Pitfall or Benefit
Data Overload!!
PITFALL
(Article - Healthcare Informatics) The integration of health-care sciences, computer science, information science, and cognitive science to assist in the management of healthcare information
What is HealthCare Informatics?
If used correctly, can greatly reduce medication administration errors and/or giving blood to the wrong patient
What is bar code technology?
The principles and practice of nursing informatics that allow nurses to understand the process they use to convert raw data into the wisdom they need to care for patients.
What is the data, information, knowledge, and wisdom pathway?
The ability to follow lab values and vital signs over time.
What is tracking and trending?
Easy access to records for patients and healthcare providers
BENEFIT
The application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives
What it a health technology?
Prevents infusion errors
What is the alaris pump?
Raw facts (data) that have been processed to have meaning.
What is information?
A database that provides information pulled from nursing documentation in the electronic health record related to nursing sensitive outcomes.
What is National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI)?
Social Media
PITFALL
(Article - Healthcare Informatics) A subset of informatics, specific to the field and the roll of the nurse in the healthcare setting.
What is Nursing Informatics?
Allows discreet observation of patients at low to moderate risk for falls, impulsive behavior, etc.
Tele-sitter technology
Information the user can relate to other information and apply to a task or use to reach an informed decision. Includes other's thoughts and information.
What is Knowledge?
Automatic calculation of critical parameters, alerts of abnormal values, notification of contraindications in orders are examples of this.
What is clinical decision support?
Gathering data for analyzing care and providing evidence to guide improvement of care
BENEFIT
Part of the nation's strategy to put information technology to work in health care.
What is AHRQ's Health Information Technology (IT) Initiative?
Promotes healing of really bad wounds!
What is a wound vac?
The application of knowledge to appropriate situations by using insight or intuition while being thoughtful, judicious, and practical. Focuses on one's own mind and the synthesis of one's own experience, insight, intuition, and understanding.
What is Wisdom?
Provides time frames and reminders for upcoming tasks, assisting with time management
What is the task list?
Conflicting technologies
PITFALL
Incentivizes providers to use their electronic health records by financially rewarding them when demonstrating their use, but also poses a threat by penalizing them if not used in the future.
What is Meaningful Use?
Provides additional "pump" support to patients in heart failure
Impella
Provides the tools and capabilities necessary to enrich the data, information, knowledge, and wisdom pathway literally putting the information and knowledge nurses need at their fingertips.
What is nursing informatics?
Throws everyone into a panic and creates chaos!!
What is DOWNTIME!!!