research and report on two to three key HIT applications that are currently utilized in healthcare organizations. This would include HIT applications such as electronic medical records, e-prescribing, disease management applications, radiology applications, patient registration applications, etc....

address the following items:

1. Include the name of the vendor and all key information related to their product. If home-grown product, explain the design and key information related to the home-grown product.
2. What is the approximate cost in dollars and time to integrate these applications?
3. Who utilizes the product/application and how effective does the product work? (Will need to interview users of the application)
4. Is the application able to be integrated with any other systems within the healthcare organization? Explain.
5. Explain how the patients are impacted by the effective utilization of these key HIT applications.