The introduction of Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) techniques creates opportunities for avoiding a range of errors that may occur during the manual input of the necessary data (Mozaffar, Cresswell, Lee, Williams, & Sheikh, 2016). That being said, innovative technology also implies dealing with certain challenges. For instance, the lack...
Modern technologies continue to improve the quality of medical services available to different patients. Institutions and departments embracing the power of health informatics solve numerous problems, streamline care delivery procedures and improve patients’ outcomes. The selected topic for this paper is that of computerized provider order entry (CPOE). This refers...
Scenario John is 34-year-old African American male. He has reported having problems with maintaining sleep and wakes up feeling tired. John says his partner has indicated a gradual increase in the longevity and volume of snoring during sleep. He is suffering from extra weight and minor asthma. However, the symptoms...
How do industry initiatives compare and/or contrast with one another? Nowadays there is a tendency among HIT software vendors to create coalitions or alliances such as the CommonWell Health Alliance (2015) or the Sequoia Project’s Carequality. These alliances aim to embrace the entire healthcare community and ensure the seamlessness of...
I agree with Michael’s review of Prause’s (2016) paper: in my opinion, this blog post helps to distinguish between digitization and digitalization and presents the information in a way that is easy to comprehend. It appears that the author intended to provide the simple definitions, and this assumption can be...
Scenario for Ms. Wong Ms. Wong is a 28-year-old female diagnosed with obesity She lives alone and does not have anyone to support her in her decision to change the unhealthy lifestyle She has college education and works as a primary school teacher She struggles to maintain her diet healthy...
Quality Improvement Meaningful use refers to the application of electronic health records (EHR) for the enhancement of the quality of services, by improving safety, competence among the inter-professional teams, and ensuring that health disparities are eliminated. Meaningful use also involves the need for the practitioners to involve the patient and...
Scenario Mr. Johnson is a 60-year-old male recently diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia. He is active for his age but experiences discomfort in his chest. He used to work as an ambulance paramedic for many years and has the medical background necessary to manage the condition. However, Mr. Johnson requires guidance...
Introduction The recent developments in technology allowed for the creation of numerous tools that can positively influence nursing care, such as electronic health records, telehealth, and similar technologies. Computerized provider order entry, or computerized physician order entry, is one of such tools. It was designed to reduce medical errors by...
Web-based interventions are an important tool that nurses can use to improve the quality of life in their patients (Fredericks, Martorella, & Catallo, 2014; Yin, Goldsmith, & Gambardella, 2015). In order to do so, nurses can target patients and their caregivers. Web-based education (WBE) for caregivers can achieve multiple aims,...
Information systems can contribute to the improvement of care delivery by increasing the speed of care, its quality, and patient safety (Westra et al., 2015). The material resources that are connected to information systems (especially the equipment) are expected to contribute to the quality of healthcare and patient outcomes when...
Introduction Translation science is focused on the process of translating evidence-supported interventions into practice; translation science both tests said interventions and studies the barriers, facilitators, and other aspects of their adoption (Titler, 2014; Titler, Adams, & Cameron, 2014). The current paper suggests focusing on the barriers and facilitators relevant to...
What is the purpose of this research? The purpose of the study by Pals et al. (2015) was to check whether patients and doctors would perceive a device (“Vagus”) as useful for detecting CAN (cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy). What is the research question (or questions)? This may be implicit or explicit...
Nowadays, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of nursing informatics. As the use of information technology in nursing grows and significantly enhances the usual procedures, the need for skilled workforce increases as well. Two of the roles that are central to the process are those of a nursing informatics...
Introduction Nursing informatics is a new field that is empowering more caregivers to deliver evidence-based patient care. Medical practitioners and nurses should possess appropriate competencies in order to support their patients. Modern technologies are transforming various healthcare processes and procedures (Bizer, Boncz, Brodie, & Erling, 2011). The targeted behavior for...
General Aspects of the Technology Topic Telemedicine: digital technology for medical observations; Helps determine the most suitable treatment; Considers biometric data and its analysis; High satisfaction rate/cost-effectiveness (Jacoby, 2017); Rapidly intervening into the medical sphere; Growing segment (Grand View Research, 2016). Telemedicine is a digital solution that collects observations and...
Standardized terminology and nomenclature in nursing informatics are predominantly aimed at enabling communication, which, in turn, is supposed to support multiple fields of nursing activities, including “practice, education, management, and research” (Casey, 2015, p. 119). Technically, no currently existing nomenclature is exhaustive, and more work is needed before a universal...
Knowledge management is incredibly important for nursing, especially for evidence-based practice (Nelson & Staggers, 2016). The key components of knowledge management include its acquisition (for example, through education) and sharing and dissemination (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2017). Moreover, knowledge management also involves the development of knowledge (search for it through, for...
Introduction In this paper, YouTube videos are used to define the concepts of the data warehouse (DW), data mart (DM), and ETLs. To choose the videos, I paid attention to the authors, the number of subscribers and views, the informative and visual quality of the video, and its connection to...
By paying attention to the current and future trends in nursing informatics, DNP-prepared nurses can stay informed and effectively employ them in advanced nursing practice. One of the helpful initiatives in this regard is the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER). TIGER is aimed at improving nursing education from the...
Web-based continuing education (WBCE) for nurses is an option that is becoming increasingly popular, which might be attributed to its convenience, flexibility, and specific resources (Chiu & Tsai, 2014; Liaw et al., 2015). Consequently, WBCE receives the attention of investigators, and they develop and test WBCE courses. It can be...
Executive Summary The present paper is a Business Case document. It examines the opportunity for adopting new EHR at a Psychiatry Department, and two possible options are suggested for consideration: Practice Fusion EHR by Practice Fusion and PowerChart by Cerner. The Business Case considers the opportunity in the context of...
Current and emerging technologies to support safe practice environments The technologies in the sphere of medicine are used for three reasons. First and foremost, patient safety should be optimized. Secondly, the issue regarding the costs should be taken into consideration. Finally, the technologies should improve the health outcome of the...
Web-based patient education (WBPE) has been evidenced to make patients better informed, resulting in improved decision-making and empowerment (Yin, Goldsmith, & Gambardella, 2015). Moreover, WBPE can result in improved quality of life (Cristancho-Lacroix et al., 2015). Since it is innovative, WBPE is transforming healthcare, but still, it is in line...
Translation science can be defined as “a field of research that focuses on testing implementation interventions” in order to “explicate what implementation strategies work for whom, in what settings, and why” (Titler, 2014, p. 270). The aim of translation science consists of promoting the adoption and successful use of evidence-based...
In order to test evidence-based interventions and determine the facilitators and barriers to evidence-based practice, translation science employs multiple methods (Titler, Adams, & Cameron, 2014). Some of them include bundles of care, which refer to groups of practices that benefit from being implemented together, clinical pathways, which can be described...
From the perspective of evidence-based practice, information systems are invaluable. Indeed, they can be viewed as a part of the evidence-based practice since their introduction in nursing processes tends to enhance the latter, but it is also a source of valuable data, including nursing data (Westra et al., 2015). The...
At my workplace, the electronic health record (EHR) technology was introduced some time ago, and it appears to have a notable influence on the environment of advanced practice nurses at my correctional institution. EHRs are a type of information system that is rather widespread in the US nowadays (Westra et...
Some of the aspects of information systems that have a particularly notable impact on nursing research and education include the collection, systematization, and provision of the data to inform decision-making. Apart from that, information systems can help in finding the resources that would facilitate decision-making. For example, A DNP-prepared nurse...
Within the advanced nursing practice environment, especially when nursing informatics is concerned, the human factor is often considered a restricting phenomenon since it is prone to result in mistakes (Wachter & Gupta, 2017). However, Wachter and Gupta (2017) highlight the fact that the human factor can and should be taken...
Geographic Information System for Health and Human Services The GIS lessons on the healthcare costs are concerned with the analysis of the patterns the geographic distribution of Medicare costs; apart from that, they are aimed at data displaying, classification and analysis skills building (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc, 2016c) The...
Enhanced portability and accessibility of electronic health records (EHR) are beneficial for improving their performance. However, it is the central ethical concern regarding broad implementation and use of EHR, as there are risks of unauthorized disclosure of private health information (PHI). Therefore, failing to guarantee the security of provided PHI...
Technology Term Definition and Purpose Explain each term in your own words using complete sentences. Health Care Example Identify an example of each term and discuss how it is used in a health care setting. References Provide two APA formatted references to support your claims for each term. Clinical decision...
As an integral part of the health care sector, information systems play a significant role in complications prevention. Precisely speaking, such procedures as patient monitoring, diagnosis coding, and electronic health record should be utilized to enhance the health care delivery among the marked patients. In order to achieve the visibility...
Inpatient Clinical Information System Description The system is meant to control admission, discharge, and transfer of patients. It provides an opportunity to schedule beds and hospital resources. The system allows us to calculate bills and track other types of patient information. Significance The automation of tracking and planning hospital functionalities...
Introduction Modern technology-based information systems can significantly improve the quality of health care provided to patients (Lu, Hsiao, & Chen, 2012). Such systems may include electronic health record (EHR) systems, computerized physician order entry services, or other examples of applying technology to procedures normally performed in health care facilities. EHR...
Selection of a Technology Contemporary clinical information systems are designed to “to support safe, evidence-based, patient-centered care by examining patient-specific information, agency-specific information, and domain-specific information in the clinical context” (Shortliffe & Cimino, 2014, p. 496). The mentioned aspects of information are used for everyday decision-making by healthcare professionals. There...
Introduction The healthcare industry has undergone significant improvements with the technological revolution of the 21st century. Innovations in this sector have huge impacts on people’s health. One of the important inventions in this industry is electronic health records (EHR). While earlier innovations focused on drugs and equipment, EHR has revolutionized...
Abstract A personal health record is a system that allows patients to access, save, handle, and share information about their wellbeing with physicians. It enables doctors to track the medical history of a patient, thereby making informed decisions. Many people believe that a PHR empowers patients, giving them full control...
Introduction Aspden et al. (2004), in their 2003 Institute of Medicine of the National Academies patient safety report described electronic medical records as a system which encompasses, “a longitudinal collection of electronic health information for and about persons which can be immediately accessed by people with the help of an...
The use of information systems has transformed the quality of care available to many patients. The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is used in hospitals to document the nature of medical support and patient outcomes. EMRs make it easier for physicians to understand the health needs of their patients and deliver...
The aim of this project is to scrutinize the newly acquired healthcare informatics system to access its efficiency in service delivery and compare it with the old system to determine notable improvements. However, the new informatics system will be adopted gradually and systematically since the existing one will be retained...
Background The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a system of managing patient information in an interoperable, easily accessible, and highly effective manner. It enables easy retrieval of important health information for patients regardless of their point of treatment. With EHRs, health physicians can access and evaluate the patients’ history. This...
Executive Summary Analysis of information provides the basic platform for making decisions in an organisation. A large amount of information compels organisations to employ many employees if they (organisations) do not utilise information systems (IS). From the context of Health Authority-Abu Dhabi (HAAD), such an approach introduces ineffectiveness and inefficiencies...
Health care information technology systems Information technology has influenced a lot of changes in the global health care industry. As a result of the integration of information technology systems, health care delivery systems across the world are more efficient (Revels, 2012). One of the notable changes associated with the adoption...
Health care providers point at the problem that today, it is necessary to improve the ways of exchanging patient health information among health care institutions and facilities because of the necessity to guarantee the provision of efficient care. From this point, it is important to concentrate on the question of...
