Healthcare Information Technology Department

I am making project on the topic Health information technology (HIT) and want to know some details about the department of Health information technology (HIT). Will you please provide me details about this HIT dept and tell me lists of companies?

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Health information technology (HIT) is information technology applied to health care.

It provides the complete framework to describe the comprehensive management of health information across computerized systems.

Healthcare Research and Quality broad and consistent utilization of HIT will:

Improve health care quality or effectiveness;
Increase health care productivity or efficiency;
Prevent medical errors and increase health care accuracy and procedural correctness;
Reduce health care costs;
Increase administrative efficiencies and healthcare work processes;
Decrease paperwork and unproductive or idle work time;
Extend real-time communications of health informatics among health care professionals; and
Expand access to affordable care

Interoperable HIT will improve individual patient care, but it will also bring many public health benefits including:

Early detection of infectious disease outbreaks around the country;
Improved tracking of chronic disease management; and
Evaluation of health care based on value enabled by the collection of de-identified price and quality information that can be compared.

Lists of some Healthcare Information Technology Companies:

McKesson Technology Solutions
Dell, Inc.
Cerner Corp.
Philips Healthcare
CareFusion Corp.
Cognizant
Siemens Healthcare
Epic Systems Corp.
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
Emdeon
CSC
Optum
EMC Corp.
Nuance Communications
Infosys | Infosys Public Services Inc.
Trizetto Corp.
Wolters Kluwer Health
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)
Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH)
3M Health Information Systems
Alere
Northrop Grumman Corp.
GE Healthcare
Oracle
IBM
MModal
TELUS Health Solutions
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.
athenahealth, Inc.
InterSystems
MedAssets, Inc.
NetApp, Inc.
Infor (Lawson)
SAS
HealthPort Technologies, LLC
eClinicalWorks
Merge Healthcare
Vitera Healthcare Solutions
The Advisory Board Company
NTT DATA, Inc.
Kronos Incorporated
Sunquest Information Systems, Inc.