Assessment 1: Nursing Informatics and Healthcare Outcomes Report

This report examines the critical role of nursing informatics and technology in enhancing healthcare outcomes. It emphasizes the increasing demand for professionals skilled in both medicine and technology, particularly nurse informaticists, who integrate nursing expertise with technical knowledge to improve patient care. The report details the importance of nursing informatics, distinguishing it from healthcare informatics and highlighting the nurse informaticist's role in quality control, system upgrades, health education, and patient record management. It discusses the use of technologies like EMRs and CPOE, the impact of nurse informaticists in healthcare organizations, and their role in decision-making processes. Evidence-based strategies for managing patient health information, including HIPAA and GDPR, are also addressed, along with the impact of fully engaged nurses and the opportunities and challenges faced by nurse informaticists. The report concludes with recommendations and emphasizes the potential of health informatics to drive advancements in medicine, leading to more efficient and improved healthcare delivery.

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Importance Of Technology In Healthcare
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Executive Summary
The need for the improved technological system in health care is getting increased day by
day. As more hospitals and healthcare systems are using advanced technologies like
Electrical Medical Records(EMR) or computer-assisted coding, the demand for professionals
who has sufficient knowledge about both medicines, health, and technology is at peak.

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Table of Contents
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Importance of nursing informatics for a nurse informaticist.................................................3
Role of nurse informaticists in a healthcare organization......................................................4
Importance of informatics in Decision Making.....................................................................4
Evidence-based strategies for managing patient health information.....................................4
Impact of fully-engaged nurses in a healthcare organization.................................................5
Opportunities and Challenges for Nurse Informaticist..........................................................5
Summary of Recommendation...................................................................................................6
REFERENCE:............................................................................................................................7

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Nursing Informatics is a developing area which has the potential to provide improved
healthcare and better health outcome. It involves nursing specialists who merge their nursing
skills along with appropriate technical knowledge together to deliver enhanced patient care
services. Informatics helps to bring advanced technology in the daily routine of a nurse,
helping them to analyze complex health issues, monitor patient records, and achieve a new
efficient health care system for the patients(Crowhurst, Bergin & Wells, 2019). This paper
primarily focuses on the importance of informatics and technology in the field of medicine
and its subsequent execution by the nursing professions who are efficient in both areas
intending to provide better health outcomes.
Discussion
Importance of nursing informatics for a nurse informaticist
Nursing informatics is different from healthcare informatics, as the later is involved in
administrative issues, whereas, nursing informatics mainly deals with patient care. Nurse
informatics is also involved with quality control, system up-gradation, or giving health
education and initial training to other junior staff. Other tasks include monitoring quality
initiatives, analysis of the clinical status, managing patient health records and also takes part
in the optimization of overall system performance. They also ensure that the tools and
technologies employed in patient health care are user-friendly for the staff using them.
Techniques that are currently used in health informatics include “Computerized Provider
Order Entry”(CPOE) and “Electronic Medical Records”(EMR). EMR is used to prepare
digitalized patient records, including all the test results and progression reports(Strudwick et
al, 2017).

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Role of nurse informaticists in a healthcare organization
In the health care system, nurse informaticists are used in delivering computerized
medication prescriptions, running mobile laboratories and measure the progress of patients in
real-time, reducing the frequency of error in the data. They integrate both clinical and
technical information to provide efficient patient care and productive workflow(Sawerr,
Stevens & Martin, 2018). They help in formulating strategies to convert the analytics of an
algorithm into improved patient care and safety. Technology assists the nurse to monitor and
anticipate patient needs more effectively, and also interprets, evaluates data based on care
outcomes such as cost-saving, utilization of medical resources and disease management.
Importance of informatics in Decision Making
The health care leaders use informatics, which provides them the essential
information to make decisions about the enhancement of technological process and serve the
patients better. It ensures whether correct data is given to the clinician, making it easier for
them to make necessary decisions(Vydiswaran et al, 2019). By incorporating the preferences
of the patient, they will be able to gain their trust. Data-driven decisions help in creating
strategies for process improvement and integrate information into the workflow.
Evidence-based strategies for managing patient health information
Though the recent advancement in technology led to well accessible and improved
health care, the privacy of the patient or doctors, nurses are a matter of great concern today.
Many regulatory compliance requirements, such as the “US Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA”) and “EU General Data Privacy Regulation “(GDPR), serve to
protect the privacy of patients and health professionals(Haldar et al, 2020). Leakage of
patient data can cause significant adverse personal and social impacts on their families, and

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also invite a considerable financial loss. These organizations help to protect medical status as
a guarded secret. Protected health information (PHI) helps to identify a patient(Iyengar,
Kundu & Pallis, 2018). However, in HIPAA does genomic data (which provides more details
about a patient) is not included and even the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) also
does not have a standard body which identifies genomic data as a highly sensitive personal
information.
Impact of fully-engaged nurses in a healthcare organization
The fully engaged nurses have higher job satisfaction levels than the other nurse and
are more dedicated to their responsibilities or duties regarding patient care, they stick through
the organization through thick and thin, thus reducing turnover. The patient experience is also
improved as they provide high-quality and safe care. Full nurse engagement leads to
improved health care, thus lowering mortality rate and health complexities among patients.
According to the data provided by the “ National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators”,
higher nurse engagement resulted in around 86% decrease in infection rate over a span of two
years. Moreover fully engaging the nurse in the healthcare organization will help to earn the
loyalty of the employee and improved healthcare delivery(Landon et al, 2019).
Opportunities and Challenges for Nurse Informaticist
The career of nurse informatics aims to provide improved management and communication
in the field of health care. It also helps to boost efficiency, reduce expense and deliver better
patient care. A nurse informaticist helps to integrate data and knowledge for giving support to
the patients, novice nurses and other health care providers. They are also involved in
documentation and communication, which helps to deliver efficient, improved and high-
quality health care to patients. Although nurse informatics has lead to improved patient care
and more optimized health care system development, recently it is facing many challenges.

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One of the biggest issues is the lack of data integration in the computer system or software,
other problems are lack of support of the administration, fear of user acceptance, absence of a
proper strategic plan or framework of the organization, poor software design which is not
user-friendly along with a deficiency in infrastructure and time management. And sometimes
data are not available for decision-making purposes(Jefferey, 2019).
As a whole, it can be said that the demand for nurse informaticists in the field of medicine is
increasing on a daily basis. Within the health care system, they are involved in
administration, leadership, and management. They are also involved in the analysis of data
which helps them to construct a proper decision-making framework and management of
patient health outcomes. A nurse informaticist is associated with Compliance and Integrety
Management by establishing technical process and revising the operational procedures.
Summary of Recommendation
In conclusion, it can be stated that, though the field of health informatics has been there for a
long time, it is not yet matured enough and has some major issues and concerns associated
with it that need to be taken care of immediately. Apart from that, it is evident from the last
shreds of evidence that technology has brought the field of medicine to a new level by
providing efficient and improved health care to patients. It employs modern tools and
software which provide better monitoring and diagnosis. Thus, it can be said that the field of
health informatics has great potential to give new insights and bring newer possibilities in the
field of medicine.

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