https://doi.org/10.55737/qjssh.775491425Keywords:
Healthcare Actors, Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), Health Care Levels, Burden of DiseasesAbstract
This paper illustrates the debate and initiatives concerning the role of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) at the Healthcare level in Pakistan. This paper reviewed the recent literature on Healthcare Information technology (HIT) to explore the role of the healthcare actors' level and healthcare delivery level. The purpose of this study is to look at the expanding role in the form of the reduced burden of diseases by the improvement of efficiency and quality of healthcare such as saving the time of patients and doctors and more affordable healthcare to overall and reduced healthcare costs, and this is all by Health Information Management System (HIMS), Telemedicine and Mobile and electronic Health in the context of Pakistan; this search identified 1025 results, 85 of which were considered on the base of abstract and conclusion but most specified article related to the objective of this paper are 45 articles in which five on the efficiency of healthcare, three on the equitable healthcare, six on the lower healthcare costs, 15 on reducing the burden of diseases, and nine on the components of Healthcare IT. The main challenges of adopting Healthcare IT and suggestions are discussed.
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