Mutschler E
School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.
Health Soc Work. 1990 Aug;15(3):191-6. doi: 10.1093/hsw/15.3.191.
Social workers' contributions to preventive medicine; discharge planning; and effective integration of hospital, family, and community resources are becoming increasingly important within the changing context of health care delivery. Information technology can be a powerful tool for developing efficient, accurate, and comprehensive patient records. In spite of the potential that information technology offers health care social workers, the actual use of computerized patient data has been limited and slow to develop. This article describes the development of a prototype information system that supports the diverse tasks of health care social workers in ambulatory care, shows how a shared computerized database can improve coordination of patient care among multiple health care disciplines, and addresses emerging issues as a growing number of social workers in health care use computerized information systems.
社会工作者对预防医学、出院计划以及医院、家庭和社区资源的有效整合在不断变化的医疗保健服务背景下正变得愈发重要。信息技术可以成为开发高效、准确和全面的患者记录的有力工具。尽管信息技术为医疗保健社会工作者提供了潜力，但计算机化患者数据的实际使用一直有限且发展缓慢。本文描述了一个原型信息系统的开发，该系统支持门诊护理中医疗保健社会工作者的各种任务，展示了共享的计算机化数据库如何改善多个医疗保健学科之间的患者护理协调，并探讨了随着越来越多的医疗保健社会工作者使用计算机化信息系统而出现的新问题。
