Health Informatics Technology Assignment

P R E S E N T E D B Y …
Health Informatics Technology in 20018: Telehealth and
Telemedicine
Chamberlain University
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
NR-512

Telehealth topic presented with rational for selection
Telehealth is becoming a new reality in studying nursing
(American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2017).
This topic would provide the graduate nurses with
knowledge and skills to improve patient care
This topic would provide information on integrated
technologies which can be used to coordinate patient care
(Shaw, Sensmeier & Anderson, 2017).
The topic would help deliberate significance of Telehealth
for advance nurse practitioner.

How Telehealth/Telemedicine impacts nursing informatics
Use of Telehealth technologies helps nurses to interrelate
and monitor patients remotely.
 It permits more effective delivery of Care.
Helps nursing informatics to combine their
clinical expertise and technical information to
ascertain technological innovation that meets
requirements of organization(Sweeney, 2018).
It helps offer digital assessment to treat patients and
communicate with other health care providers
Reaching more presence in the health care and address
telehealth reimbursement.

Nursing informatics skills that were used to develop this
assignment
Technical skills: Informatics nursing expected to know
how to utilize productivity tools
Content curation. Entails research, save and archive
content (Kvedar, Coye & Everett, 2014).
Learned skills are open programs , generate files ,
save and open files, rename files as well as
folders .
Other skills are evaluate data and its sources.
Expertise to capture data and information
associated with clinical care (Rutledge et al 2017).

5Pro’s and Con’s of topic are presented with convincing
arguments
Pros
This topic provide insight on better patient care
quality(Kvedar, Coye & Everett, 2014).
There are extended specialist and referring physician
access
The subject addresses integration of technology to
improve support nursing practice.
Subject addresses interdisciplinary and emerging field to
data science in healthcare (McGonigle, Hunter, Sipes &
Hebda, 2014).

Cons
The study of the topic could be difficult in technical
training for the nurses (Tuckson, Edmunds &Hodgkins,
2017).
With the study of the topic the nurses will have fewer in
person consultations (Kvedar, Coye & Everett, 2014).

Continued…
Pros
With this topic patients would prefer their health care providers turn to
telehealth
With the study of the topic there would be improved access and quality
(American Associations of Colleges of Nursing, 2011).
There is technical training and equipment
Cons
One would have a high demand for additional sessions with the patients
When applying the concept learnt in the topic there could be issues such as
privacy and confidentiality that arises
The topic lacks the aspects of overlooking physical interaction between
nurses and patients (Rutledge & Gray, 2015)
It could be expense to study this topic.

Conclusion
The subject helps to recognize knowledge in the informatics
Technology.
It enhances evaluation of the significance of the
technological innovation utilization in Advance nursing
practice.
The application of Telemedicine and Telehealth would bring top notch
health care to the patient.
It would ensure that there is patient monitoring; nurses rely on the
technology to keep tabs on patient conditions.
There would be training for the nurses when they study the subject.
The nurses’ informatics could educate health care employees to use
Telehealth and monitoring equipment.

References
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (2017). AACN essentials. Retrieved from http://www.aacnnursing.org/Education-
Resources/AACN-Essentials.
Essential V: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
American Associations of Colleges of Nursing. (2011). The essentials of master’s education in nursing. Retrieved from
http://www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/42/Publications/MastersEssentials11.pdf
Kvedar, J., Coye, M. J., & Everett, W. (2014). Connected health: A review of technologies and strategies to improve patient care with
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McGonigle, D., Hunter, K., Sipes, C., & Hebda, T. (2014). Why nurses need to understand nursing informatics [Everyday Informatics]. AORN
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