Innovative use of the integrative review to evaluate evidence of technology transformation in healthcare.

ABSTRACT: Healthcare is in a period significant transformational activity through the accelerated adoption of healthcare technologies, new reimbursement systems that emphasize shared savings and care coordination, and the common place use of mobile technologies by patients, providers, and others. The complexity of healthcare creates barriers to transformational activity and has the potential to inhibit the desired paths toward change envisioned by policymakers. Methods for understanding how change is occurring within this complex environment are important to the evaluation of delivery system reform and the role of technology in healthcare transformation. This study examines the use on an integrative review methodology to evaluate the healthcare literature for evidence of technology transformation in

SUBMITTER: Phillips AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4684715 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature