IT-HEALTH-N (LEC) SYNCHRNOUS CLASS HANDOUTS WEEK 1 (JAN 22 – 27, 2024)

NURSING INFORMATICS

4 Concepts Converge

Nursing Informatics
• A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science and information science to manage and
communicate data information and knowledge in Nursing practice.

Tenets of Nursing informatics (ANA)

• Distinct specialty practice and body of knowledge
• Includes both clinical and non-clinical
• Supports nurses to improve quality of care and welfare of health care consumers
• Focus is delivering right information to right person at the right time

Technology in Healthcare

Digitalization of
Unsustainable
Health and
Rise of Costs
knowledge

Rapid evolution
Of science and
medicine

Digital Literacy
• Ability to effectively and critically use digital technology to navigate, evaluate and create information
Bit → Smallest unit of data
Byte → String of bits used to represent a character, digit or symbol. Contains 8 bits.
Default → Setting used by the computer unless otherwise.

Toggle
• Switch from one mode of operation to another
• E.g Show / Hide mode
Update
• Install the latest patches for
an application or device driver.

Upgrade
• Enhance a piece of hardware or to
obtain latest version of a software program.

Supercomputer
• Fastest, most expensive and most powerful type of computers.
• 1st Supercomputer CDC 6600
• World’s fastest: Summit by IBM (As of June 2018)
→ Will be used to identify Genetic predisposition to cancer and other genetic
predisposition.
Server → Computer that controls access to the software and hardware.

Mainframe (Enterprise Server)

• Large computer that accommodates hundreds
of users simultaneously.

Microcomputer → “Personal Computer / Desktops”

Laptop → “Notebooks”, Integrates monitor, keyboard and mouse
Netbooks → Ultraportable laptops

Personal Digital Assistants (PDA)

• Similar PC functions
• Being replaced by Smartphones.

Smartphones → iPhone and Android phones

Tablets → Smaller than laptop, bigger than smartphones

Keyboard
• Input device for typing data into the computer.
• Kinds
 1. Wired

2. Wired, ergonomic

3. Laptop

4. Virtual Keyboard (projected on a flat surface)

Mouse
• Access menu or function using a button.
• Kinds:
1. Trackball Computer Mouse 3. Wireless 5. Wired
2. Pointing stick 4. Touchpad
Touchscreen
• Allows the user to enter commands or actions by
pressing specific places on a special screen with a finger.

Gaming input devices

• E.g. Nintendo Wii
→ An exercise sporty game.

Light Pen
• Light sensitive pen
• Used in Construction of Electronic signature

Digital Camera
• Take photographs and upload them in a computer.
• Eliminates need for Film and Film development.

Video Camera
• Capture live, real-time images.

Radio-frequency identification
• “RFID”
• Used in Tracking passports
Scanner
• Input device that converts character or graphic
patterns into digital data.
• 2 Types:
1.) Image readers
2.) Barcode readers

Motherboard
• “System board”
• Main circuit board of the system unit.

Chip
• Contains entire processing unit.
• Semiconducting material (silicon)

Memory
• Semiconductor storage that resides generally of motherboard.
• RAM
→ Random Access Memory
→ Stores data that the computer needs to use temporarily.

Ports → Highway that lead into, out of and around the computers
Universal Serial Bus
• “USB”
• Supports fast data transport
• Kinds:
1. Remove cap
2. Slide switch
3. Swivel drive

Power Supply Box

• Converts the power available at the wall socket
to the power necessary to run the computer.

Monitor
• Display graphic image from
the video output of a computer
• Currently LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)

Resolution → Number of horizontal and vertical pixels (dots) found on the screen More pixel on the screen,
the sharper the image will be.
Printers types

1. Laser printers
→ Most expensive printer type
→ High quality print, fast and little noise

2. Inkjet printer
 → Reasonably price
→ Fire droplets of ink and may require
multiple ink cartridges.

3. Thermal printer
→ Presses heated pins against
special paper to produce image

4. Dot matrix printer

→ Uses pins impacting an
ink ribbon to print.
→ Outdated & very slow

Speakers
→ For production of high-quality sounds.

Data Projectors
→ Displays graphic presentations to an audience.

Interactive Whiteboard
→ Display devices that connect to a computer

SMART TV
→ Connected TV’s and has
computer like applications

Secure Digital (SD) Cards

→ Portable device cards
→ Vary in size (mini, micro and standard)

Surge Protector
→ Device that sits between the electrical outlet and
the computer power supply source.

Network
→Collection of computers and other hardware devices.
→Types:
1. LAN → Local Area Network
→ Distance limitation (e.g. Building)
2. WLAN → Do not use wires for communication between the server and the client
computer or mobile devices
 → Includes Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity)

Cable Modem
→ Device that connects to the network using cables

Wireless Modem
→ “Mobile broadband modem”

Bandwidth → Amount of data that can travel over a communication channel at one time
Broadband → Ability to transmit multiple signals at the same time.

Medical Coding
→ Code Set
o Group of code used for encoding data elements such as terms, medical, concepts and diseases.
→ Used in Diagnosis, Treatment and Procedure and for reimbursement purposes.
→ Certified Professional Coder (CPC)
o Certified by the American Academy of Professional Coders

International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11)

→ International standard for systematic recording, reporting, analysis, interpretation and comparison of
mortality and morbidity data.
→ Adopted: 25 May 2019