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How EBP can be used for Technology Development

Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head,

Technical Operations, Pubrica

sales@pubrica.com

In-Brief

Technology development has made

enormous changes in all sectors.

Evidence-Based Practice which is a

promising one followed around the globe

for better treatment of patients has also

grabbed the effects of technological

development. Ease of accessing the

information, timely interventions,

reliability are the benefits made out of

technology development connected EBP.

Subject Keywords

Clinical expertise and research evidence,

clinical data and databases, Health

Informatics, technology development in

EBP, current trend for data management

I. INTRODUCTION

Evidence-Based Practice ensures

the connectivity between clinical expertise

and research evidence. As we go into the

information age of health care, digital

health technologies offer important

opportunities to optimize both Evidence-

based delivery and clinical literature

review. Despite their potential, the use of

such digital technologies in Evidence-

based practice and research faces major

data quality, privacy, and regulatory

concerns.

Health Informatics paves a better

way for managing and accessing clinical

data. This helps the healthcare

professionals to get the related information

at essential times. Internet of Things,

Machine learning, Deep learning, etc., are

now in the current trend for data

management and this helping the daily

updates on the evidence that are made out

of particular case subjects. The parallel

intervention of both has made tremendous

changes.

II. POTENTIAL USES OF DIGITAL

HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES IN

CLINICAL EBP

III. EBP IN HEALTH INFORMATICS

An increasing amount of clinical

data and databases creates more obstacles

for health professionals in reaching the

appropriate information. Therefore, a need

for efficient management of the

information is made. Updating to the

current technology becomes an essential

need.

More software, toolkits, journals,

research chapters, are digitalized. These

are the simplest forms of technology

development in the Healthcare sector.

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However, their more complex form of data

is consolidated and made available on the

Internet and in various other sources.

IV. QUALITY OF THE RESEARCH

PUBLICATION

There are plenty of sources

available these days and the most

exceptional one is the Internet where we

collect more data such ah articles, review

chapters, etc. But the quality of the content

containing the relevant information is the

most important thing to be considered

before proceeding to utilize the data. The

collected data must ensure validity,

compliance, aftermath effects.

V. MERITS

The data provided by professionals

from anywhere in the globe can be stored

and managed easily. Also, clinical data

management can be improvised under an

outstanding architecture and framework.

The quench for necessary technology to

tackle the new needs, help in the creation

of new technological innovations.

To put this simple, consider the

pregnancy kits; Based upon the evidence,

it is known that Human Chorionic

Gonadotropin (HCG) is released during

the pregnancy time of women. Identifying

this, to help them to detect the pregnancy,

pregnancy kits were made, which is seen

as an innovation in technology.

VI. CRITICISMS OF EBP

Though the qualitative research is

the most welcomed type of research. EBP

is criticized for relying more upon

quantitative research. Many professionals

around the globe question the definitions

of the term – Evidence in Evidence-Based

Practice. They argue that, based upon the

perception towards the problem, the

evidence can be both correct as well as

incorrect. Furthermore, clinical experience

is also given an equal part in creating the

evidence-based medicine, thus questioning

the certainty and biasness.

VII. CONCLUSION

The future aspects of technology

development bound with EBP are surely

predictable and sound essential. There

involved a lot of difficulties in

experimentation, collection of data from

various sources, and bringing them to the

right situation at right time. Apart from all,

it keeps on updating itself based on the

new situations that arise after new cases.

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