The impact of health information technology on the management and follow-up of test results - a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the impact of health information technology (IT) systems on clinicians' work practices and patient engagement in the management and follow-up of test results.

Materials and methods

A search for studies reporting health IT systems and clinician test results management was conducted in the following databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, ProQuest, and Scopus from January 1999 to June 2018. Test results follow-up was defined as provider follow-up of results for tests that were sent to the laboratory and radiology services for processing or analysis.

Results

There are some findings from controlled studies showing that health IT can improve the proportion of tests followed-up (15 percentage point change) and increase phy

SUBMITTER: Georgiou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6562156 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature