Implementation Of Healthcare Technologies Research Articles

Barriers and facilitators to health technology adoption by older adults with chronic diseases: an integrative systematic review

BackgroundIn recent years, healthcare systems have progressively adopted several technologies enhancing access to healthcare for older adults and support the delivery of efficient and effective care for this specific population. These technologies include both assistive technologies designed to maintain or improve the independence, social participation and functionality of older people at home, as well as health information technology developed to manage long-term conditions. Examples of such technologies include telehealth, wearable devices and mobile health. However, despite the great promise that health technology holds for promoting independent living among older people, its actual implementation remains challenging.MethodsThis study aimed to conduct an integrative systematic review of the research evidence on the factors that facilitate or hinder the adoption of different types of technology by older individuals with chronic diseases. For this purpose, four electronic databases (PsycArticles, Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed) were queried to search for indexed published studies. The methodological quality of the selected papers has been assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT).ResultsTwenty-nine articles were selected, including 6.213 adults aged 60 or older. The studies have been synthesised considering the types of technological interventions and chronic diseases, as well as the main barriers and facilitators in technology acceptance. The results revealed that the majority of the selected articles focused on comorbid conditions and the utilisation of telemedicine tools. With regard to hindering and facilitating factors, five main domains were identified: demographic and socioeconomic, health-related, dispositional, technology-related and social factors.ConclusionThe study results have practical implications not only for technology developers but also for all the social actors involved in the design and implementation of healthcare technologies, including formal and informal caregivers and policy stakeholders. These actors could use this work to enhance their understanding of the utilisation of technology by the ageing population. This review emphasises the factors that facilitate technology adoption and identifies barriers that impede it, with the ultimate goal of promoting health and independent living.

Fighting the Same Battles on a New Battleground: Embedding Technologies in a Virtual Care Environment.

The pandemic necessitated the rapid design, development and implementation of technologies to allow remote monitoring of COVID-19 patients at home. This study aimed to explore the environmental barriers and facilitators to the successful development and implementation of virtual care technologies in this fast-paced context. We interviewed eight staff at a virtual hospital in Australia. We found key facilitators to be a learning organizational culture and strong leadership support. Barriers included interoperability issues, legislative constraints and unrealistic clinician expectations. Also, we found that a combination of hot-desking and the lack of single sign on in the virtual care environment, was reported to create additional work for staff. Overall, despite this unique context, our findings are consistent with prior work examining design and implementation of healthcare technologies. The fast pace and high-pressure environment appeared to magnify previously reported barriers, but also cultivate and foster a learning culture.

Adoption of technological innovation in healthcare delivery: a psychological perspective for healthcare decision-makers

Technological advancements are vital for improving the capacity of the health system to deliver health and well-being benefits to individuals. Despite significant financial investments in technological innovations in healthcare, patients...

Healthcare professionals’ perspectives on development of assistive technology using the comprehensive assistive technology model

ABSTRACT The implementation of technology in healthcare shows promising results and provides new opportunities in rehabilitation. However, the adoption of technology into daily care is largely dependent on the acceptance rate of end-users. This study aims to gather information from healthcare professionals on the development of new assistive technology that match users’ needs using the Comprehensive Assistive Technology model. In total 27 healthcare professionals (12 occupational therapists, 8 physiotherapists, 3 nurses, 2 allied health directors, a physician and a speech therapist) attended one of four online focus group discussions. These focus group discussions were structured using a question guide based on three predefined scenarios. Recordings were transcribed and data was analyzed using a thematic analysis (NVivo). Major themes identified in this study were safety, price and usability. Healthcare professionals focused on both functional capabilities of the user, as well as behavioral aspects of usability and attitude toward technology. Furthermore, the need for assistive technology that were catered toward the limitations in activity and user experience, was highlighted extensively. Based on information gathered from healthcare professionals a user-centered approach in development of safe, low-cost devices that maximize both functional outcomes and user acceptance, could potentially increase the adoption of new technology in rehabilitation.

Development and implementation of healthcare technologies in the structural-functional model of public administration: bronchopulmonal dysplasia experience

The results obtained in the previous research and the author’s analysis of the ways and experience of solving similar organizational and methodological problems have identified the need for structural and logical systematization and their generalization for the sound development of structural-functional model (SFM) medical care for children 0-3 years old with bronchopulmonal dysplasia (BPD) and children of older age groups dysplastic dependent pathology of broncho-pulmonal system. The urgency of such development is conditioned by the existing socio-medical significance of the problem of health preservation, first of all prematurely born children with low and low body weight, high levels of their disability and morbidity. The aim of the study: to substantiate and develop a systematic complex of regulatory and legal support for SFM of medical care for children with BPD and dysplastic-dependent pathology of the bronchopulmonary system, in particular with regard to the introduction of health-improving measures. The author provides the legal and legal support for the components of the SFM assistance to children with BPD and dysplastic dependent pathology of broncho-pulmonal system, in particular regarding the improvement of health technologies in regional health systems. In order to improve this area of legislative and regulatory support, in 2014-2016 the directions of implementation of the legislative initiative were determined. The substantiated, submitted for consideration seven legislative acts of Ukraine, which improved the regulatory and legal support of the SFM components. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol. 21 No. 02 April’22 Page : 361-367

Design and implementation of health care technologies in the process of physical education of students of higher education institutions

The article reveals the features of the implementation of health technologies in the process of physical education of students of higher education institutions. It is determined that the design is aimed at changing the type of thinking of project participants in accordance with the needs of the modern labor market and globally is seen as a global trend in connection with increasing levels of production, training, life in general. The concept of health-preserving technologies of physical education based on a healthy lifestyle has been developed, which in accordance with the laws of morpho- functional development of the body and social expectations provides the formation of a young specialist, whose spiritual, physical, social and moral characteristics are adequate to new living conditions. The psychological and pedagogical conditions for the implementation of health-preserving technology in the process of physical education are determined. Socio-economic and socio- political reorganization of all spheres of Ukrainian society is inevitable and entails changes in the spiritual life of people, in the motives of their behavior, values, social attitudes. In this regard, the higher education system faces the problem of transition from the traditional pedagogical paradigm to innovative learning based on the development of a culture of designing various technologies and, above all, technologies for developing and promoting the health of students potential of the nation.
 Modern educational space is actively filled with pedagogical technologies, the multiplicity of which generates a variety of definitions of this concept, among which the thematically closest to us is the definition, pedagogical technology

Public health services: implementation of healthcare technologies

This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the factors that influence public health service. The main purpose of this research is to determine the expected indicators of pathogenic and sanogenic effects on significant risk factors of pathology among children. For achieving the research goal, the authors substantiated the models of final results for the modification of risk factors. Investigation of antenatal and genealogical factors in healthy and ill children groups was performed using a specially compiled expert assessment card and parents’ interviews. The systemic population modeling methods were applied to develop and substantiate population health management models (early diagnosis and primary prevention). Evaluation of the expected effectiveness of the N-factor program of primary prevention was carried out on a set of genealogical and antenatal factors. Conducted logical analysis of the methodology of quantitative and qualitative determination of health and the gathered experience in that respect were taken into account in developing population models of preventive effects. This study provides the identified priority directions for realizing the regional and population programs to implement them further. The authors presented the example of calculating the expected effectiveness of children’s health management by eliminating the investigated factors. The authors determine the priority directions for realizing the regional and population programs pathology based on the influence on the various elements to improve the public health services system. An example of calculating the expected effectiveness of children’s health management by eliminating these factors is given. The obtained results could be used to further research the issues associated with a prospective assessment of the program’s effectiveness in reducing the impact of antenatal and genealogical factors on children’s health.

Совершенствование медицинской помощи сельскому населению посредством управления бизнес-процессами

Meeting the needs of the rural population in all types of primary health care (pre-medical and general medical care), as well as specialized medical care, improving the quality of medical care for the rural population is an important public health problem that is difficult to solve and is of particular concern to government structures at all levels of government. The article presents an analysis of the literature on the use of business processes in modern healthcare, the main tasks of which are the creation and development of effective models for the provision of medical care that increase not only its accessibility and quality, but also the satisfaction of the population. As part of the activities of the modernization program for the implementation of information technology in healthcare, it is planned to create information resources and services that would allow, using this system tool, to move to a qualitatively new level of organization of industry management. It is noted that at present, at the level of management of the medical organization as a whole, and in the management of individual areas of its activity, the application of the process approach is becoming relevant, in which the medical organization can be considered as a separate business system, which is a related set of business processes, the ultimate goal which, undoubtedly, is the provision of quality medical services. It is shown that the development and modeling of business processes will increase the relevance of management information, will make it possible to focus on rationalizing cross-functional processes to significantly reduce time and / or costs, increase revenue, improve service quality and reduce risks, the information system allows you to simulate processes and carry them out further optimization. The analyzed works examine the experience of process-oriented management in medical organizations and its role in ensuring the improvement of the quality of medical services provided. In addition, the introduction of a process approach will allow the application of certain managerial decisions necessary in each specific situation, including in the field of medical services for the rural population.

Guiding Healthcare Technology Implementation

Guiding Healthcare Technology Implementation

Productive restructuring in the area of health and obstetric nursing

This reflection aimed to show the productive restructuring dimensions achieved in Brazilian healthcare, discussing the nexuses between this phenomenon and the work in obstetrical nursing. Its construction was based on articles about productive restructuring and health available in the Virtual Health Library, reflecting the consequences on this speciality's caregiving process. We observed that the productive restructuring in health care may be seen under the health system management and work organization viewpoints. Despite the negative impacts in the field of work, there has been an appreciation of living labor in obstetrics in a context favorable to changes in labor care, through the introduction of obstetrical nursing and implementation of health care technologies. We conclude that, besides the focus on living labor and soft technologies, such concepts comprise technological innovation, as they have changed and resignified the way of providing care, thus beginning the process of the inversion of the technological core in obstetrics.

Utilizing a Discourse-Based Understanding of Organizational Change to Explore the Introduction of National Electronic Health Records in England

The authors utilized pragmatic discursive analysis to consider their empirical study of the introduction of an electronic patient record system within hospitals based in a large region of the National Health Service in England. Their aim was to gain insight into the interplay between discourse and change as mediated by technology by exploring how a politically driven programme of change was translated during the introduction of a computer system intended to provide an electronic patient record. They identified contrasting discourses, determined by situated professional practices and stakeholder expectations that framed alternate understandings of the proposed systems implementation and related change processes. Over time, these contrasting local discourses in turn became increasingly dissonant with the national change programme policy rhetoric as the systems software failed to deliver anticipated benefits. The authors’ work emphasizes the mediating effect of technology in discourses of change. Limitations in systems functionality and a related lack of discourses of success slowed social momentum. Consequently, local and political articulations of change began to fragment. The authors suggest that understandings of change are experienced through different interpretive frameworks and mediated through the materiality of technology, highlighting the possibility of many and alternate meanings within any change process, and the considerable challenges in the development and implementation of information technology in healthcare.

Quantifying short run cost-effectiveness during a gradual implementation process

This paper examines the short run inefficiencies that arise during gradual implementation of a new cost-effective technology in healthcare. These inefficiencies arise when health gains associated with the new technology cannot be obtained immediately because the new technology does not yet supply all patients, and when there is overcapacity for the old technology in the short run because the supply of care is divided among two mutually exclusive technologies. Such efficiency losses are not taken into account in standard textbook cost-effectiveness analysis in which a steady state is presented where costs and effects are assumed to be unchanging over time. A model is constructed to quantify such short run inefficiencies as well as to inform the decision maker about the optimal implementation pattern for the new technology. The model operates by integrating the incremental net benefit equations for both the period of co-existence of mutually exclusive technologies and the period after complete substitution of the old technology. It takes into account the rate of implementation of the new technology, depreciation of capital of the old technology as well as the demand curves for both technologies. The model is applied to the real world case of converting from screen film to digital mammography in the Netherlands.

New technology continues to invade healthcare. What are the strategic implications/outcomes?

Healthcare technology continues to advance and be implemented in healthcare organizations. Nurse executives must strategically evaluate the effectiveness of each proposed system or device using a strategic planning process. Clinical information systems, computer-chip-based clinical monitoring devices, advanced Web-based applications with remote, wireless communication devices, clinical decision support software--all compete for capital and registered nurse salary dollars. The concept of clinical transformation is developed with new models of care delivery being supported by technology rather than driving care delivery. Senior nursing leadership's role in clinical transformation and healthcare technology implementation is developed. Proposed standards, expert group action, business and consumer groups, and legislation are reviewed as strategic drivers in the development of an electronic health record and healthcare technology. A matrix of advancing technology and strategic decision-making parameters are outlined.