Technology Solutions for Human Services

Running Head : Human Services

Technology Solutions for Human Services

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University Name The health services that are provided to the society are extremely important for a number of reasons . All the individuals and families living in that society depend on these services to a great deal . The services provided in this category all vary in nature and size . However each one is very important to the society and all the possible barriers which could slow down or make the services less efficient should be eliminated from

the pictures (Microsoft ,2006 . For this , we need to be aware of the possible barriers that hinder effective health care services . This will outline the 3 possible barriers to services planning , funding , or empowerment in the health care sector . Towards the end , it will outline certain applications of technology that may be helpful for organizations in the health service sector

The first barrier which causes problems for any organization is poor information sharing . This will affect any group that has more than 2 people . Information is very valuable , especially the critical information within a hospital . People do not realize the importance of it because there is so much of it . In reality , having so much information is the problem because people fail to identify information that they should be aware of . As a result , the information does not reach the right people at the right time and this affects decision making , planning , funding , empowerment and every other aspects of the human service sector . In to emphasize on the need for effective information sharing , fields like information management are coming up which help the people make better use of information . In our case of health care service sector , information systems can be made use of Imagine a situation where a life and death decision has to be made by doctors but because the information was not available at the right time the situation can turn out to be pretty ugly . These systems are basically softwares developed by companies like Microsoft that help organize the information better . The information does not get lost and can be retrieved at any time quickly . This will enable the information to be with the person who needs it at the right time . Imagine how much necessary information that the doctors and other health care officials have with them . This includes the patient 's records , vaccination and immunization etc (Microsoft ,2006 . Microsoft and other software companies have developed various information systems that help manage hospital information better . These include databases like Microsoft Access or Oracle

Another barrier that I will be discussing is providing good quality service at lower cost . This has been a problem for countries all over the world . The health care services are too expensive and if they are not , they quality only makes the patient worse . This is not just it . The more pressing problem is that the cost of medicine and services is constantly increasing which is worrying the general...