Informatics in Healthcare
A collection of numbers, characters, or facts that are gathered according to some perceived need for analysis
What is data?
The use of computer hardware and software to process data into information to solve a problem
What is information system?
Focuses on acquiring practical knowledge and skilled behaviors and is an organized approach to providing large numbers of staff and healthcare workers with knowledge
What is training?
A state of mind, a specific place, freedom from intrusion, or control over the exposure of self or of personal information
What is privacy?
The use of telecommunications technologies and electronic information to exchange healthcare information and to provide and support services
What is telehealth?
Data that have been interpreted
What is information?
A group of systems used within a hospital or enterprise that support and enhance healthcare
What is healthcare information system?
Is designed and developed to help ensure instructional success
What is training plan?
Refers to a situation in which a relationship has been established and private information is shared
The first form of telehealth
The science and art of turning data into information
What is informatics?
Supports the use and documentation of nursing processes and activities, and provides tools for managing the delivery of nursing care
What is nursing information system?
Healthcare workers who use an information system to view or document client information
What is end users?
The protection of information against threats to its integrity, inadvertent disclosure, or availability
What is information security?
Two types of current telehealth technologies
A general term used to refer to the management and processing of information with the assistance of computers
What is information technology?
Devices that automatically monitor biometric measurements in critical care and specialty areas, such as cardiology and obstetrics
What is monitoring systems?
Provide computer animation or written instructions for how to use the software application or one of its features
What is online tutorials?
What is vulnerability?
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What is limitations?
The use of information and computer technology to support all aspects of nursing practice
What is nursing informatics?
Provide many benefits, including a shorter turnaround time for results, prevention of duplicate testing, decreased likelihood of human error, and identification of abnormal results
What is laboratory information systems?
Available throughout the software and provide directions at the screen and field level to help end users complete a particular task
What is context sensitive help?
The process of determining whether someone is who he or she professes to be
What is authentication?
Tools that facilitate the delivery of telehealth services
What is teleconferencing and videoconferencing?