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.
Your topic sounds interesting, as many of us know medicine and technology are always changing, (hopefully for the better) It would be interesting if you added parts of compare contrast to show the advances in technology. It might help if you gave examples of the new technology, and how that has made hospitals and patient care more efficient. I think your interviews will help with primary sources to see how the new technology has effected them in the medical field. You state that patient safety has increased do to the changes, I know that many hospitals have websites that give you stats on patient care, outcomes, falls, and overall view of the hospital. This might help you with some of your research.
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