The spread of coronavirus infection was the factor, which defined the research orientation of the global medical community in 2019 and 2020. More specifically, knowledge of the methods for clinical management optimization during the pandemic has proved to be of great importance for scholars (Reeves et al., 2020). They attempted to evaluate technological support and its instruments, which can be helpful for this purpose in the context of healthcare facilities (Reeves et al., 2020). The commonly proposed measures included the development of electronic health record tools to address the need to increase the efficiency of the hospital workers’ activity (Reeves et al., 2020). In this way, the researchers demonstrated their concern with the insufficiency of the currently implemented technology in the field. Thereby they emphasized the necessity to readjust its use following the newly emerging circumstances.
The suggested methods for finding a solution to the problem of addressing clinical tasks were based on the further development of EHR-based instruments. Nevertheless, it is still unclear which tools would be more efficient in terms of maintaining a high quality of provided medical services to patients with Covid-19. Their use for screening procedures, laboratory testing, making critical decisions, reports, and patient-facing technology are among the most popular suggestions (Reeves et al., 2020). Nevertheless, these interventions’ effectiveness when applied to the case of coronavirus infection management is still not completely understood. The scholars claim that electronic health records and similar technological measures are essential for dealing with the existing challenges (Reeves et al., 2020). To ensure the correspondence of these instruments to the needs of hospitals, it is vital to assess their impact on the work of medical facilities. Therefore, further research on particular methods and their practical implementation are needed.
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Reeves, J. J., Hollandsworth, H. M., Torriani, F. J., Taplitz, R., Abeles, S., Tai-Seale, M., Millen, M., Clay, B. J., & Longhurst, C. A. (2020). Rapid response to COVID-19: Health informatics support for outbreak management in an academic health system. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 27(6), 853-859. Web.