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Health Information Technology (HIT)
Health Information Technology (HIT) is the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software provided primarily for the electronic creation, maintenance, or exchange of health information across medical settings to:
- Better coordinate care
- Improve health care quality and safety
- Increase clinical and administrative efficiency
- Improve detection of natural and man-made population threats
- Enable research
- Provide cost savings
HIT is one enabler for transformation of the U.S. health care system. President Bush indicated his support for the use of HIT in April of 2004 when he called for the widespread adoption of HIT by 2014.
On October 17, 2006, Governor Sonny Perdue issued an executive order creating the Health Information Technology and Transparency Advisory Board. The Board will advise DCH on the best practices for encouraging the use of electronic health records and establishing a statewide strategy to enable health information to be readily available and transparent. DCH goals for HIT in Georgia are to enable the understandable, universal, timely and secure communication of health information across the public and private sectors for the benefit of today’s health care consumer.
This website was created to provide easy access to a number of health information technology resources. Content on this site will change based on national, state and local HIT activities.
We invite you to visit this site frequently.
For more information or to contact HIT click here.
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