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The current advancement of technology has already became an important factor in healthcare. As a matter of fact, nurses have already been involved in the purchasing, designing, and even implementing of various information technology programs in health care. Nursing informatics is commonly known as the combination of three sciences namely nursing science, information science, and computer science. This branch of science is specifically used by nurses for the management and analysis of data into knowledge (Murphy, 2010). Despite the presence of nursing informatics as a branch of science for three decades, there are still numerous definitions for it. Some ...

Record keeping is a systematic documentation of patient’s history in a particular health care for the purpose of future reference and follow up program. This helps in monitoring patient’s progress in their effort to attaining and restoring their health to normality (Nelson & Staggers, 2013). It also provides a crucial tool for researchers on certain diseases and therefore they can improve services after learning the behavior of certain disease development. These records need to be kept in the safest and secure way possible There many way of keeping record in hospitals depending on the level of technology available in the ...

Nursing informatics has become a key component of the healthcare system and this has been attributed to the emergence of new technological advances which have assured of a more stable healthcare systems linked from education, to research to practice through simple connectivity (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Nurses today are required to understand the role of informatics and more importantly engage directly with nursing informatics with a view to improving the care outcomes across all clinical settings. One of the major facilitations that have occurred in relation to nursing informatics is the ability to provide the nursing student or practicing with as much content ...

Introduction

Direct patient care is a care that is provided to patients by staff members of a hospital. Technology has improved work done and made it more efficient in giving patient’s records. There are several technologies being used in hospitals in order to serve patients efficiently. This paper will look at two forms of technologies used in direct patient care discussing when they are being used, their value, and lastly, strengths and drawbacks of each technology.

Health care information Technology

Health care Information Technology for patients is the use of electronic medical records whereby information for patients are processed and kept. These records include past ...

The application of information technology (IT) in healthcare is becoming a standard in practice. With the introduction of electronic health information systems, such as portable electronic point-of-care devices or electronic health records (EHRs), several issues were raised around interoperability issues. Without clear standards, different vendors and service providers cannot provide cross-platform compatibility, and that could place patient safety at stake, so the nurses have been consistently requesting the implementation of interoperability standards to improve sharing data across different systems (Bolton, Gassert, & Cipriano, 2008). The lack of interoperability standards also impacts nursing education. Because using IT systems requires a significant amount ...