[telemedicine] U.K. Plans Study to Assess How Nurses Use IT

[Medical Informatics News]

The U.K.’s Department of Health has funded
a*two-year study which will look into how nurses use IT when making clinical decisions, as well as the level of
training and information available to them when using the systems.

The study will concentrate on*assessing how nurses interact with IT systems and the effect they have on
decision making, according to an article in e-Health Insider.


The survey started this month and is being run by the University of York’s
department of health sciences, along with*York’s science and technology studies unit, the University of
Southampton’s school of nursing and midwifery and Loughborough University’s department of information science.


The study will also track the use of PRODIGY, a reference
resource used by nurses and*physicians in clinical decision-making during patient consultation.



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