TN004: Annotated Bibliography Conduct a search for recent (within the last 5 years) research focused on the application of clinical systems. The research should provide evidence to support the use of one type of clinical system to improve outcomes and/or efficiencies, such as “the use of personal health records or portals to support patients newly diagnosed with diabetes.†Develop an annotated bibliography that follows the organization of the Sample Annotated Bibliography resource provided in this Competency. Complete the annotated bibliography for each of the five peer-reviewed articles you selected for the one type of clinical system you selected. Be sure to include the following: An introduction of each peer-reviewed article selected. APA citation of each peer-reviewed article selected. Write a 6-page peer-reviewed article Summarize the study in each peer-reviewed article selected and write 1 page for each peer review. Analyze each peer-reviewed article selected. What are the benefits and limitations of each peer-reviewed article? Explain the improvement to outcomes, efficiencies, and lessons learned from the application of the clinical system that each peer-reviewed article described. Be specific and provide examples.
Clinical Systems
Clinical systems have played a crucial role in improving health service delivery. There is no doubt this system has a great capacity to streamline the health sector through the elimination of medical errors, reducing other associated costs, and overall improving the quality of the health services offered. Clinical systems are computerized systems that help collect, store, and analyze data—the systems help in supporting and managing data and policies. Clinical systems have brought a lot of benefits to the health sector. For example, eliminating tedious manual work increased service provision accuracy and made traceability easier and faster. Also, the high accuracy level helped reduce the instance of human errors. However, the clinical system may be associated with a few demerits, such as its associated cost in terms of installation and skilled manpower. Still, its benefits are so many that it makes the drawbacks insignificant. This research will consider using a personal health record system (EHR) and its implications in the health sector.
Annotated Bibliography
Atasoy, H., Greenwood, B. N., & McCullough, J. S. (2019). The digitization of patient care: a review of the effects of electronic health records on health care quality and utilization. Annual review of public health, 40, 487-500.
This article presents an annual review of public health on the digitization of patient information and how it improves the quality of the services offered. The researchers noted that adopting electronic health records had been a universal undertaking by health facilities and departments (Atasoy, Greenwood & McCullough, 2019). The authors present various factors that are believed to play a vital role in adopting this system. Some of these factors include financial costs, benefits, etc. This was achieved by overviewing various health disciplines, such as the information management system and medicine. The knowledge presented has helped the authors to propose future policies and research gaps.
The article enlightens the health stakeholder and other concerned organizations on what to consider stimulating faster adoption of the EHR. It gives a good foundation on how the clinical system started and how far it has reached, highlighting achievements and what ought to have been done differently (Atasoy, Greenwood & McCullough, 2019). However, the article has discussed only the benefits while ignoring some adverse effects resulting from the system.
The article clearly states that integrating technology is the best move due to the many benefits the health sector is experiencing. Overall, the EHR system has improved health outcomes and efficiencies by avoiding errors and providing accurate information. Thus, technology is the way to go through the digitalization of patient care due to its ability to improve the quality of services offered, as presented in the article.
Meltzer, E. C., Vorseth, K. S., Croghan, I. T., Chang, Y. H. H., Mead-Harvey, C., Johnston, L. A., … & Poole, K. G. (2022). Use of the electronic health record during clinical encounters: an experience survey. The Annals of Family Medicine, 20(4), 312-318.
The article presents research on EHR encounters in clinical practice. It assesses the communication skills of health staff and the attitude and experiences they show while using the system in the field (Meltzer et al., 2022). To achieve this, research based in the USA was done, where a survey was given to health practitioners online. The findings show that there was an effect on eye contact, which is said to affect practitioners but not patients. From this article, the practice suggested that they maintained less eye contact with the patient, focused less and listened less due to the use of the EHR. This shows that they considered using the new technology as an interruption of their work. However, from the patient side, they argued that the practitioner’s eye contact was sufficient, listened carefully, and gave them enough attention. This discrepancy shows that the patient has already perceived the use of EHR positively, unlike the practitioners.
From the article, we can say that the use of EHR may be affected by various factors, such as practitioners’ attitudes and experiences. This, in turn, affects their entry ability. Some benefit of this article is that it gives insight into what the health sector should do to increase the adoption and practical application of HER (Meltzer et al., 2022). The limitation of this research is that it did not discuss factors from the patient side that may affect the use of the system.
The factors or issues highlighted are essential because the technology world of health is growing every day, and identifying some weaknesses will help to have a robust system in the future. This gives a strong hope of better outcomes delivered efficiently.