IT System in Healthcare

Background Overview of Healthcare Healthcare encompasses a great deal of sub-sectors including pharmaceuticals, homecare, scientific research, and hospitals. However, whenever the word 'healthcare' is mentioned, the most notable images that jump to anyone's mind are hospitals. Hospitals are essentially microcosms of the healthcare system. Inside a typical hospital there are: pharmacies, patient care wards, emergency rooms, administrative services, laboratories, imaging services, geriatric wards, and many more. Thus, hospitals are an excellent representation of the healthcare …

…success is their high patient turnover, lower costs of labour, and continual investments in new equipment and technology. All these factors contributed positively to the success of American hospitals. By implementing IT, the Canadian healthcare system can simulate what our American counterparts already have but at the same time retain public healthcare. Furthermore, because Canada is lagging in this sector, Canada will be able to learn from the successes and failures of the United States.