A scoping review of Australian allied health research in ehealth

Autor: Natalie Pearce, Teresa Iacono, Kellie Stagg, Alana Hulme Chambers
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
Speech-Language Pathology
020205 medical informatics
Service delivery framework
Allied Health Personnel
02 engineering and technology
Telehealth
Rural Health
Allied health
0302 clinical medicine
Health care
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Podiatry
Physiotherapy
health care economics and organizations
Uncategorized
Clinical Trials as Topic
Rural health
Health Policy
Health services research
Telemedicine
Exercise Therapy
Health Services Research
Queensland
Speech pathology
Research Article
Social Work
Telepractice
Universities
Dietetics
Attitude of Health Personnel
education
CINAHL
Occupational therapy
03 medical and health sciences
Nursing
Occupational Therapists
Telecare
eHealth
Humans
Physical Therapy Modalities
Telerehabilitation
business.industry
Australia
Exercise physiology
Ehealth
business
Delivery of Health Care
Zdroj: BMC Health Services Research
DOI: 10.26181/19729885
Popis: Background Uptake of e-health, the use of information communication technologies (ICT) for health service delivery, in allied health appears to be lagging behind other health care areas, despite offering the potential to address problems with service access by rural and remote Australians. The aim of the study was to conduct a scoping review of studies into the application of or attitudes towards ehealth amongst allied health professionals conducted in Australia. Methods Studies meeting inclusion criteria published from January 2004 to June 2015 were reviewed. Professions included were audiology, dietetics, exercise physiology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, social work, and speech pathology. Terms for these professions and forms of ehealth were combined in databases of CINAHL (EBSCO), Cochrane Library, PsycINFO (1806 – Ovid), MEDLINE (Ovid) and AMED (Ovid). Results Forty-four studies meeting inclusion criteria were summarised. They were either trials of aspects of ehealth service delivery, or clinician and/or client use of and attitudes towards ehealth. Trials of ehealth were largely from two research groups located at the Universities of Sydney and Queensland; most involved speech pathology and physiotherapy. Assessments through ehealth and intervention outcomes through ehealth were comparable with face-to-face delivery. Clinicians used ICT mostly for managing their work and for professional development, but were reticent about its use in service delivery, which contrasted with the more positive attitudes and experiences of clients. Conclusion The potential of ehealth to address allied health needs of Australians living in rural and remote Australia appears unrealised. Clinicians may need to embrace ehealth as a means to radicalise practice, rather than replicate existing practices through a different mode of delivery. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12913-016-1791-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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