NR599: Nursing Informatics for Advanced Practice_2020 | Medical Application Critical Appraisal Guidelines

Medical Application Critical Appraisal Guidelines Chamberlain University NR599: Nursing Informatics for Advanced Practice May, 2020 Medical Application Critical Appraisal Guidelines The use of mobile devices and other electronic devices is now seen as a common tool in health care, leading to the fast growing development of medical software applications. Such applications are easily accessible to assist healthcare providers with many tasks such as information gathering, patient management, monitoring and clinical decision making. As stated by Ventola, mobile devices and applications provide many benefits for healthcare professionals, perhaps most significantly increased access to point-of-care tools, which has been shown to support better clinical decision-making and improved patient outcomes. (Ventola, 2014). The aim of this paper is to explain and describe the name, the authors, endorsement, operation, purpose, aesthetics, safety, privacy, credibility distribution and relevance of the MediCalc application. I will also make a clinical scenario incorporating the MediCalc application. Name ScyMed is a medical technology company that developed Medicalc. - - -