You may select two of the areas listed above and link them to your current nursing practice. Example: How does information technology link to the interrelationship of quality care, health care teams and finances?

1. Determine how they are linked together. (quality, teams and finances)
2. Once you determine how they are linked define how information technology supports the linkage.
3. Your articles should help you support the linkage.
4. If you cannot determine the linkage, your articles should support this.

An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. For the purpose of this assignment, we will only be using journal articles. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph: the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the article.

Objectives

Define the interrelationship among quality care, health care teams, technology, and finances in contemporary work environments.

Demonstrate the ability to think and act critically and creatively about nursing practice issues.

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Introduction

This is an annotated bibliography that assesses how IT links to the interrelationship of quality care, health care teams and finances. The sources used within this article are all related to the topic of discussion and help shed light from academic sources on the same.

Annotated Bibliography

Allen, A., et al. (2014). Making It Local: Beacon Communities Use Health Information Technology to Optimize Care Management. Population Health Management, 17(3), 149-158.

This article looks at the impact of local context on the health information technology and delivery of quality services to local communities that are being funded to improve the quality of care through applying health-IT infrastructure. The delivery of quality health services largely depends on the local context of health care provision, which includes the available health care infrastructure, the community partnerships and their influences on the priorities of a given community. The article also describes the challenges faced in the implementation of health-IT to optimize care management. The care management tasks that each Beacon community engaged in included patient stratification, identification and prioritization.

The authors of this article are professionals who have worked with the six Beacon communities involved in the study and have wide experience in the implementation of health-IT programs within community healthcare settings. The article’s intended audience is professionals who work in community healthcare settings where health-IT infrastructure is implemented in order to improve the delivery of healthcare services to the communities involved (DeSalvo, Dinkler & Stevens, 2015). The article contributes to my topic of study, which is bedside nursing and allows me to infer how health-IT can be applied in a community setting to enhance the delivery of bedside nursing care to deserving patients within the community.

I selected this article because it explains the use of health-IT within a large community setting where bedside nursing is not much practiced. In most cases bedside nursing is practiced in a home-based setting and not on a community level. However, this article allows me to examine how the practice of bedside nursing can be applied to a community setting using health-IT systems that enhance the delivery of healthcare services to patients (van Gurp, van Selm, van Leeuwen, Vissers & Hasselaar, 2016). This is an area that requires further study in order to establish parameters for the delivery of bedside healthcare services within the larger scope of a community.