ADVANTAGES OF CRITICAL CARE  Maintaining strong relation between

INFORMATION SYSTEM nurses and other healthcare providers

 Continuous coordination of
 Integrate and process physiologic
healthcare professionals
and diagnostic information.
 Synchronization of the decisions
 Creates trends and analysis with
 Streaming of the process
graphical representation of result.
 Effective management of data and
 Offline simulation can be performed.
information
 Clinical decision support system.
 Access to vital patient information. AMBULATORY CARE APPLICATION
 Provides alert feedback and quick
Health care services that are
evaluation of patient condition.
provided for patients who are admitted
overnight to a hospital.

COMMUNITY HEALTH Ambulatory Care Information System

APPLICATION
Provides automated processing of
Public Health data and information, patient monitoring,
and decision support.
 Medical Care
 Disease Treatment Advantages:
 Food and Water Supply  Red-time and easy access to
 Disaster Management and Control patient’s medical records by
 Health Risk Factors health care providers
 Allows more time for
Community Health Information System
comprehensive patient
 Disease Prevention counseling and review
 Disease Treatment  Reduced errors
 Health Promotion  Improved clinical outcome
analysis
COMMUNITY HEALTH
INFORMATICS Advanced Ambulatory Care Information
System
Effective and timely assessment.
Monitoring and tracking the health status of Integrates data to the other data and
populations including identifying and transform into knowledge.
controlling disease outbreaks and epidemics.
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Advantage of Integration of Community
Health information systems captures
Health Systems
the scenario or condition where emergency
 Consistent exchange of response preparedness and immediate response is on
 Disease Tracking prioritized.
 Data and Information sharing Emergency and Response process
 Building Strategies is to STOP the spread of disease, infection
 Early detection and monitoring of epidemics and etc.
disease and sickness
 Control of spread of disease  Submission of data should be done
 National alertness and preparedness on a real-time so that immediate
preparedness will be applied to
unaffected areas or community and
 proper response from the healthcare  Improved documentation
provider are provided  Improved communication
simultaneously.  Improved planning
 Segregation of data should also be  Increased standardization of nursing
captured in the reporting system to practice
eliminate redundancy of data and  Ability to define nursing practice
maintain integrity of results.  Ability to define nursing practice and
associated issues.
Administration Assistive Devices and  Ability to define methods to track
Workplace Technologies patient care delivered, outcomes
Computerized nursing systems on achieved, and revenue generated.
administrative application can help nursing  Enhanced recruitment and retention
manage and use information to fulfill its  Improved evaluation of care
unique data and requirements: provided
 Support the dynamic organization,
 Clinical needs (Patient care, capable of change.
documentation, etc.)
 Strategic needs (Organizational TELEHEALTH
performance support processes, etc.) American Nurses Association (1997)
 Quality Management needs
(Outcome measurement and Delivery of healthcare services or
regulation compliance) activities with time and distance barriers
 Resource and Personnel removed and using technologies such as
Management Needs (Scheduling, telephones, computers, or interactive video
continuing education, staff transmissions.
development)

Examples of Computer Applications for

Administrative information Management:

 Nursing intensity
 Patient Classification System
 Staffing and scheduling system
 Unit activity reports
 Error reports
 Incidental reports
 Infection control
 Training and education
 Financial Planning
 Hospital expansion
 Personnel files
 Quality assurance

Benefits of Using Information Technology

for Nurse Administrators

 Expanded use of nursing staff

resources
 Improved quality of patient care
monitoring