在种族和族裔服务不足社区中健康信息技术的使用。
Use of health information technology among racial and ethnic underserved communities.
作者信息
Christopher Gibbons Michael
机构信息
Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, MD, USA.
出版信息
Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2011 Jan 1;8(Winter):1f.
This article examines the potential role of health IT in addressing healthcare disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations. An overview of health IT utilization among healthcare providers notes certain characteristics that may disproportionately affect minority populations. Current and emerging health IT use among racial and ethnic minority populations is examined, highlighting areas in which technology use in these populations differs from that of nonminority populations and emphasizing the importance of new social media applications in healthcare education and delivery. Following a discussion of adoption and utilization barriers for providers as well as for patients and caregivers, specific opportunities to address healthcare disparities through health IT use are identified at the provider, patient/caregiver, and healthcare system levels. The article identifies several technical, practical, and human challenges to health IT adoption and stresses the need for the healthcare system to embrace the full spectrum of emerging health IT opportunities to address healthcare disparities.
本文探讨了健康信息技术在解决种族和少数族裔人群医疗保健差异方面的潜在作用。对医疗保健提供者使用健康信息技术的概述指出了某些可能对少数族裔人群产生不成比例影响的特征。研究了种族和少数族裔人群当前及新兴的健康信息技术使用情况，突出了这些人群在技术使用方面与非少数族裔人群不同的领域，并强调了新社交媒体应用在医疗保健教育和服务提供中的重要性。在讨论了提供者以及患者和护理人员采用和使用健康信息技术的障碍之后，确定了在提供者、患者/护理人员和医疗保健系统层面通过使用健康信息技术解决医疗保健差异的具体机会。本文指出了健康信息技术采用面临的若干技术、实践和人为挑战，并强调医疗保健系统需要充分利用新兴健康信息技术的各种机会来解决医疗保健差异问题。
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