NAME: Kenneth Jake Q.

Tayaban
DATE/TIME: 3/10/2023
SECTION/YEAR LEVEL: D-2
INSTRUCTOR: Lirio Valera
1. Effects of Informatics on healthcare

- The effects are critical and beneficial since health IT systems, electronic health
records and software tools can not only assist in nurses’ daily tasks but fuel transformation
throughout a healthcare organization. Informatics professionals investigate data to find
powerful means of helping providers fulfill their duties and collaborate across multiple
disciplines. Technology is causing sweeping changes so that the traditional roles of nurses
might become outdated.

By embracing the possibilities of informatics, nurses and other healthcare professionals can
position themselves ahead of the curve. Accurate and thorough electronic health records are
essential to high-quality treatment. Informaticians ensure that organizations have the platforms
and processes in place to document each patient’s condition and history in depth while
complying with privacy regulations. Digital connections place extensive biometrics and
pharmacy records at nurses’ fingertips so they can plan interventions and share the relevant
findings with various departments.

Nursing staff use informatics solutions to identify patients who are at higher risk for serious
conditions and take preventative steps early. Automated alerts minimize the chance for
medical errors by warning providers about potential dangers such as a patient’s allergy or a
hazardous drug interaction.

2. The need for nurses to be computer fluent and information literate to today's
healthcare environment

- In today’s generation with the rise of technology and informatics it is critical for the
nurse to be information literate and computer fluent.

The use of computer and information technology to support an electronic health record (EHR)
is quickly becoming a standard practice in health care. For nurses and other health-care team
members, the use of computer technology provides quick access to important information
about your health or illness. For you, it means no longer having to repeat your health
information multiple times as you receive care and the assurance that members of your health-
care team have ready access to current health information.

3. Health care standard organizations

- There are a number of organizations that participate in the development and publication of
healthcare data standards. Because of their importance in the area of healthcare data
exchange standards and formats, IBM focuses on the standards and formats developed and
maintained by the following four organizations:

ANSI ASC X12N

NCPDP
HL7
CMS

ANSI ASC X12N

The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) of the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) maintains the X12 standard. X12 is the dominant EDI standard in North America. The
transaction sets included in the X12 standard cover a wide range of industries and business
functions - including the exchange of healthcare data. The Healthcare Task Group of the
Insurance Subcommittee (also known as X12N) is the designated standards maintenance
organization (DSMO) for most of the finalized HIPAA transaction set standards.

National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP)

The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) is another HIPAA-designated
standards maintenance organization (DSMO) for finalized HIPAA transactions. The NCPDP
standards are used exclusively in the retail pharmacy sector.

Health Level 7 (HL7)

Health Level Seven (HL7) is an ANSI-accredited standards organization operating in the
healthcare arena. HL7's domain is clinical and administrative data. The HL7 standard
facilitates the exchange, management, and integration of data, intended to promote
 interoperability between healthcare information systems.

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), formerly known as "HCFA", is the
supervisory organization for all public expenditures for healthcare. CMS provides health
insurance for over 74 million Americans through Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Child
Health Insurance Program.

4. History of Nursing Informatics in the Philippines

Some of the major milestones in nursing informatics history in the Philippines includes the
participation of the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) in the development of Standards for
Health Information in the Philippines (SHIP) in 1999, the formation of the Master of Science in
Health Informatics (MSHI) which began in 2005, and the formation of the Philippine Nursing
Informatics Association(PNIA) in 2010 as a sub-specialty organization of PNA for nursing
informatics.

The nursing community was still yet to follow its international counterparts in the adoption of
information, communication and technology in nursing practice in the Philippines. Despite the
inclusion of Informatics course in the undergraduate curriculum which focused on basic
desktop applications, the need for genuine nursing informatics course had not yet been
realized. In 2008, Nursing Informatics course in the undergraduate curriculum was defined by
the Commission on Highe rEducation (CHED) Memorandum Order 5 Series of 2008. This was
later revised and included as Health Informatics course in CHED Memorandum Order 14
Series of 2009. This was first implemented in the summer of 2010.

The Philippine nursing community have long sought to keep up with increasing use of
information and technology in the health care system. Nursing Informatics follows the foot
steps of biomedical informatics which has gained relative popularity earlier than its other allied
medical counterparts.

REFERENCES:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ste/8.4.1?topic=hedii-healthcare-standards-organizations

https://prezi.com/xkxh7ehdanb1/history-of-nursing-informatics-in-the-
philippines/#:~:text=Some%20of%20the%20major%20milestones,Health%20Informatics%20(M
SHI)%20which%20began