Healthcare Assignment: PICO Question and Life Cycle Analysis

This report delves into the significance of life cycle factors within the healthcare sector, focusing on the application of health information technology. The assignment begins with an introduction highlighting improvements in healthcare through data collection and technological advancements, followed by a PICO question examining how life cycle factors in health information systems contribute to efficient resource distribution. The discussion covers the importance of Health Technology Assessment in evaluating the direct and indirect effects of health technologies, and how it aids in effective implementation. It emphasizes the role of life cycle aspects in providing healthcare professionals with the necessary data analysis for improved care, including the effective use of big data. The report concludes that the application of life cycle aspects has enabled healthcare professionals to better manage and distribute resources, supported by examples and references to relevant research.

Running head: HEALHCARE ASSIGNMENT
VALUE OF LIFE CYCLE
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Introduction
Growth and development in the health care facilities and interventions has improved
the health care sector in multiple aspects, especially in terms of data collection and
preservation (Villares et al., 2016). Through these years the health care facilities has
improved the care process through the introduction of linear technologies and implement of
different stakeholder aspects (Lingg, 2016). These aspects are associated with the innovators,
regulators, manufacturer, health technological assessors, health care providers, patients and
the health care professionals, reimbursement bodies and others (Mann & Davenport, 2016).
Application of these aspects has provided the health care facilities with abilities so that the
improper distribution of the care system and their inefficient distribution of resources could
be managed.
In this paper, a PICO question associated with the care process and the aspects
associated with those questions would be discussed in this paper.
PICO question
The PICO question selected for this paper would be associated with the importance of
the life cycle associated aspects associated with health care information technology and the
way these helps in the improvement of the health care condition of the patients involved in
this paper.
Problem Intervention Comparison Outcome
The life cycle factor
associated with
health information
Helps to equal
distribution of
resources
Than other aspects Within a specific
time frame

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The question: Does the application of life cycle factors associated with the health
information system helps the health care professionals to equally distribute the
resources associated with health care within a specific timeframe, compared to their
facilities?
Discussion
While discussing the benefits o the life cycle aspects associated with this factor, the
primary aspect which should be analysed effectively is the Health Technology Assessment
so that the benefits associated with the life cycle could be understood. As per Gutiérrez-
Ibarluzea, Chiumente and Dauben (2017), the Health Technology Assessment is associated
with the discussion of the direct and indirect effect of the process and discusses its
implementation in the intentional and unintentional aspects so that the accurate distribution of
the process could be identified and developed for the usage in the care process. As per Lingg
(2016) the discussion of Health Technology Assessment is done when the health care
professionals and facilities are unable to understand the aspects they need to be followed for
the application of efficiency, safety, effectiveness and efficiency could be understood and
implemented in the care processes. Therefore, with application of this approach it has been
observed that every organisation is able to implement constructive approach in the health care
process. In this process the importance of life cycle of the health care information technology
could not be denied as these help the care professionals with a detailed analysis of the process
so that they develop abilities to provide every community included in the process with
abilities so that they could provide effective resources for the application in the current health
care system (Villares et al., 2016). There are multiple steps such as finding the data, capturing
the data, normalise the data, aggregating the data and understanding the data with application
of these data in the care process. Hence, these would be helpful for the health care
professionals to implement effective and accurate health care professionals for its effective

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and resourceful application. As per Di Cesare et al. (2018), there are multiple aspects
associated with the application of these aspects in the technological and human capital which
helps the care facilities to implement this life cycle which would help the care professionals
with accurate and appropriate aspects which would help the care professionals to distribute
the extensive, expensive and secured big data for the growth and improvement of the care
process. besides this, the associated of life cycle aspects with that of the value based care
system has also been found which helps the care professionals associated with a care process
with aggregation of the data (Mann & Davenport, 2016). In this aspect, it should be
mentioned that there are multiple aspects which helps the care professionals to collect the
data and use them for the development of diagnosis process. Therefore, it has been seen that
application of these health care data could be used for the quality development and cost
reduction aspects so that these could be implemented in the health care processes (Lingg,
2017).
Conclusion
Therefore, in conclusion it could be mentioned that application of life cycle aspects
associated with health care information data has provided the care professionals with the
ability so that they could use them for the development and implementation of the aspects
important for the accurate and equal distribution of the care process associated resources in
the care process. This paper identifies one important PICO question associated with the topic
and used it for the development of discussion to provide information regarding the
importance of the process in the care delivery system. Further, with application of multiple
examples it identifies the importance of the life cycle aspects mentioned in the care process.

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References
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assessment: state of the art and the way forward. The International Journal of Life
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Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea, I., Chiumente, M., & Dauben, H. P. (2017). The Life Cycle of Health
Technologies. Challenges and Ways Forward. Frontiers in pharmacology, 8, 14.
Lingg, M. (2017). The regulation, assessment, and management of orthopaedic medical
devices in Mexico: crucial aspects, problems, and steps to improve it (Doctoral
dissertation, University_of_Basel).
Mann, K., & Davenport, M. (2016). Demography, Capital Flows and Asset Allocation over
the Life-cycle.
Villares, M., Işıldar, A., Beltran, A. M., & Guinee, J. (2016). Applying an ex-ante life cycle
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