Informatics Ch 1
Strategic Plan for Health Information Technology
Personalize care with consumer-based health records and better information for consumers. Improve public health through advanced biosurveillance methods and streamlining the collection of data for quality measurement and research.
patient safety
The main "WHY"
computer literacy
ability to perform various tasks with a computer
health informatics
capture, retrieval, storage, presentation sharing, and use of biomedical information, data, and knowledge for providing care, solving problems, and making decisions
current practice of nursing informatics
capturing data at the point of care and presenting it to facilitate care of an individual patient
data
collection of information acquired by observation, measurement , or experiment and used as a basis for calculation or inference. examples: vital signs, ethnicity, length of stay in hospital, or age
computer fluency
individual has an adequate foundation in computer concepts to enable the ability to learn new computer skills and programs independently.
wisdom
occurs when knowledge is evaluated and then used to identify patterns and solve problems
information technology
refers to the management and processing of information
experienced
should be highly skilled in using information management and computer technology to support area of practice (able to make judgments based on trends and patterns in data elements)
beginner
should have basic information management and computer technology skills
knowledge
synthesis of information
informatics
use of information technology in healthcare; focus on information management (NOT COMPUTERS)
nursing informatics
Acquisition, manipulation, storage, presentation, and use of information ■Goals: user-friendly data input; information presented that is timely and useful for clinical nurse; Considerations for secondary data; aggregated data
recording and keeping information on a paper chart
How was informatics historically used?
data
Informatics is now focused on capturing ______ at the point of care and presenting it in a way that facilitates the care of an individual patient
true
Now computer systems in healthcare use standard terminology and protocols (system of rules).
aggregated data
Nursing decisions can be made based on actual patient care data or??
true
Strategic Plan for Health Information Technology also interconnects clinicians so that they can exchange health information using advanced and secure electronic communication.
EHR
Strategic plan for health info technology is to inform clinical practice with use of ?
information literacy
The ability to know when information is needed, and how to locate, evaluate, and effectively use it; part of foundation for evidence based practice
tools (computer)
The focus of health informatics is subject and information, not..?
information management related to nursing
The focus of nursing informatics is?
Improve patient outcomes, provide information about problems, show patterns; Improved communication among all healthcare providers;Easy, quick storage, and retrieval of healthcare records; Saving of time and money with computerization of tasks; easier method for recording charges (no lost charges)
What are benefits of informatics?
patient centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence based practice, quality improvement, safety, informatics
What are the QSEN competencies?
informatics specialist and clinician who must use health info technology
What are the two roles of informatics?
critical thinking, problem solving, and computer skills
What does information literacy require?
improve use of healthcare data, information, and knowledge in supporting patient care, research, and education
What is the purpose of health informatics?
Secondary data analysis
analyzing data for purposes other than the purpose of the original collection.
information
data that has been interpreted; example: vital signs that have been plotted on a graph that shows patterns of good or bad readings, reflecting patient status
other benefits of nursing informatics
■Enhances practice and allows nursing science to develop ■Improves documentation; decreases time spent on documentation- enter patient data once- can be retrieved and presented in many forms to meet the needs of the user ■Uses data for quality control and research due to complete documentation ■Builds evidence-based nursing knowledge
