Health Information and Global Health Inequity: Point-of-Care Knowledge Systems as a Foundation for Progress.
J Gen Intern Med 2017;
32:572-575. [PMID:
27798781 PMCID:
PMC5400756 DOI:
10.1007/s11606-016-3909-6]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2016] [Revised: 09/27/2016] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Abstract
Point-of-care clinical knowledge systems play an increasingly important role in providing information for health care providers in high-resource settings, and there is evidence of strong interest among providers within low-resource settings. Unfortunately, systems developed for high-resource settings have a range of elements that make them suboptimal for low-resource settings. We discuss what a point-of-care clinical knowledge system designed for low-resource settings would ideally contain, and argue that such a system is worthy of further study and funding, towards the overarching goal of reducing global health inequity.
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