NURS 6051 LITERATURE REVIEW: THE USE OF CLINICAL SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES AND EFFICIENCIES
NURS 6051 LITERATURE REVIEW: THE USE OF CLINICAL SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES AND EFFICIENCIES
Nurse informaticists and healthcare leaders provide the human resource applications to clinical and medical services. The nature of healthcare has primarily relied on the retention of information and intelligence by way of medical knowledge and expertise. Early comprehension of herbal medicine and human anatomy paved the way for modern medicine. However, the knowledge base of clinical services has also been entrenched in personal perspectives and values. These can occasionally limit the scope and objectivity of medicine, as has been evidenced throughout history.
The advancement in technology in recent years has allowed for objective science to prevail over subjective values and beliefs influencing modern medicine. As clinical services and modern medicine became more standardized, new technology was researched and applied to areas where technological advancements were needed. For example, X-rays evolved in order to evaluate bone structure and health. This technological advancement came with significant consequences in the past, as X-rays are extremely harmful to human beings. Luckily, the modern introduction of new technology only appears in healthcare settings after careful and significant research.
The purpose of this literature review is to identify modern applications of clinical systems in healthcare settings. The research will provide evidence to support the use of one type of clinical system to improve outcomes as well as efficiencies within modern uses of clinical systems within the healthcare setting for certain applications. The peer-reviewed research articles include modern applications within the past five years as well as applications of clinical systems internationally. Developing countries will also be considered for potential applications of modern clinical systems.
Clinical Information Systems
The first study that will be explored in this literature review gives an overview of recent research trends in clinical information systems, summarizing the best papers published in 2019 (Hackl & Hoerbst, 2020). The article serves as its own review of literature discussing clinical information systems. These systems now involve the use of modern technology, which is explored heavily within the trends examined in the study. The primary application of clinical information systems discussed in this study is the development and implementation of electronic health records (Hackl & Hoerbst, 2020).
The paper actively examines 957 journals from the Top-15 journals of 2019. Topics such as health communication, computers, informatics, and nursing, as well as the advancement of vaccine and other medical systems are highlighted within the study (Hackl & Hoerbst, 2020). These papers are said to provide important information regarding clinical information systems that can be derived from electronic health records and the digital landscape of health communication technologies. The study organizes the best papers of 2019 into a cluster to demonstrate which segment of clinical information systems are the most developed and streamlined to this day.
The study demonstrates that the most important articles regarding trends in clinical information systems involve reinforcing electronic health records and digital medical databases. It is evidenced from the study that cybersecurity is increasingly critical and should be tackled accordingly, as seen from the most integral papers investigating healthcare employees’ susceptibility to phishing attacks (Hackl & Hoerbst, 2020). As healthcare databases continue to migrate to the digital ecosystem, the security of private data must be protected from the new potential dangers of cybercrime.
Technology continues to be an indispensable part of the current innovative practice. In health care settings, the effectiveness of technology is demonstrated through its role in optimizing health outcomes and reducing inefficiencies (Malik et al., 2021). As a result, nurse informaticists and other health care professionals should continue exploring effective clinical systems and integrate them into patient care to improve health outcomes. Patient portals are among the widely used clinical systems for patients and health care practitioners. Nursing and health care research has explored its role in detail and provides different findings that underline their importance as a health care technology. The purpose of this paper is to annotate research on the use of patient portals in improving outcomes and efficiencies.
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