Institute:Office of National Coordinator (ONC) Workforce Training Curriculum
Component:The Culture of Health Care
Unit:Sociotechnical Aspects: Clinicians and Technology
Lecture:Sociotechnical aspects of health care
Slide content:Technology in Medicine Continued 2 Clinicians need to constantly update their knowledge base Example: In the past, clinicians relied on textbooks and on other clinicians Now, reliance on an online database of medical literature Advances in technology require clinicians to learn new skills Example: Changes in cardiac pacemaker technology Invasive cardiologists need to update skills as technology advances 9
Slide notes:There has been an explosion in the amount of medical literature published in the second half of the twentieth century, and now a vast amount of information is available to clinicians. Much of this information is rapidly superseded by newer, more pertinent data, and because some of this new information improves patient care, clinicians need to constantly update their knowledge base. In the past, clinicians relied on textbooks and on consultations with other clinicians for meeting their information needs. Now theres an increasing reliance on the online database of medical literature that is easily accessible via the Internet. Advances in technology require clinicians to learn new skills. For example, cardiac pacemaker technology continues to change. Invasive cardiologists need to update their skills, in an iterative fashion, as advances in technology transform the products and procedures that they are trained to use. 9