Developing and assessing health information technologies: opportunities and challenges

Introduction Internationally, billions of dollars have been invested in Health Information Technologies (HITs).1 In the UK, digitally enabled care forms a key pillar of the NHS long term plan, and responses to COVID-19 have been underpinned by data sharing and the use of new technologies. However, HITs represent a wide range of interventions used for storing, analysing or sharing electronic clinical data. They can be highly complex with wide-ranging impacts on health systems (eg, hospital-wide patient records (EPRs) or more focused interventions that are designed to solve specific clinical problems (eg, a dose checking algorithm). These variations mean that developing and assessing HITs can be challenging. There may also be disagreement about the main objectives for using/implementing digital interventions; their impacts can evolve unpredictably over time and there is a lack of agreement about how to define and measure whether HITs have been successful. These factors...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Research in Practice Source Type: research