Unit 7 Activity: Case Study

Thea Yvonne Lacangan (20150899)

University of Cebu – College of Nursing

Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue Campus (UCLM)

Nursing Informatics NCM 110

Instructor: Domino Puson

 Nursing is one of those professions that cannot be outsourced overseas or replaced with

technology in the foreseeable future. Nursing is still a person-to-person profession. Technology

has always been incorporated into our practice that has generally improved care by improving

assessment, documentation, and decision making. I can now take a patient’s temperature in

seconds rather than minutes when I first started, but I am still one-to-one with a patient.

I predict future technologies will further extend our abilities to assess patients’ physical

condition through improved monitoring. Wearable monitors will give oceans of data that will

require new ways to manage that data. Artificial intelligence improvements will guide us in areas

where algorithms are currently used. You will walk into a patient’s room and the computer will

offer suggested assessments, remind you of upcoming tasks, and alert you to findings that are

unexpected. AI can help the novice see faster how the more experienced nurse makes a decision.

Lastly, I think documentation will improve immensely. The current electronic medical record

system is analogous to having to use DOS command lines on the first PCs. The GUI interface

changed the way we worked with computers. In the future EMRs will integrate data from

monitors, prompt the nurse for other needed data, and respond to voice and gesture controls.

So, in the future nursing will be pretty recognizable to us but will have more technologies that

will give more time to be with patients and less time typing on a keyboard.

Nursing informatics enables health care organizations to transform data into information that

helps health care practitioners, such as nurses and physicians, to deliver the best possible

outcomes for patients. It combines nursing science, systems-driven analytics, and information

science to identify, capture, manage, and share health care data. A key aim of nursing
 informatics is providing clinicians responsible for health care decisions with timely, accurate

patient health data to deliver patient-centered care and improve outcomes.

Nursing informatics helps improve vital nursing processes like documentation, which is an

important aspect of the profession and essential for effective patient care. Before electronic

health records (EHRs), nurses recorded patient information on charts. Today, nursing informatics

simplifies documentation and automates the transmission of patient data via connected devices to

provide access by nurses, physicians, and patients.

Understanding the role of nursing informatics in nursing practice is critical for individuals to

advance their health care careers. The benefits of nursing informatics include a reduction in

medical errors, lower costs, improved nurse productivity, and better care coordination among

nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and others throughout various care stages.

Advancements in the future of nursing informatics will center on automated patient and clinical

data records, improved operations at health care facilities, simplified data collection, tracking,

and analysis, and real-time access to patient information anytime, anywhere. Students learn how

to assess and analyze the health care system from a global perspective. Nowadays the healthcare

organizations have a lot of data to handle. Data handling and finding inferences out of that data

has been a game-changer for the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry can make use of

new-age technologies like IoT, robotic process automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine

learning, mobility, cloud, big data.

Using these advanced technologies can have a lot of effect on the healthcare sector such as –

advanced diagnosis and personalized services as one size fits all policy is long gone in hospitals

now. Another thing that bothers the Healthcare sector is data integration aspects. Healthcare
software solutions should be built that they integrate the legacy systems so that the infrastructure

can be handled through a common single touchpoint. Through these systems, the scalability of

the infrastructure also increases and the growth of the business is also supported. Using

healthcare software development solutions also provides data privacy and security which

otherwise could have been compromised with.

Relationships between consumers, providers, regulatory agencies, and policymakers are explored

in the context of their impact on health care delivery. I think the future is looking pretty bright, as

long as we’re able to capitalize on all of the early promise that many technologies are showing. If

we’re able to bring data together from different sources and to analyze it with tools like AI,

machine learning and natural language processing, we can better provide personalized healthcare

and ensure that we’re focusing on individual patient outcomes.

 References:

https://online.norwich.edu/academic-programs/resources/future-of-nursing-informatics

https://www.quora.com/How-will-studying-nursing-enhance-your-future-career

https://www.quora.com/How-will-technology-transform-healthcare-by-2035