Benefits of Information Technology to Healthcare in General The benefits of information technology and management being used in healthcare today is that previously buried data is now usable, provides information about problems, and [has the] ability to show patterns to a problem. There is proven improvement to communication between interdisciplinary teams in healthcare. The healthcare record of clients is easy stored and quickly retrieved when needed. In addition, the added cost savings and time related to recording of tasks performed is demonstrated with use of information technology at the bedside in healthcare (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). As for the profession of nursing, the increased use of information technology and management has enhanced nursing practice, encouraged nursing science development, improved documentation of care and time spent with patients, and allowed for the use of data for quality control and research that is complete. The increased use of information technology by nurses has led to the building of evidence-based knowledge for the profession of nursing (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).