Title :
Mobile Access for Patient Centered Care: The Challenges of Activating Knowledge through Health Information Technology
Author :
Qureshi, Sajda ; Noteboom, Cherie ; Schumaker, Alice M.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA
Abstract :
With the growing use of mobile technology to access health information, patients are being empowered in their healthcare choices. While specific mobile applications are becoming available for patients to manage their own care, most treatment processes support healthcare professionals and offer little support for patient centered care. In order to address this problem, federal regulations require providers to become "meaningful users" of Health Information Technology (HIT) in an effort to encourage patient centered care through the assessment of health outcomes. This paper contends that addressing meaningful use practices for patient centered care involves the activation of knowledge, which means bringing knowledge into action. A survey of 73 health care providers sought to discover how their knowledge activation affects patient centered care. The results suggest that current HIT usage by providers has limited knowledge activation. The contribution of this research is in that it identifies areas that would to bring about improvements in patient centered care and a model that shows how mobile access to patient records could potentially streamline the patient care process.
Keywords :
health care; knowledge management; medical information systems; mobile computing; patient care; HIT usage; federal regulations; health care providers; health information; health information technology; healthcare professionals; knowledge activation; mobile access; mobile applications; mobile technology; patient centered care; patient records; Electronic medical records; Encoding; Hospitals; Information technology; Medical diagnostic imaging; Mobile communication; Electronic Health Records (EHR); Knowledge Activation; Meaningful Use; Mobile Patient Record System; Patient Centered Care; Patient Health Record (PHR);
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences (HICSS), 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kauai, HI
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2015.389