7.1 Health Informantics Flashcards
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Health Informantics
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- Study of design, development, adoption and application of IT based innovations in healthcare services.
- Includes delivery, management and planning
- Helps nurses collect, record, and retrieve patient data
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Nursing Informantics
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- Specialty that integrates nursing with analytics to manage and coordinate data
- Improves health populations by optimizing information management and communication
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Electronic Health Records (EHR)
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- Improves patient safety and quality of care
- Electronically accessible health information
- Produces fewer medical errors, less time charting, electronic decision making prompts, monitor compliance.
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Telehealth and Medical Homes
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- Exchange of medical information between sites
- Improve patient care and cut costs
- Helps rural areas gain access to healthcare
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Simulation and Virtual Patients
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- Increased usage in nursing education
- Mannequins have VS that can allow nurses to practice without risk
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Interactive Games and Health Promotion
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- Games can help evaluate health risk and consequences
- Helps obtain health education while enjoying activities
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E-health and Health Promotion
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- Motivate patients to engage in activity through cellphones, text, email, and internet postings
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Electronic Education and Self-Care Materials
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- Internet may have incomplete/inaccurate information
- About 50% of Americans turn to the internet for information
- Nurses can provide a list of reputable sites for education and material
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Advantages to Technology (health promotion)
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- More opportunity to tailor information to needs of individual groups
- Improved ability to match user learning style
- User is anonymous when seeking information
- Increased access to information/support
- Ability to update and maintain science information
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Disadvantages to Technology Health Promotion
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- Costly to develop, update and maintain
- Users need fast internet
- Ability to search and use terms
- Information overload
- Internet acceptability varies with age, literacy level, and learning style
- Access issues between gender, age, race
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Primary Sources
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- Original research reports and journals
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Secondary Sources
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- Discusses information printed from a primary source (reviews or critques)
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Tertiary Source
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- Textbooks that summarize primary sources
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Gray Information
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- Web-based information
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Traditional Sources
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- Primary/secondary/tertiary are relatively accessible
- Secondary and tertiary summarizes information so it is user friendly in decision making
- Primary sources can take time to find and may not be usable information
