title: Health Information and Global Health Inequity: Point-of-Care Knowledge Systems as a Foundation for Progress.
abstract: Point-of-care clinical knowledge systems play an increasingly important role in providing information for health care providers in high-resource settings, and there is evidence of strong interest among providers within low-resource settings. Unfortunately, systems developed for high-resource settings have a range of elements that make them suboptimal for low-resource settings. We discuss what a point-of-care clinical knowledge system designed for low-resource settings would ideally contain, and argue that such a system is worthy of further study and funding, towards the overarching goal of reducing global health inequity.
authors: Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University, Crosstown Building, 2nd floor, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. jameschudspeth@gmail.com.
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Hudspeth
authors: Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
authors: Michelle
authors: M
authors: Morse
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems / Q000639:trends*
keywords: global health; medical education-computer/web-based learning; medical informatics