Describe the background of today’s health IT landscape.

Description should include the following:

• Health informatics
• Health informatics vs. health information management
• Health information exchange (HIE)
• Clinical decision support (CDS)
• Electronic health records (EHRs)
• Electronic medical records (EMRs)
• Personal health records (PHRs)
• E-prescribing

The following infographic from HealthIT.gov illustrates the evolution of the Electronic Health Record: Electronic Health Records: How they connect you and your doctors (https://www.healthit.gov/infographic/electronic-health-records-infographic Links to an external site.). 

Process/Skill Questions:

• What is health IT?
• What is the health information exchange (HIE)?
• What were early HIE systems and why did they fail?
• How does our healthcare system currently exchange health information?
• How are health informatics and health information management different? How do they overlap?