Nursing Informatics System

Nursing Informatics System

Introduction

Healthcare informatics

The informatics of healthcare concentrates on organizing the data in this field. It is a broad terminology that explains the detainment, recovery, accumulation, revealing, allocation, and exploitation of biomedical data and information and acquaintance to provide cure, solving the issues, and taking a decision (Shortliffe & Blois, 2001). The target is to perk up the utilization of information and comprehension in sustaining care of the patient, investigations and guidance (Delaney, 2001). The hub is on the theme, data, in contrast to the apparatus, and the computer. The peculiarity is not clear all the time in consequence of the requirement to head the skills of the computer to make an individual able to organize the data. The computer system is utilized to in obtaining, managing, maneuvering, and revealing the data. It will not create any valuable thing with no direction by human in where, how, and when the information is gained, how it is managed, construed, operated, and demonstrated. Informatics gives the direction of human being.

This paper discusses the benefits of such systems, security concerns and standard with respect to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the benefits of active involvement of nurses in planning, implementing and choosing such systems and how their handheld devices can be integrated into these systems. It goes on to discuss two specific systems that can be applied to a community hospital with a hundred beds and their individual benefits. The paper concludes with a recommendation, with justification, of one of the two systems.

Discussion

Information systems have made all this possible. By organizing, storing and retrieve relevant data, computer systems truly help physicians face and conquer numerous challenges. Information systems that are specifically designed for the needs of the health care system are called medical informatics. It can be defined as a system that deals with the promoting and understanding of organizations, the basic analysis of information, its management and effect delivery of the said information (www.amia.org). Today, numerous hospitals all around the world utilize systems that function as described. Pharmacies have been linked up to each patient records and medication is ready to be retrieved once it has been assigned by your physician. Nurses no longer have to run to stationary points for retrieving and providing necessary information. The mobility has allowed them to focus more on their patient's care, comfort and well being. All this was not possible a few decades ago. The Agency for healthcare Research and Quality, commonly referred to as the AHRQ, has funded and supported research in the field on informatics. Most of the systems employed in hospitals today were somehow related to AHRQ research and funding (Fitzmaurice et.al, 2002).

Management Systems and Quality of Care

Initially, information technology and information systems were considered extremely radical concepts. It is not entirely false. Gone are the days when everything had to be written down, maintained in filling cabinets and retrieved when the doctor needed it by an individual or a group of ...