MODULE 3
Informatics Applications in Evidenced Based nursing
Practice
COMPUTER GENERATED NURSING CARE PLANS
NURSING CARE PLANS
 A set of care guidelines that outline the course
of treatment and the recommended
interventions that should be implemented to
achieve optimal results.
 Care plans are common tools found in case
management systems.
 Two Types:
 Traditional Care Plan – written for each
client
 Standardized Care Plan – based on an
institution’s standards of practice; helps to
provide a high quality of nursing care
Computerized documentation has paved the way for
nurses to use computers to store the client’s database,
add new data, create & revise care plans & document
client progress.
GUIDELINES FOR GOOD DOCUMENTATION AND
REPORTING
 Information about clients
and their care must be
factual.
 A record should contain
Facts
descriptive, objective
information about what a
nurse sees, hears, feels and
smells.
 Information must be
accurate so that health
Accuracy
team members have
confidence in it.
 The information within a
record or a report should
be complete, containing
concise and thorough
Completeness
information about a client’s
care.
 Concise data are easy to
understand
 Ongoing decisions about
care must be based on
Up-to-
currently reported
date/Currentness
information.
 The following should be
included:
a. Vital signs
b. Administration of
medications and
treatments
c. Preparation of
diagnostic tests or
surgery
d. Change in status
e. Admission, transfer,
discharge or death of a
client
f. Treatment for a sudden
change in status
 The nurse communicate
Organization and organized entry in a
logical format or order.
 The nurse should be able to
observe confidential
communication that given
or shared by one person to
Confidentiality
another with trust and
confidence that such
information will not be
disclosed.
USE OF COMPUTERS IN THE NURSING PROCESS TO
GENERATE CARE PLAN
 Increase efficiency and accuracy in all phases of
the nursing process.
 Help in meeting the standards of nursing
practice and documentation
ASSESSMENT
 Collect accurate data (patient health status,
history, chief complaints and other assessment)
 Offers pathway to gather relevant information
 Provides guide questions to gather information
DIAGNOSIS
 Current programs contains standard diagnosis
with associated signs and symptoms as
reference
 Nurse uses clinical judgement to choose
appropriate diagnosis among the suggested
options.
PLANNING
 Contains display of recommended interventions
for selected diagnosis and expected outcomes.
 System (computer) can track outcomes for large
patient populations
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 "CLINICAL PATHWAYS ARE OFTEN PRESENTED IN
IMPLEMENTATION VISUAL OR ALGORITHMIC FORMAT."
 Computer records interventions and patient
information (such as transfer and discharge
instructions)
 Computer generated progress notes can easily
be sorted and printed patient data (medications,
treatment and vital signs)
 Make documentation more efficient and
accurate

EVALUATION
 Computer can record and store observations,
patient's responses to nursing intervention and
the nurses' evaluation
 May also use information from other health
care team members for future actions and
discharge planning
 May use as basis for re-evaluation for outcomes
that has not be achieved.
CLINICAL PATHWAYS AND GUIDELINES
CLINICAL PATHWAYS
 A clinical pathway is a structured plan of care,
used to translate current medical evidence into
a framework of recommendations, at times
tailored to the local healthcare setting. It details
the steps in management and aims to
standardize care and reduce variation for a
specific clinical context (Lawak et. al, 2016).
 A clinical pathway is a method for the patient-
care management of a well-defined group of
patients during a well defined period of time.
 A clinical pathway explicitly states the goals
and key elements of care based on Evidence-
Based Medicine (EBM) guidelines, best practice
and patient expectations by facilitating the
communication, coordinating roles and
sequencing the activities of the multidisciplinary
care team, patient and their relatives.
 Clinical pathways (CPWs) are considered as a
common component in the quest to improve
the quality of health.
 CPWs are used to reduce variation, improve
quality of care and maximize the outcomes for
specific groups of patients.
In a study conducted, the implementation of clinical
pathways in the emergency department and inpatient
settings, has been shown to reduce in-hospital
complications and improve documentation with no
negative effects on cost or length of stay as compared
to usual care.
The AIM of a clinical pathway is to improve the quality
of care, reduce risks, increase patient satisfaction and
increase the efficiency in the use of resources.
CLINICAL GUIDELINES
 Clinical Guidelines are evidenced based
recommendations which are usually generated
from an authority group consisting of experts
in the field and published regularly (Alexander
et. al., 2019).
 Clinical Guidelines are recommendations that
serve as a guide to decisions and provide
criteria for specific practice areas.
 Clinical practice guidelines are informal or
formal rules or guiding principles that a
healthcare provided uses when determining
diagnostic tests and treatment strategies for
individual patients.

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 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLINICAL PATHWAY AND ADVANTAGES OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES 1. Contents pages and/or the full text of journals
can be searched to find articles on a certain
Clinical Pathways Clinical Practice subject.
(CP) Guidelines (CPG) 2. Journal articles can be read on your desktop,
 Implements  Offers explicit laptop or any mobile device.
CPG recommendatio 3. Articles can be emailed to yourself which can
Purpose recommendati ns of clinical downloaded or printed.
on in actual decision-making. 4. The article are always be available, no need to
practice go to a library.
 Charts the  Usually covers 5. Hypertext links allow you to move to different
care to be specific clinical sections within individual journals or articles
Scope given for the circumstances and can link you to related resources on the
entire clinical Internet.
course 6. e Journals can include images and audio-visual
 A group of  Governmental material.
local doctors and non- 7. e Journals can be interactive - you can e-mail
Developers the author or editor with your comments.
and nurses governmental
agencies
 Institution-  Not institution INTEGRATING EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
Use
specific specific  EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE (EBP)
 Designed  No timelines  A core skills necessary to improve nursing
around provided care and enhance the safety of patients.
Timelines  The components of EBP include a
specific
timelines systematic and critical evaluation of the
current literature, the nurses' clinical
 Expected  Do not trace a
expertise and available resources and
intermediate patient's
patients' values and preferences.
patient outcomes
Patient  This information is used to make deliberate
outcomes to
progress clinical decisions based on theory and
evaluate a
relevant research to guide patient care.
patient's
progress

USE OF e JOURNALS
 An electronic journal is a periodical publication
which is published in electronic format, usually
on the Internet.
 An electronic journal are journals which are
published online.
 The articles which are published within journals
are written by subject experts, and many
undergo a rigorous quality check called peer
review.
 Journal articles are considered as:
 reliable
 conform to high academic standards
 good to use in assignments.

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ELECTRONIC DATABASES TO SUPPORT EBP
 PubMed
 A free resource supporting the search and
retrieval of biomedical and life sciences
literature with the aim of improving
health–both globally and personally.
 contains more than 32 million citations and
abstracts of biomedical literature
 Available to the public online since 1996
 PubMed was developed and is maintained
by the National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI)
 Does not provide full text access to articles
but can be access through link out
functionality
 An effective way to use PubMed as a search
engine is through Medical Subject Headings
(MeSH) - a thesarus of controlled-
vocabulary terms
 Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
Literature (CINAHL)
 A database that indexes a comprehensive
body of healthcare literature.
 It indexes publications from several of the
prominent nursing associations and from
many publishers.
 It is used by nurses and other medical
personnel, and social workers, counselors,
and physical therapists.
 Provides full text for hundreds of journals
indexed in the CINAHL database

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 MODULE 4
POLICIES, GUIDELINES AND LAWS IN NURSING
INFORMATICS
Health Insurance Portalibity and Accountability Act of
1996 (HIPAA)
 A federal law that applies to healthcare
providers, health plans, and healthcare
clearinghouses that conduct transactions
electronically .
 Signed into a law by Pres. Bill Clinton into 1996
addressing the need for standards to regulate
and safeguard health information and making
provisions for health insurance coverage for
employed persons who change jobs.
 A law that was developed to :
 protect electronic health information and
implement reasonable and appropriate
administrative safeguards that established
the foundation for a covered entity's
security program.
 protect the privacy and security of certain
health information and promote efficiency
in the health care industry through the use
of standardized electronic transaction.
4 KEY ASPECTS OF HIPAA
A. PRIVACY OF HEALTH INFORMATION
 HIPAA restricts the individuals who are able to
view healthcare data and who healthcare data
can be shared with without first obtaining
permission from patients.
 Access to health data is restricted to healthcare
employees who need to view health and
personal information in order to provide
healthcare services and perform any
administration duties.
 Permission must be obtained from patients
before their personal health information (PHI)
can be shared with companies for reasons such
as research and marketing.
 Personal/Protected Health Information (PHI) -
the demographic information, medical histories,
test and laboratory results, mental health
conditions, insurance information and other
data that a healthcare professional collects to
identify an individual and determine
appropriate care.
HIPAA LISTS 18 DIFFERENT INFORMATION IDENTIFIERS
THAT, WHEN PAIRED WITH HEALTH INFORMATION.
1. name;
2. address (anything smaller than a state);
3. dates (except years) related to an individual --
birthdate, admission date, etc.;
4. phone number;
5. fax number;
6. email address;
7. Social Security number;
8. medical record number;
9. health plan beneficiary number;
10. account number;
11. certificate or license number;
12. vehicle identifiers, such as serial numbers,
license plate numbers;
13. device identifiers and serial numbers;
14. web URL;
15. Internet Protocol (IP) address;
16. biometric IDs, such as a fingerprint or voice
print;
17. full-face photographs and other photos of
identifying characteristics; and
18. any other unique identifying characteristic.
B. SECURITY OF HEALTH DATA
 HIPAA requires healthcare organizations to
implement safeguards to ensure any health
data created, stored, maintained, or
transmitted is kept secure at all times.
 Those controls include:
 administrative measures
 physical security for paper records and
electronic devices that store health data
 technical controls such as encryption, anti-
virus software, and firewalls
C. NOTIFICATION OF BREACHES OF MEDICAL RECORDS
 HIPAA requires healthcare organizations and
their business associates to issue notifications
(60 days) to patients when health data is
compromised or stolen.
 Allows breach victims to take action to protect
their identities and reduce the risk of becoming
a victim of fraud
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D. RIGHT TO OBTAIN COPIES OF HEALTHCARE DATA
 HIPAA gives patients the right to obtain copies
of the health information created or held by
healthcare organizations. By obtaining copies of
heath data patients can take a much more
active role in their own healthcare.
 By obtaining copies of health information,
patients can easily share that information with
any healthcare organizations, including research
organizations.
 One other important reason for obtaining
copies of health data is to check health records
for errors.
COMMON ORGANIZATIONAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES
TO COMPLY WITH HIPAA
1 Provision of HIPAA training for all employees
2 Employees sign a disclosure contract
acknowledging understanding of privacy
requirements
3 Conduct annual HIPAA reviews and updated for
employees
4 Require paper documents with PHI to be
shredded
5 Limit access to areas holding documents with
PHI (locked doors, cabinets, use of key cards
6 Require password to access computers;
Passwords needs to be changed regularly
7 Forbid leaving patient information displayed on
computers
8 Forbid sharing of passwords
9 Install firewalls to protect servers
10 Forbid access to PHI by caregivers not involved
in care
11 Monitor access to electronic medical records for
inappropriate access
12 Limit information on whiteboards to the
minimum
13 Place general information whiteboards in
designated area (least visible to not involved in
care)
DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012
Republic Act 10173
(Data Privacy Act of 2012)
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the
“Data Privacy Act of 2012” or Republic Act 10173
“AN ACT PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL
INFORMATION IN INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS IN THE GOVERNMENT
AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR, CREATING FOR THIS
PURPOSE A NATIONAL PRIVACY COMMISSION, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES “
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. – It is the policy of the
State to protect the fundamental human right of privacy,
of communication while ensuring free flow of
information to promote innovation and growth. The
State recognizes the vital role of information and
communications technology in nation-building and its
inherent obligation to ensure that personal information
in information and communications systems in the
government and in the private sector are secured and
protected.
SEC. 4. Scope of DPA
 The DPA applies to the processing of all types of
personal information and to any natural and
juridical person, in the country and even abroad,
subject to certain qualifications.
THE NATIONAL PRIVACY COMMISSION
 a commission created by this act which is
mandated to administer and implement this law
SEC. 7. Functions of the National Privacy Commission.
 To administer and implement the provisions of
this Act,
 To monitor and ensure compliance of the
country with international standards set for
data protection
 Rule-making, advisory, public education,
investigations and complaints, and enforcement
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KEY ROLES IN THE DATA PRIVACY ACT
 Data Subjects
 Refers to an individual whose, sensitive
personal, or privileged information is
processed personal
 Personal Information Controller (PIC)
 Controls the processing of personal data, or
instructs another to process personal data
on its behalf.
 Personal Information Processor (PIP)
 Organization or individual whom a personal
information controller may outsource or
instruct the processing of personal data
pertaining to a data subject
 Data Protection Officer (DPO)
 Responsible for the overall management of
compliance to DPA
 National Privacy Commission
 Independent body mandated to administer
and implement the DPA of 2012, and to
monitor and ensure compliance of the
country with international standards set for
personal data protection

RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT POTENTIAL BREACHES AND SECURITY INCIDENTS

 Right to be informed
 Right to object
 Right to access
 Right to data portability
 Right to correct (rectification)
 Right to file a complaint
 Right to damages
 Right to erasure or blocking
 "The data subject shall have the right to
suspend, withdraw or order the blocking,
removal or destruction of his or her
personal data from the personal
information controller’s filing system." (DPA
of 2012, IRR Sec. 34)
 Transmissibility of Rights
 "The lawful heirs and assigns of the data
subject may invoke the rights of the data
subject to which he or she is an heir or an
assignee, at any time after the death of the
data subject, or when the data subject is
incapacitated or incapable of exercising the
rights" (DPA of 2012, IRR Sec. 35)
INVOLVING PERSONAL INFORMATION
 Bank – Consent form
 Hospital and School Records - Storage and
Disposal Policy
 Student transferred - Without Consent
 Clinical record of a student to disclose with her
parents - Consent
 List of top students/passers - Consent
 Cedula in Malls – Disposal Policy Improper
Disposal
 Security issues in buildings – logbook
 Use of re-cycled papers – Disposal Policy/Access
due to negligence
 Use of CCTV – Privacy Issues
 Use of USB/CD/Personal laptop–Encryption
issue

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ACCESS CONTROL AND SECURITY POLICY
 Personal Records stolen from home of an
employee – Security
 Viewing of Student Records in Public – Physical
Security
 Raffle stubs – Privacy Notice/Storage and
Disposal Policy
 Universities and Colleges websites with weak
authentication
 Photocopiers re-sold without wiping the hard
drives
 Password hacked/revealed
 Accidentally sent an email attachment –
Unauthorized Disclosure
NPC’s FIVE PILLARS OF COMPLIANCE
Pillar 1: Appointment of Data Protection Officer (DPO)
 Mandated by the NPC through the
implementation of the Republic Act No. 10173
(Data Privacy Act of 2012)
 A Data Protection Officer (DPO) is required to be
appointed by the organization to ensure the
protection of your personal data collection and
processing.
 A DPO is beneficial to your company due to the
fact that all companies in the Philippines are now
being mandated to comply with the said law.
Pillar 2: Conduct A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
 A Privacy Impact Assessment or PIA is a process
used to assess and manage privacy impacts in
planned or existing systems technology, programs,
processes or activities.
 It is a tool for identifying and assessing privacy
risks throughout the development life cycle of a
program or system.
 A PIA states what personally identifiable
information (PII) is collected and explains how
that information is maintained, how it will be
protected and how it will be shared.
Pillar 3: Write your Privacy Management Program and
Privacy Manual
 Privacy Management Program (PMP)
 A PMP is a holistic approach to privacy and
data security protection, important for all
agencies, companies or other organization
involved in processing of personal data.
 The PMP will reduce the risks of privacy
breaches its impact to the organization.
Effective implementation of the PMP will
help you in identifying the root cause of the
problems in relation to data privacy.
Pillar 4: Write your Privacy Management Program and
Privacy Manual
 Implement your Privacy Data Protection (PDP)
measures
 Implementing data privacy governance to carry
out identified security measures.
Pillar 5: Regularly Exercise your Breach Reporting
Procedure
 The Commission and affected data subjects
shall be notified by the PIC within seventy-two
(72) hours upon knowledge of, or when there is
reasonable belief by the personal information
controllers (PIC) or personal information
processors (PIP) that, a personal data breach
requiring notification has occurred.
 There should be training and simulations, not
just with the technical team but also with the
data process owners.
TYPES OF BREACH
1. Availability Breach - Due to loss, accidental or
unlawful destruction of personal data
2. Confidentiality Breach - Due to the
unauthorized disclosure of, or access to,
personal data
3. Integrity Breach - Due to alteration of personal
data
4. Unlawful Processing/Violation of Privacy -
Unauthorized processing, processing for
unauthorized purposes, violation of privacy
rights
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NURSES GUIDELINES TO AVOID DATA BREACH
1. Never breach a patient’s Information.
2. If you are unsure about disclosing a patient’s
information, seek guidance from the hospital’s
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
3. Know by heart your hospital’s Privacy Manual
by heart
4. Never see information about a patient for
whom you are not providing care
5. Always maintain your patient’s information
confidential.

“Do not COLLECT if you cannot PROTECT” - National

Privacy Commission

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 Nursing Informatics – MODULE 5
Application of Health Informatics
CLINICAL PRACTICE
APPLICATION OF HEALTH INFORMATICS IN CLINICAL
PRACTICE
Electronic Health Record
 Contains a systematic documentation of a
client's health status and health care in a
secured digital format.
 A collection of rich data stored a database that
that possess capacity for customization that can
be adapted to the needs of the patient, health
care provider and health care organization
which can shared with multiple providers across
health care setting.
FEATURES OF A HOSPITAL BASED ELECTRONIC HEALTH
RECORD
1. Charting
2. Medication Management
3. Scheduling
4. Labs
5. Referrals
6. Bill Coding
7. Reporting/Surveillance
8. Health Maintenance
BENEFITS OF EHR USE
1. Point of care entry allow the nurse to capture
the activities of care as they occur.
2. Documentation of care is legible which lessen
the time wasted on trying to learn what has
been written by the HCP.
3. Rapid access to patient-related data
4. Data is available using remote workstations
5. Interoperability and data portability
6. Evidences such as clinical practice guidelines in
are embedded in the HER
CHALLENGERS OF EHR USE
1. Change in workflow patterns
2. System and system-related expense
3. Performance and Security Concerns
eHealth
 An emerging field of medical informatics which
refers to the organization and delivery of health
services and information using the Web and
related technology.
 Health care initiatives and practice supported
electronic or digital media used usually for
patients and family education where
information is communicated electronically.
APPLICATIONS OF eHealth
 Communicating with a patient through a
teleconference, email, SMS
 Recording, retrieving, and mining data in an
electronic medical record (EMR/EHR)
 Providing patient teachings with the aid of
electronic tools
EFFECTS OF eHealth
1. Represents optimism by allowing patients and
health workers to look into various options.
2. Enables the patient to received tailored
information
3. Empowers the patients to open a new types of
relationship.
TELEMEDICINE
 the use of information exchange from one site
to another via electronic communications to
improve patient’s health status.
 health services delivered by
telecommunications-ready tools, supervised or
directed by a physician
ADMINISTRATION
ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLINICAL INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
I. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
 Support client care by managing financial and
demographic information and providing
reporting capabilities which includes client
management, financial, payroll, human
resources and quality assurance system.
 Contains primarily administrative and financial
data
 Used to support the management functions and
general operations of the health care
organization
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 A. PATIENT ADMINISTRATION SYSTEMS
 Admission, Discharge, and Transfer
Registration -system is used to collect and
store client identification and demographic
data that are verified and updated at the
time of each visit
 Scheduling -allows a health care
organization to schedule clients and
resources efficiently.
 Patient billing or accounts receivable
 Utilization management
B. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
 Financial systems manage the expenses and
revenue for providing healthcare.
 Financial systems often interface to share
information with materials management,
staffing, and billing systems to balance the
financial impact of these resources within
an organization.
 Accounts payable/Ledger
 Materials Management
 Payroll and Human Resource Systems
track employee time and attendance,
credentials, performance evaluations,
and payroll compensation information.
 Staff Scheduling systems coordinate
staff, services, equipment, and
allocation of patient beds.
II. CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
 Large computerized database management
systems that support several types of activities
that may include physician order entry, result
retrieval, documentation, and decision support
 Clinicians use these systems to access data that
are used to plan, implement, evaluate case.
A. NURSING INFORMATION SYSTEM
 are computer systems that manage clinical
data from a variety of healthcare
environments and made available in a
timely and orderly fashion to aid nurses in
improving patient care.
B. COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ENTRY ORDER
ENTRY SYSTEMS
 Refers to the process of providers entering
and sending treatment instructions –
including medication, laboratory, and
radiology orders – via a computer
application rather than paper, fax, or
telephone.
 Order entry systems provide major
safeguards by ensuring that physician
orders are legible and complete.
C. LABORATORY SYSTEMS
 Laboratory Information Systems were one
of the first systems ever used in healthcare.
 Systems which includes report on blood,
body fluid and tissue samples along with
biological specimens that are collected at
the bedside and received in a central
laboratory.
D. RADIOLOGY SYSTEMS
 Radiology Information System (RIS) are
systems schedule, result, and store
information as it relates to diagnostic
radiology procedures.
 The benefit of RIS and picture archiving and
communication system (PACS) is their
ability to assist in diagnosing and storing
vital patient care support data.
E. PHARMACY SYSTEM
 These systems typically allow pharmacists
to order, manage and dispense medications
for a facility.
EDUCATION
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY USED IN EDUCATION
TYPES OF ONLINE EDUCATION
A. LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)
 A software product which was originally
designed for a corporate and government
training division as a tool to access workers
skills for job positions and also provide
specific training for individuals or groups
(Saba, 2015).
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 FEATURES OF LMS B. CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Features Functionality Tools  A database of learning objects which
1. Synchronous  Utilize  Chat includes items that are developed for
communication virtual office  Whiteboard instructions use.
hours  Video  Allows course developers to create learning
 Online Conference objects such as videos, modules,
tutoring and assessments or any materials used for
training online learning.
sessions  Allows course developers to create learning
 Real-time objects to develop, modify and create
communicati materials which can be integrated with
on course or learning management systems.
 Student-led
learning C. MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOC)
 Visual  A model for delivering free learning content
presentation and usually does not require pre-requisites
of concepts other than internet and internet access.
2. Asynchronous  Allows user  Discussion  MOOC provide participants with course
communication to read and Forums
materials that are usually used in a
reply to  Email
traditional education setting such as
others  Journal
lectures, videos and study materials.
 Peer
 MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible
interaction
way to learn for career advancement,
 Self or group
reflections
college preparation, eLearning and training.
3. Collaborative  Promote  Wiki
TYPES OF COURSE DELIVERY
projects group  Blogs
collaboratio 1. Hybrid - A combination of online delivery and
development
n on site conduct of classes
 Sharing of 2. Web-enhanced - Face to face classes use web-
information based technology to facilitate self-studying
 Self- 3. Fully online - All content and communication
reflections are conducted entirely online and no face-to-
4. Testing and  Allows  Online tests face component
grading formative  Self-
and assessment TRENDS IN NURSING INFORMATICS
summative  Survey
assessment  Polls 1. MOBILE COMPUTING
 Informal test  A technology that allows transmission of data,
questions voice and video via a computer or any other
 Vote on wireless enabled device without having to be
issues connected to a fixed physical link.
5. Social media  Allows social  Twitter  Examples:
integration connections  Facebook  Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)
 Collaboratio  YouTube  Smart Phones
n  RSS (Real  Tablets
 Building Simple  Laptop computers
community Syndication)  Computer on Wheels (COW) or Workstation
Feeds on Wheels (WOW)

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2. WIRELESS PATIENT MONITORING
 Technologies that enable remote surveillance of
patient vital functions through the use of
internally and externally located patient devices.
3. MOBILE SYSTEM ACCESS
 Mobile technologies that enable remote/virtual
access to current clinical systems such as
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Picture
Archiving and Communication System (PACS)
 Examples:
 Websites
 portal
 mobile apps
4. MEDICAL DEVICES (to include Wearables)
 Mobile and/or wireless enabled technologies
that capture and track key care compliance and
disease management area.
5. VIRTUAL CONSULTATION
 Remote connectivity and multimedia solutions
that enable virtual care consultation, education,
and therapy
6. AGING IN PLACE
 Remote technologies that enable clinically
monitored independent living for aging
populations.
 Examples:
 Personal Emergency Response Systems
(PERS)
 Video Consultations
 Motion/Activity monitoring
 Fall detection, Aggregation and Transport
7. PHOTOVOICE
 A qualitative method of community-based
research that uses photographs to encourage
knowledge and transformative change,
especially among marginalized groups.
 Patient-participants are asked to capture and
share photographs that relate to a particular
condition, as well as their sentiments regarding
it.
8. SMART BED
 Uses advanced medical technology at the point
of care, connecting important information
wirelessly, seamlessly, and directly to care
providers.
 Smart beds can monitor a patient's BP,
temperature, heartbeat, oxygen levels, and
more, and deliver it to a central node which
can be accessed remotely.
9. CREATING VIRTUAL ORGANS FROM MEDICAL
IMAGING (3D Printing)
 Creating digital copies of patients‘ organs to
preplan device implantations and assess if there
is improved function or outcomes in a virtual
environment before a patient enters a cath lab
or operating room.
10. USE OF HIGH FIDELITY SIMULATION IN NURSING
EDUCATION
 HFS seeks to address the cognitive, affective,
and psychomotor domains of active learning
(Bastable, 2008)
 It has noted that simulation effectively provides
a safe environment for learning and applying
essential skills for nursing practice.
11. THE RISE OF AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY
IN HEALTHCARE
 Aids in neuro-surgical planning and help
educate patients on what will happen during
their procedures in true 3-D using the patient's
own imaging scans.
12. ROBOTICS (Surgery and Invasive Procedures)
 Robotics is the engineering science and
technology of robots, and their design,
manufacture, application, and structural
disposition