C468 INFORMATION AND APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY 2022

C468 INFORMATION AND APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY 2022 • Data gatherer. In this role the nurse collects clinical data such as vital signs. • Information user. The nurse interprets and structures clinical data, such as a client’s report of experienced pain, into information that can then be used to aid clinical decision making and patient monitoring over time. Quality assurance and infection control activities exemplify other ways in which nurses use information to detect patterns. • Knowledge user. This role is seen when individual patient data are compared with existing nursing knowledge • Knowledge builder. Nurses display this role when they aggregate clinical data and show patterns across patients that serve to create new knowledge or can be interpreted within the context of existing nursing knowledge.  Informatics is the science and art of turning data into information.  Medical informatics refers to the application of informatics to all of the healthcare disciplines as well as to the practice of medicine.  Some sources distinguish medical informatics from health informatics in the following manner. Medical informatics focuses primarily upon information technologies that involve patient care and medical decision making while health informatics refers to the use of educational technology for healthcare clients or the general public. TABLE 1–3 Some Important Definitions in Informatics 1. Informatics. The science and art of turning data into information. 2. Medical informatics. May be used to refer to the application of information science and technology to acquire, process, organize, interpret, store, use, and communicate medical data in all of its forms in medical education, practice and research, patient care, and health management; the term may also refer more broadly to the application of informatics to all of the healthcare disciplines as well as the practice of medicine. 3. Health informatics. The application of computer and information science in all basic and applied biomedical sciences to facilitate the acquisition, processing, interpretation, optimal use, and communication of health-related data. The focus is the patient and the process of care, and the goal is to enhance the quality and efficiency of care provided. 4. Bioinformatics. The application of computer and IT to the management of biological information including the development of databases and algorithms to facilitate research. 5. Consumer health informatics. Study of patient use of online information and communication to improve health outcomes and decisions. 6. Dental informatics. Computer and information sciences to improve dental practice, research, education, and management. 7. Clinical health informatics. Multidisciplinary field that focuses on the enhancement of clinical information management at the point of healthcare through improvement of information processes, implementation of clinical information systems, and the use and evaluation of CDS tools as a means to improve the effectiveness, quality, and value of the services rendered. 8. Public health informatics. Application of information and computer science and technology to public health practice, research, and learning. Nursing informatics may be broadly defined as the use of information and computer technology to support all aspects of nursing practice, including direct delivery of care, administration, education, and research. Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science in identifying, collecting, processing, and managing data and information to support nursing practice, administration, education, research, and expansion of nursing knowledge. Nursing informatics supports the practice of all nursing specialties in all sites and settings whether at the basic or advanced level. The practice includes the development of applications, tools, processes, and structures that assist nurses with the management of data in taking care of patients or in supporting their practice of nursing. (p. 3 Information literacy has a broader meaning. Information literacy is defined as the ability to recognize when information is needed as well as the skills to find, evaluate, and use needed information effectively Question The Affordable Care Act of 2010 requires acute care centers to have electronic health records by ________, and requires physician offices to have EHRs by ________. 2015; 2016 2017; 2018. 2014; 2015 .(Correct answer) 2016; 2017 Question The application of computer and information technology to the management of biological information, including the development of databases and algorithms to facilitate research, is known as ________. health informatics