NURSING

INFORMATION
SYSTEM
 Benefits of Health Information System

Organized & Coordinated Treatment Process

Health Information System is a technology-driven

system that makes the process of sharing
protected health information (PHI) between
organizations and providers really hassle-free.
Also, because of this system, patients are able to
get seamless and coordinated treatment from
healthcare providers.
 Benefits of Health Information System

Improved Patient Safety

As you get easy access to patients’ data with the
help of Health Information Systems, you can save all
the information and share across multiple
databases to improve the safety of the patients.
Even you can get alert notification whenever there
are any issues related to patients’ health.
 Benefits of Health Information System

Betterment in Patient Care

By collecting and saving patients’ information,
including diagnosis reports, medical history, allergy
reactions, vaccinations, treatment information plans,
test results, etc., Health Information Systems provide
the healthcare providers a complete and orderly
framework that helps them interact with their patients
in a better way and eventually deliver care to them in a
more efficient way.
 Benefits of Health Information System

Hassle-free Process of Performance Analysis

Using Health Information Systems enables multiple
avenues through which you can access your staff
performance, analysis patient care, check the
efficiency and stability of your organization. HIS
reduces the paperwork and makes every record
computerized. You can take any decision related to
your staff based on their skill sets. Also, you can take
decisions after focusing on previous performance
details.
 Benefits of Health Information System

Transfiguration in Clinical Procedures

With HIS, you can address any kind of stressed
situations for your patients. You can have a virtual
view of patient flow and what every individual
patient experiences during their meeting with health
care providers, administrative personnel, lab
technician and financial assistants. Careful attention
to this helps you spot the areas where you can bring
betterment.
 Benefits of Health Information System

Circumvention of Medical Errors

As Health Information Systems maintains less
paperwork and makes everything computerized
and automated, you get the error-free reports and
information. As a result, various medication errors
can be avoided and patients’ safety can be
ensured.
 Benefits of Health Information System
Instant & Seamless Accessibility
to Patients’ Details
According to a report, published by World Health
Organization (WHO), “The Health Information
System collects data from the health sector and
other relevant sectors, analyses the data and
ensures their overall quality, relevance and
timeliness, and converts data into information for
health-related decision-making.”
 Benefits of Health Information System

Minimized Operational Expense

Health Information Systems Enable health
organizations to assign resources in a  planned
manner and save potentially remarkable amounts
of expenses, energy, and supplies. You can make
your healthcare service better for your patients
while saving lots of money.
 Benefits of Health Information System

Saving of Time

Other than saving money, Health Information

Systems help in saving time as well. By making all the
patients’ information computerized and personal
activities automated, HIS saves a significant amount
of time in making patient care coordinated and
hospital management seamless.
 Benefits of Health Information System

Improved Patient Satisfaction

Health Information Systems don’t only make the
daily job of healthcare providers and administration
easy but also improves the satisfaction level of the
patients. The patients can rely on your service, and
when you become a reliable name in your sector,
you get more patients and get a great return on
investment.
Patient Portal
The patient portal is an important feature of the
Health Information System. It is a platform, similar
to the electronic health record, but what makes it
different is that through these patients are capable
of having secure online access to their medical
records, scheduling doctor appointment,
communicating with the doctor, check medical bills
and processing payment online.
Medical Billing
Online medical billing feature manages all the
billing tasks in less amount of time than usual.
Gone are the days when hospitals used to spend a
major amount of time in managing all the
appointments and billings. Now with medical billing
feature, patients’ billing, insurance details, patient
tracking, and payment process – everything can be
handled with efficiency.
Patient Scheduling
Just like the patient portal, with patient scheduling
patients can schedule their own appointments by
simply logging into their respective accounts. This
way they neither have to wait in line in front of the
doctor’s chamber or clinic nor need to call the clinic
again and again to make an appointment.
ePrescribing
This software in Health Information Systems speeds
up the complete prescription process, usually done
by the staff members of the medical practitioner’s
office. They can send and fill the prescriptions of
every patient to the pharmacies via online. Also,
they can track the entire process and take any
action if needed.
Remote Patient Monitoring
This is another promising feature of Health
Information Systems, enabling the access of patients’
details easy, helping care providers deliver good
health care to the patients and minimizing severe
condition expenses. Remote Patient Monitoring
(RPM) is really useful for patients who are suffering
from chronic health issues. Doctors use the
information collected through RPM for monitoring
patients’ health status.
Master Patient Index
Master Patient Index is quite popular across many
hospitals and large organizations of medical
practices. With this technology, one needs to feed
the patients’ information once. After that, it gets
connected to multiple databases and as a result, this
data can be useful in the future for other lab tests
and clinical departments.
The main functions that can be found in current ward
nursing information systems are:

Care planning
Nursing Clinical Record
Care evaluation
Discharge planning
Workload assessment (prospective and or retrospective)
Personnel management
Staff rostering
Attendance recording
Skill mix management
Costing
Budget management
These functions are typically grouped into
Three main modules:
– Patient care
– Workload assessment
– Rostering with associated personnel
functionality
What is Nursing Information System?
It refers to the application of computer science and
information science to manage operations involved
in the nursing profession.
Its Advantages

It helps improved nurses’ documentation.

Proper clinical documentation is very significant in
every health care system, and without NIS
providing an easy way to record all the necessary
data, in a systematic and uniform way, and then it
would be difficult for the institution and staff that
would affect patient care and services.
Its Advantages

It helps in overall better staff management.

Having Nursing Information System helps
provides an efficient way to handle administrative
activities such as workload management,
maintaining staff records, as well as scheduling
shifts, among others.
Its Advantages
It helps in having an efficient decision-making.
There are features of NIS which enable
information management and decision-making
through active and passive systems. Passive
systems are able to organize and format the data
according to preset parameters, and provide
parameter-specific information, as and when
required. Active systems on the other hand, are a
step advanced and suggest diagnoses on the basis
of predefined criteria applied to the patient
information.
Its Advantages

It is a way to enhance synchronization.

In nursing, patient data generated in all units is
always essential and significant for the decision-
making in any unit of a medical facility. This can be
better achieved through the integration of NIS with
other clinical systems, which enables fast and easy
access of the documented information to all the
appropriate units.
Web 2.0, Blogs, Wikis

Web 2.0 technologies provide members of

the health community – health professionals,
health consumers, health carers and medical
and health science students - with new and
innovative ways to create, disseminate and
share information both individually and
collaboratively.
Web 2.0, Blogs, Wikis
It is a movement that is beginning to
transform the nature of health care,
particularly in the US. In this paper we
present and explain four Web 2.0
technologies - blogs, wikis, podcasts, and
social networks - and look at how these
technologies are currently being used by
health professionals.
Healthcare team members:

– Doctors
– Physician Assistants
– Nurses
– Pharmacists
– Dentists
Healthcare team members:

– Technologists and technicians

– Therapists and rehabilitation specialists
– Emotional, social and spiritual support
providers
– Administrative and support staff
– Community health workers and patient
navigators