Trends in Health Care Information Technology and Informatics

Background

Health care expenditures have amplified melodramatically during the past 50 years, mutually in total terms and as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS], n.d.). Expenditures in the U.S. health care segment computed over $2.7 trillion in 2011, increasing from up the $698.3 billion expended in 1980, increasing by a factor of 3.9. Health care expenditures in 2011 attributed for 17.9 percent of GDP, resulting in doubling of the shares from 1980 (CMS, n.d.). These expenditures have led to Quality Management for Health Care System to make available a structure to aid health organizations in communicating, monitoring, and incessantly advancing the whole HDS (James, n.d.). The vision for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Strategy is to optimize health outcomes by leading clinical quality improvement and health system transformation. This has resulted in and gives indication back to the very suggestion that a systematized system to achieve high quality care can be a front-runner to lowering health care costs (James, n.d.).