Electronic Resources In Health Care Essay

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Electronic resources are part of clinical practice. Clinicians demand user-friendly, well-functioning information systems to support their day-to-day clinical practices based on research evidence practice guidelines (Lee et al., 2018). To maintain the continuity of care, information sharing is an essential component of healthcare service. In this essay, the author has followed the admission process and has identified the different electronic resources in use, the shared information, and further explored the potential benefits and limitations of electronic resources to assist health professionals in their professional work. In terms of admission procedure in our facility, two streams exist - public or private stream. Once referred to the hospital, …show more content…

Typically, duplication of health information is commonly observed theme in the facility during the routine admission procedure attended by multidisciplinary team members (Coiera, 2015). Other issue is, due to the complexity of information flow, their health information may be shared without their informed consent and knowledge. Although there are governing practice standards for privacy and confidentiality exists, each clinician may have different attitude (Hammoudi, Ismaile, and Abu, …show more content…

With the benefit of an easy access without the geographical limitations, electronic resources may help spread the information faster by enhancing the learning experience for clinicians (Tlakula and Fombad, 2017). Health information and services need to be tailored for the health service users to assist their decision-making; and improving health literacy of service users may lead to better management of their chronic conditions (Shi et al., 2017; Slade,

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