Health Information Technology Continues to Show Positive Effect on Medical Outcomes: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Health information technology (HIT) has been introduced into the health care industry since the 1960s when mainframes assisted with financial transactions, but questions remained about HIT's contribution to medical outcomes. Several systematic reviews since the 1990s have focused on this relationship. This review updates the literature. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this review was to analyze the current literature for the impact of HIT on medical outcomes. We hypothesized that there is a positive association between the adoption of HIT and medical outcomes. METHODS:We queried the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE) by PubMed databases for peer-reviewed publications in the last 5 years

SUBMITTER: Kruse CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5818676 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature