Please read below and answer the question at the bottom and explain in depth.

The role information plays in strategic planning in healthcare is to enable the key stakeholders in the planning process to prepare a strategic plan that adequately addresses the various components of the healthcare. In other words, information guides the process of preparing the strategic plan starting from the first phase to the last phase.

With the information, the planners are able to know how to structure the strategic plan so that it reflects all essential components of the healthcare. The information acts as a yardstick to which the planners will keep on referring to in a bid to prepare a strategic plan that meets the goals of the healthcare. They are able to define the goals and objectives of the strategic plan based on the available information pertaining to healthcare and its activities. Therefore, the information helps in determining the goals of healthcare and the path that can be used to realize them.HIT is Health information Technology.

This plays a very important role in improving the quality of health care being provided to the end user and also maintaining a record of the same. This system supports the health information management system across computerized systems and ensures a secure exchange of :-

health information between consumers, health service providers, payers and quality monitors.

There are many categories and sub categories that have been developed to provide the best practices through the use of HIT.

1. Practice Management Software. To provide the maximum coverage of every task covered under "HIT" umbrella.

2. Electronic Medical Records :- Keeping track of the patient medical history. Provides better diagnoses of the patients.

3.Electronic Health Record :- This helps to keep the Medical record of the patients medical history and can be shared with other EHR's.

OTHER benefits / software systems under HIT are as Patient Portals; Scheduling : Medical Billing; ePrescribing...

The use of technology is now changing the age-old practices that were followed in the past. The new technology is helping provide better solutions to the patients and convenience to the medical healthcare teams.

1. What role does information play in strategic planning in healthcare?

a) How can HIT help healthcare providers adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment? Provide examples of several HIT systems experiencing significant growth.

b) Evaluate the statement that an integrated delivery system (IDS) is the wave of the future and is critical to future organizational success.

c) How might an IDS use HIT as part of its strategy?