Annotated Bibliography on Health Information Technology (Annotated Bibliography Sample)

Annotated Bibliography
Doctors and Patient use with Decision support systems - (green)Statement of Topic
Ahern, Wood, Lightowler, Finley, and Houston (2011) suggests that, “Substantial evidence demonstrates that patients today use health information technology (HIT) for a variety of purposes including to seek out relevant health information for themselves, friends or family.” Patients use health information technology to schedule appointments, request prescription refills, or message their provider using a secure messaging system (Ahern, Wood, Lightowler, Finley, Houston, 2011). This paper will seek to provide a perspective on how meaningful use of health IT and how specific tools can be associated with clinical support systems.
Ahern, D. K., Woods, S. S., Lightowler, M. C., Finley, S. W., & Houston, T. K. (2011). Promise of and potential for patient-facing technologies to enable meaningful use. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(5), S162-S172. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2011.01.005. Retrieved from /science/article/pii/S07493797110 0699
In this article, the authors establish themselves as capable physicians, as evidenced by the MD after each of their names. This article is especially relevant in the discussion of the various uses of certain technologies and the comparison of their benefits for patient use. One particularly useful quote reads “Once patients have access to their health information and these interventions are seamlessly woven into the care system, a variety of advanced capabilities can
become, in effect, a form of personalized medicine.
Spitzer, A. R., Ellsbury, D. L., Handler, D., & Clark, R. H. (2010). The pediatrix BabySteps® data warehouse and the pediatrix QualitySteps improvement project System—Tools for “Meaningful use” in continuous quality improvement. Clinics in Perinatology, 37(1), 49-70. doi:10.1016/j.clp.2010.01.016. Retrieved from http://rx9vh3hy4r.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88 2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF 8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Ao %2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+Pediatri +BabySteps%C2%AE+Data+Warehouse+and+the+Pediatrix+QualitySteps+Impr vement+Project+System%E2%80%94Tools+for+%E2%80%9CMeaningful+Use E2%80%9D+in+Continuous+Quality+Improvement&rft.jtitle=Clinics+in+Perina logy&rft.au=Spitzer%2C+Alan+R&rft.au=Ellsbury%2C+Dan+L&rft.au=Handl %2C+Darren&rft.au=Clark%2C+Reese+H&rft.date=2010&rft.pub=Elsevier+In &rft.issn=0095-5108&rft.eissn=1557 9840&rft.volume=37&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=49&rft.epage=70&rft_id=info:doi/10 016%2Fj.clp.2010.01.016&rft.externalDocID=doi_10_1016_j_clp_2010_01_016&p ramdict=en-US
The authors of this article establish their credibility by discussing their positions as MDS. The
article will prove invaluable by offering insight into a specific technology-- the Pediatrix Baby Steps program. An especially useful quote regarding an advantage of the system reads “Results can also be filtered using admission status - inborn, outborn, or combined.”
Winthereik, B. R., Irma Van Der Ploeg, & Berg, M. (2007). The electronic patient record as a meaningful audit tool: Accountability and autonomy in general practitioner work. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 32(1), 6-25. doi:10.1177/0162243906293884.Retrieved from  HYPERLINK "/stable/29733970?pq%09origsite=summon&seq=1" \l "page_scan_tab_contents"
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The authors of this article appear credible by the appearance of attending prestigious
universities, such as the Technical University of Denmark. Their article will be useful to the topic of specific tools and their adaptability by defining the patient record in the context of its various advantages and disadvantages, thus providing a potential counterargument. An especially useful quote states “auditing is simultaneously considered an undesirable form of surveillance - an institution comparable to Big Brother - and a direct stimulant to a positive form of competitiveness in the form of the desire to do things well within the practice.”
Jones. JB, Shah. NR, Bruce. CA, and Stewart. WF. (2011). Meaningful use in practice using patient-specific risk in electronic health record for shared decision making. Center for Health Research, Retrieved from  HYPERLINK "/pubmed/21521593"
/pubmed/21521593.
This article contributes information about quantitative risk formulas that are used to help increase patient quality of care by implementing QR into the primary care of a patient. Jones mentions that there were modifications to the Framingham Risk score into three areas patient education, risk-stratification, and guidance on choice of care options. This allowed the at-risk patient to be routinely identified for different variables such as alcohol, diabetes, and smokers. The patient’s data were recorded on a touch screen questionnaire and used it automatically used within the EHR (Jones et al, 2011). This article gives numerous examples of how meaningful use is helpful with improving patient’s quality of care.
David C. Classen, M.D., and David W. Bates, M.D. N Engl J Med 2011; 365:855-858September 1, 2011DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsb1103659.  HYPERLINK "/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb1103659" \l "t=article"
/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb1103659#t=article.
This article explains how meaningful use works and how to achieve the best outcome of capabilities with meaningful use. Classen mentions that most vendors that are using EHR’s are adding new functions and features to be able to meet requirements of meaningful use. It explains that one use of meaningful use is CPOE systems, which have decreased with fatal medication misuse. Classen also explains the criteria that is collected and reported. Classen gives a huge insight to how meaningful-use is and how it is beneficial to the healthcare industry.
 HYPERLINK "http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/search?author1=Robert+El-Kareh&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"
Robert El-Kareh.  HYPERLINK "http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/search?author1=Omar+Hasan&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"
Omar Hasan.  HYPERLINK "http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/search?author1=Gordon+D+Schiff&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"
Gordon D Schiff. 2013. Use of health information technology to reduce diagnostic errors. BMJ Qual Saf doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2013-001884.  HYPERLINK "http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/2013/08/07/bmjqs-2013-001884.full"
http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/2013/08/07/bmjqs-2013-001884.full.
This article gives a view of how health IT can help improve diagnostic studies. Diagnostic studies have had issues of not being accurate and accurately read. El-Kareh states that tools and algorithms were evaluated and some interventions had a clinical impact. He also mentions that to improve diagnostic studies meaningful use must come a long way to be able to improve the clinical errors that they have been having (El-Kareh,2013). Some of the measurable evaluations are the diagnostic process using electronic data, usability, using an evidence-based protocol in the clinical workflows, and feedback of the diagnostic studies performed. El-Kareh also gives examples of some of the tools that assisted with the diagnosis of patients is the “clinical prediction rules” which are scoring systems based on the patient’s symptoms (El-Kareh, 2013).
Paul A Estabrooks, Maureen Boyle, Karen M Emmons, Russell E Glasgow, Bradford W Hesse, Robert M Kaplan, Alexander H Krist, Richard P Moser, Martina V Taylor. 2012. Harmonized patient-reported data elements in the electronic health record: supporting meaningful use by primary care action on health behaviors and key psychosocial factors.
 HYPERLINK "http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000576%20575-582"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000576 575-582.
This article contains information on the psychological issues and health behaviors and how EHR can help physicians diagnose the symptoms and problems that the patients are having. Using the meaningful use criteria, they could come up with patient- reported data elements for the EHR in the primary care settings. “The focus of HITECH is on promoting the exchange and meaningful use of health information to improve population health, reduce healthcare costs, and empower individuals to improve their health through the use of health information technology” (Estabrooks, 2012). Successful stages can help improve patient safety and quality. Estabrooks also mentions that using a behavioral perspective interventions improved patient quality and increased positive outcomes.
"Meaningful Use Definition & Objectives." 2015. HealthIT. Retrieved from  HYPERLINK "/providers-professionals/meaningful-use-definition-objectives"
/providers-professionals/meaningful-use-definition-objectives
This website will provide the group with a list of the uses of health information technology. It provides four major meaningful uses defined. Followed by these uses are the objectives and goals that health information technology hopes to result in. This article will allow the group to better summarize and define health information technology.
Butin et al. "The Benefits Of Health Information Technology: A Review Of The Recent Literature Shows Predominantly Positive Results." Health Affairs. Retrieved from  HYPERLINK "http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/30/3/464.full"
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/30/3/464.full
Health information technology has many effects within health care facilities. This article covers the effects of health information techn...