Integrating health information technology into clinical guidelines

The current use of Health Information Technology (HIT) within healthcare practice is limited. Clinical guidelines have been developed to bring research based evidence into practice. However, there is no defining step during the development process that explores the use of HIT and how it can benefit the patient, staff and delivery of care process. This paper presents a review of current research on the integration of HIT into clinical guidelines, a methodology for updating and altering the clinical guideline development process to include exploration of HIT and an updated version of the Patient Journey Modeling Architecture (PaJMa) to include a technology layer to assist in visually depicting how HIT can benefit healthcare.