Part 1: Intro to Nursing Informatics Flashcards
Referred to the field of applied computer science.
Nursing Informatics
Concerned with the processing of information such as nursing information.
Nursing Informatics
First introduced into healthcare facilities in the 1960s.
Computers
For the processing of basic administrative tasks; is an essential tool in Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) systems.
Computers
Refers to technology that captures health information
Health Information Technology
Refers to technology that processes health information
Health Information Technology
Refers to technology that generates health information
Health Information Technology
What time period?
A few experts formed a cadre to adapt computers to healthcare and nursing.
Before 1960s
What time period?
Computers in healthcare were used for administrative and accounting functions.
Before 1960s
What time period?
Use of computer technology began to be explored
1960s
What time period?
Studies were conducted to determine how computer technology could be utilized.
1960s
What time period?
The nurses’ station was viewed as the most appropriate center for the development of computer applications.
1960s
What time period?
The mid___ presented nurses with new opportunities for computer use.
1960s
What time period?
Increased time devoted to documentation and a rise in medication errors prompted the investigation of emerging computer based information systems.
1960s
Hospitals began developing computer based information systems which initially focused on: (1) Physician order entry (2) Results reporting (3) Pharmacy (5) Radiology reports (6) Information for financial and managerial purposes (7) Physiologic monitoring systems in the intensive care units
1970s
What time period? A few systems started to include: (1) Care planning (2) Decision support (3) Interdisciplinary problem lists
1970s
What time period?
Nurses were often involved in implementing systems.
1970s
What time period?
Interest in computers and nursing began to emerge in public and home health and education.
1970s
What time period?
Conferences helped public and home health
nurses:
(1) Understand the importance of nursing data and their relationship to new Medicare and Medicaid legislation.
(2) Provide information on the usefulness of computers for capturing and aggregating home health and public health information.
1970s
What time period?
Hospitals and public health agencies embarked on investigating computers and nursing.
1970s
What time period?
The opportunity to improve education using computer
technology also began.
1970s
What time period?
Early nursing networks helped to expand nursing awareness of computers and the impact HIT could have on practice.
1970s
What time period?
The Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health
implemented the Technicon Medical Information System (TDS) computer system.
1970s
TDS one of the earliest clinical information systems (called _____& ____).
Eclipsys
Allscripts
Was the first system to include nursing practice protocols.
Technicon Medical Information System (TDS)
What time period?
The field of nursing informatics exploded and became visible in the healthcare and nursing
1980s
What time period?
The nursing profession needed to update its practice standards and determine its data standards, vocabularies, and classification schemes that could be used for the computer based patient record systems
1980s
What time period?
Many mainframe healthcare information systems (HISs) emerged with nursing subsystems
1980s
What time period?
The microcomputer or personal computer (PC) emerged during
this period.
1980s
What time period?
The first Nursing Special Interest Group on Computers met for the first time during SCAMC (Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care)
1980s
What time period?
The ANA approved the formation of the Council on
Computer Applications in Nursing (CCAN).
1980s
What time period?
CCAN became a very powerful force in integrating computer applications into the nursing profession.
1980s
The first edition of Essentials of Nursing Informatics was published in _____
1986
What time period?
Legislative activity in the mid
____ paved the way for
electronic health records through the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of …
1990s
1996
What time period?
The complexity of technology, workflow analysis, and regulations shaped new roles in nursing
1990s
What time period?
The ANA recognized nursing informatics as a new nursing specialty separate Scope of Nursing Informatics Practice Standards, and also established a specific credentialing examination for it
1990s
What time period?
The demand for nursing informatics (NI) expertise increased
1990s
What time period?
The ANA developed the Nursing Information and Data Set Evaluation Standards (NIDSEC) to evaluate and Recognize nursing technology rapidly changed in the ____
1990s
What time period?
PCs became smaller
1990s
What time period?
Computer notebooks became affordable
1990s
What time period?
Computers were linked through networks
1990s
What time period?
The Internet became mainstream
1990s
What time period?
The World Wide Web (WWW) increased access to information
1990s
What time period?
The World Wide Web (WWW) increased access to information
1990s
Its purpose is to guide the
development and selection of nursing systems that included
standardized nursing terminologies integrated throughout the
system.
Information systems
What time period?
More healthcare information became digitalized and newer technologies emerged
2000s
In 2004 an Executive Order 13335 (1) Established the _______ for Healthcare Information Technology
Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)
In 2004 an Executive Order 13335 (2) Issued a recommendation calling for all healthcare providers to
adopt interoperable______ by 2014/2015
electronic health records (EHRs)
What time period?
Wireless, point of care, regional database projects, and increased IT solutions proliferated
2000s
What time period?
The use of bar coding and radio
frequency identification (RFID)
emerged as a useful technology
2000s
What time period?
Smaller mobile devices with wireless or Internet access increased access to information for nurses within hospitals and in the community
2000s