Overview of Informatics in

Health Care
As technology progresses, many profession benefitted from the development
and advancement of such for efficiency and accuracy; The medical
profession identified the need of technology in providing effective and
efficient patient care as early as 1970’s.
Clinical informaticists and data scientists aspired to utilize the information
being captured during initial patient interaction to the improvement of
action plans – the outcome is the development of Electronic Health Records
and Electronic Medical Records that stores patient data, treatment plan,
course of action, discharge plan and many more. Such is being used by
technologically advanced nations in the provision of care and nursing
intervention.

ACTIVITY 1
Learning Objectives: Discuss the role of the informatics nurse in leading
change and providing quality care to patients.
Instructions: Read at least two of the articles and watch the video, and then
respond to the scenario.
Articles:
 American Organization of Nurse Executives. (2012). Position Paper:
Nursing Informatics Executive Leader. Retrieved from:
https://www.aonl.org/sites/default/files/aone/informatics-executive-
leader.pdf
 Behring, S. & Sullivan, D. B. (n.d.) What’s it like to work as a Nurse
Informaticist? Retrieved from:
https://www.allnursingschools.com/nursing-informatics/job-
description/
 Kwiatkoski, T. (2021, August 3). Nursing Informaticists are the
Backbone of Technology- Driven Care. Retrieved from:
https://voice.ons.org/news-and-views/nursing-informaticists-are-
the-backbone-of-technology-driven-care

Video: Nursing Informatics (2020, November 30). Nursing Informatics

Overview. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ub1ScYHH3GE
Scenario:
You are a nurse informaticist at Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial
Regional Hospital assigned to ICU and Medical-Surgical Department.
Recently, the hospital implemented a new electronic medical records system,
and you have been actively involved in making it work. You have just been
informed of two situations that need some intervention.
Situation 1: The ICU nurses are complaining that they must re-enter the
vital signs information for patients transferred from the Emergency
Department, because the ED system doesn’t interface with the new EMR
system.
Situation 2: Nurses in Medical ward are complaining because they have to
re-enter the same data in two places because the system requires it.
Question:
Why are these situations problems, and how would you approach resolving
them in terms of informatics?

ACTIVITY 2
Learning Objectives: To define nursing Informatics.
Instructions: Based on what you have learned from the sources provided in
Activity 1, discuss the impact of informatics on nursing care in essay format
containing of 80-100 words. Please observe the APA format.

ACTIVITY 3
Learning Objectives: To review the history of clinical informatics
development.
Instructions: Create a diagram or a flowchart explaining the “Six Time
Period” of the historical perspectives in Clinical Informatics and then answer
the question.
Question: Which among the “Six Time Periods” is worth receiving the title
the “Golden Age in Nursing Informatics”. Write the rationale in essay form
(word count 80-100).
 Overview of Informatics in
Health Care
NAME: Lyza Mae D. Fernandez DATE & TIME:
YEAR/SEC: BSN 2 – F SCORE: ___________

ACTIVITY 1:
In order to provide quality care to patients, look into the troubleshooting
that each department is complaining about and assure the health care team
that you’ll investigate thoroughly and resolve the problem as soon as
possible. Train the nurses on the system and answer the question why they
are encountering such and so that they will have knowledge in the field of
computer systems. Patient safety must be the highest priority in any
informatics systems when patient care is involved and privacy of patient
information held in the system must be as secure as possible.    

ACTIVITY 2:

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Nursing

Informatics is the backbone of technology-driven care, behind the development,

implementation and optimization of electronic medical and health records, nursing clinical

documentation, point of care clinical decision support, and computerized practitioner order

entry. They analyze data to improve patient care and help the healthcare facility implement

new patient care technology. Nursing Informatics involves more in Information Technology

than focuses more on the direct care of the patients. As the field of Nursing Informatics

grows, it'll be requiring an advanced training or degree to work in the field.   

ACTIVITY 3:
For me the Golden Age in Nursing Informatics out of the Six Time Periods
would be the 1980’s this is where the field of informatics emerged in the
health care industry and nursing. Technology challenged creative
professionals and the use of computers in nursing became revolutionary.
This revolutionary technology made computers more accessible, affordable,
and usable by nurses and other health care providers. This is when the
microcomputer or personal computer (PC) emerged and brought computing
power to the workplace and, more importantly, to the point of care.