Our lives have been greatly revolutionized by technology. The United States healthcare sector is significantly slow when subjected to the adoption of a change , and hence the deployment of information technology is not an exception in this sector (Rouleau et al . , 2017) . The deployment of information technology in the healthcare sector has both positive and negative impacts on overall healthcare delivery. Such impacts are outlined below.

Given that most people do not reside within about thirty miles of a health center, some people consume a lot of time traveling to seek medical attention , even when their concern is a minor health complication. IT through telemedicine healthcare has given a solution to this problem where millions of patients are able to access convenient and affordable healthcare (Rouleau et al . , 2017) .