The purpose of this research paper is to look at how information technology has impacted health care delivery in hospitals in the United States. I obtained my information and research through the academic databases of Bemidji High School and Bemidji State University. The results I found was that the job impact on a new wave of technology was hard to pinpoint and ambiguous because there was a wide variety of results throughout many hospitals. Multiple research articles verified how information technology has made the delivery of healthcare more efficient, more productive, and contrary to common belief, it strengthens communication between hospital staff and increases staff to patient face to face time. The majority of the articles I found had many positive comments to make about information technology, but installing this type of infrastructure is initially very costly and requires a team of information technology personnel, nurses, and other management positions to have it run smoothly, which many small town hospitals do not have the resources and budget to do. I will use this information I found through the databases and connect it with my interview with a registered nurse and a pharmacist to learn how their skill set had to expand, their forms of communication have changed, and in what ways they have noticed an increase in patient safety because of the changes in healthcare delivery over the 25 years working in a small, but growing city.
