Telenursing and Healthcare Informatics

Telenursing and Healthcare Informatics

Introduction

Telenursing is the methodology of examining, investigating, monitoring, and treating the patients from remote locations. The major goal of this system is to eliminate the unnecessary activities involved in the patient care process. Telenursing practices have provided more opportunities to improve the health care processes. The increasing use of technology has enhanced the overall processes in health care but to extent these approaches have also raised concerns for the nurse and patient relationships. The quality of nursing may suffer as from a perspective; the technology cannot be a replacement for nursing but a tool to extend the functionality of the health care.

The paper presents the significance of the telenursing approach with the addition of healthcare informatics. The impact of the approaches on the quality and safety, nursing and inter professional care delivery. The information technology era has automated all the processes, therefore the introduction of telenursing and healthcare informatics has provided the health care industry with enormous benefits. The other side of the system also highlights some issues which can be catered by efficient solutions.

Significance

Telenursing and healthcare informatics have improved the functionality of the health care organizations. Some of the core aspects are:

It is serving as a global resource for the health care professionals.

The approach is facilitating the professionals with many policies, standards, technological developments, and research.

To enhance linkages and network among the health care organizations.

Sharing of knowledge, along with expertise with changing nature of the systems.

A global platform for catering health care issues.

Enhancing health care practices.

Opportunities for the nursing professionals with more expertise and level of skills.

A variety of organized events.

An efficient means of communication and interaction with patients.

Access to the patients with better access and care.

Background

Healthcare informatics has changed the lifestyle of the patient care services. The processing, information base and retrieval of data in healthcare have been made easier. Healthcare informatics is also known as medical informatics. The doctors, nursing professionals and other associated personnel have gained access to create tools and procedures.

The history and background of healthcare informatics is very interesting. The technological advances started in the earlier stages of the 20th century, but it was no where until the 1950s that the concept of healthcare informatics took place in the United States of America. This initiated with the concept of computers. Renowned organizations and institutions started their programs from the starting of 1960s, from Europe. The countries in the initiation process were Germany, France, Belgium, and Netherlands. The development of high quality information systems has been a goal of many countries, especially the United States of America and European Union. In the initial phase the health informatics was known as medical computing. The industry is still growing and therefore different advancements are being introduced for theis purpose.

Purpose of the Paper

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the importance of telenursing and healthcare informatics. The efficiencies and effectiveness these approaches have added in the patient care service and the health care ...