Describe Information Technology.

(Background info on 3HS-The Helping Hands Hospital System (3HS) is a notional, for profit managed care consortium that has approximately 9.5 million health plan members, 160,000 employees, 18,000 physicians, 48,000 nurses, 29 Medical Centers and 500 other medical facilities across the United States. Please use this concept health care system for future reference and scenarios in this course as you will be able to get referential data from similarly sized organizations such as the DoD, VA, or Kaiser Permanente.)3HS executives want to upgrade their homegrown EHR to a commercial, off the shelf (COTS) system that is meaningful use (MU) certified. As the chief procurement officer for the system, the vice president for support services has been designated as the lead for this project. She has asked you for guidance in understanding MU and its implications. Provide a white paper to aid in decision making.In informal conversation, the support services vice president has indicated she wishes to better understand Meaningful Use Certified EHR Technology, the applicable statutes and regulations and why they were enacted, and the benefits of a MU Certified EHR Technology system, including incentives and penalties if the current system was to remain in place. The decision will also be heavily influenced by factors such as average costs and an average time to make such an upgrade, so examples from other health systems such as Kaiser Permanente, DoD, or VA would be valuable. Be sure to furnish evidence to support any statements and quantify evidence with numeric figures, not generalities like enormous, huge, many, most, increased, decreased, high costs, or lower costs.