title: Patient-Centred Coordinated Care in Times of Emerging Diseases and Epidemics. Contribution of the IMIA Working Group on Patient Safety.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In this paper the researchers describe how existing health information technologies (HIT) can be repurposed and new technologies can be innovated to provide patient-centered care to individuals affected by new and emerging diseases.
  
  
  METHODS
  The researchers conducted a focused review of the published literature describing how HIT can be used to support safe, patient-centred, coordinated care to patients who are affected by Ebola (an emerging disease).
  
  
  RESULTS
  New and emerging diseases present opportunities for repurposing existing technologies and for stimulating the development of new HIT innovation. Innovative technologies may be developed such as new software used for tracking patients during new or emerging disease outbreaks or by repurposing and extending existing technologies so they can be used to support patients, families and health professionals who may have been exposed to a disease. The paper describes the development of new technologies and the repurposing and extension of existing ones (such as electronic health records) using the most recent outbreak of Ebola as an example.
authors.affiliation: Elizabeth Borycki, Health Information Science, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria BC V8W 2Y2, Canada, E-Mail: emb@uvic.ca.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Borycki
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cummings
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Dexheimer
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kennebeck
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kushniruk
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kuziemsky
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saranto
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takeda
mesh_terms: D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000628:therapy*; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D058872:Epidemics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D061214:Patient Safety; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D018511:Systems Integration
keywords: Ebola virus; Patient safety; electronic health records; health information technology; technological innovations