Decision Making Regarding Technology

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Decision Making Regarding Technology

Introduction

Decision-making is an essential and critical activity that every organization has to ensure is done the right way regardless of the industry. However, the need for high accuracy is more incumbent on the nature of the service being offered. For example, accuracy and quality of decisions made in the health care industry are more demanding because it involves saving people's lives and probably averting possible health care problems that may affect a large population of people. An excellent example of a health care problem that requires a very accurate decision is the current case of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without better decision-making, a large population across the world can be highly affected. Despite the need for better decision-making mechanisms, managers in the health care sector cannot operate effectively without information technology. This report discusses one key technological application that can be used in the health care sector in decision-making.

One technology application that is used in health care to facilitate decision making.

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) system presents an opportunity for creating data visualization within a health care facility. Over the last three decades, human ailments have increased, making it complicated to filter and safe data relevant to closely-related human disease. Due to this increased need for big-data excavation and utilization, the Electronic Health Record comes in handy to help healthcare managers visualize all types of information saved within hospitals' databases (Shickel et al., 2017). Utilization of EHR facilitates real-time capture and retrieval of patients’ data such as diagnosis, medical history, immunization, family history, and other key elements captured with a patient visits a health care facility. When a health care manager wants to make some decisions, EHR summarizes data, tables, graphs, and trend prediction. These are the key elements of making evidence-based decisions in the health care industry (Shackle et al., 2017).

The application's impact on the quality of decision making.

The application of Electronic Health Record technology in decision making has a significant impact on the quality of decision making. First, technology enables managers to rely on hard evidence. According to Dautov et al. (2019), decision making in health care is critical and cannot be entrusted on instincts, hearsay, or other human common-sense reasoning. As such, a decision made in whatever instances should be based on tangible evidence, which in most cases, implies relying on available data; this what is referred are hard-evidence (Dautov et al., 2019). Secondly, using EHR promotes quality in decision-making because decision-makers can predict trends and observe the progress of previously made decisions as far as operation in health services provision is concerned. EHR pulls information from different interconnected databases and creates models that can be used to predict the future. This way, managers can always be prepared as they anticipate the model’s outcome due to the EHR's computing ability.

The process for selecting and implementing the application.

The first step in selecting a technological application in the health care sector is...