Question

Health Informatics: Technology to support Evidence Based Practice. What are:

Literature search strategies and tools

Technology initiatives and EBP

Applications to support research and EBP

Answer 1

Technology to support Evidence Based Practice.

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a systematic method of finding, reviewing, and using the best available evidence for clinical judgement that this evidence was actively derived from clinical studies. Information technology refers to any technology that uses for information acquisition, storage , processing, transmission and presentation. This technology in EBM resulted in the publication, evaluation and critique of the medical research evidence.

Using computer technology enables highly successful evidentiary medicine processes. But the Internet has easy access to links to information and advanced clinical guidance based on evidence, which can be used to enhance decision-making and promote knowledge exchange and dissemination. Any technology it can also have a beneficial effect in developing EBM to promote the compilation, storage , processing and retrieval of information for health care workers. Generally speaking, EBM is a fantasy without the use of technology and policymakers should be serious about using more IT.

What are:

Literature search strategies and tools Technology initiatives and EBP

· • Organized scanning of literature is regarded as a vital component of the systematic review process. It requires a systematic search for studies, and aims for a straightforward research identification report, leaving readers focused about what has been done to identify studies, and how the analysis results are found in the relevant data.

· • Information specialists and analysis teams tend to be operating from a common, implicit literature search model. It is unclear how this tacit model developed and evolved, and it was not directly discussed before.

· • The aim of this review is to establish if a common literature search process model can be established through systematic review guidance documents and, if so, how that process is described in the guidance and supported by published studies.

· • A study of two forms of literature: guidelines and reported research. It listed nine guidance documents including: Cochrane and Campbell Handbooks. Published studies were identified through 'pearl rising,' citation chasing, a PubMed search using the systematic review methods filter, and the knowledge of the authors' subject.

· • The appropriate sections were then read and re-read within each Guidance Document to determine key methodological levels. It described and specified methodological phases. This data was checked to distinguish specific guidance agreements and areas within the guidance documents. Consensus was used through several guidance documents to inform selection of 'main stages' .

· • Eight main stages have been established relating specifically to the systematic review examination of literature. They were: who should search literature, goals and intent of searching literature, planning, search strategy, searching databases, additional searching, managing references and documenting the search process. Eight key stages of the literature search process were described in the systematic reviews. In systematic reviews, these main stages are regularly stated in the nine guidance papers, indicating consensus on the key stages of literature searching, and thus the literature search process as a whole.

· • The Internet and other new information technology have brought significant change to many aspects of the American economy, including healthcare. Providers and patients now practically have an array of knowledge at their fingertips. The work of two organisations that have developed Their systems to help patients and clinicians find the knowledge that is most commonly used

· • The Health Evidence Center (CHE) states that overloading information makes it impossible for health care professionals to translate evidence into practise quickly. For example, sources of knowledge such as journals each have their own way of organising and presenting knowledge which is not easily adapted to clinical practice . Over the last decade, CHE has gained a range of insights into technology after collaborating with several organisations and professional associations, which can act as a gateway that connects better knowledge to improved health outcomes. Key considerations include how to conveniently support knowledge, and the capacity to differentiate and incorporate it into practise.

· • The and health-care information climate is critical for customers who are increasingly controlling their own health insurance and health records. Just as increasing Internet access in sectors such as banking, retail and travel has facilitated a more consumer-driven approach, customers are being asked to take a more active position in their own health care. The vested interest of customers in improving health outcomes would undoubtedly lead to an increasing position as a disruptive agent of health care change — by seeking better knowledge and resources to support their health decisions.

Applications to support research and EBP

Better patient results come with the implementation of EBP, which will decrease demand for healthcare services. So companies in the healthcare sector will reduce expenditures. Outdated methods , for example, may have included materials , equipment or items that are no longer needed for certain procedures or techniques.