Information technology and social sciences: how can health IT be used to support the health professional?
| Autor: | Peter Pokieser, Michaela Wagner-Menghin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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HRHIS
Health professionals business.industry General Neuroscience 010102 general mathematics Perspective (graphical) Information technology 01 natural sciences Clinical decision support system General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine History and Philosophy of Science Health care Medicine Health education 030212 general & internal medicine 0101 mathematics Social science business Health policy |
| Zdroj: | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1381:152-161 |
| ISSN: | 0077-8923 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/nyas.13220 |
| Popis: | Keeping up to date with the increasing amount of health-related knowledge and managing the increasing numbers of patients with more complex clinical problems is a challenge for healthcare professionals and healthcare systems. Health IT applications, such as electronic health records or decision-support systems, are meant to support both professionals and their support systems. However, for physicians using these applications, the applications often cause new problems, such as the impracticality of their use in clinical practice. This review adopts a social sciences perspective to understand these problems and derive suggestions for further development. Indeed, humans use tools to remediate the brain's weaknesses and enhance thinking. Available health IT tools have been shaped to fit administrative needs rather than physicians' needs. To increase the beneficial effect of health IT applications in health care, clinicians' style of thinking and their learning needs must be considered when designing and implementing such systems. New health IT tools must be shaped to fit health professionals' needs. To further ease the integration of new health IT tools into clinical practice, we must also consider the effects of implementing new tools on the wider social framework. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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