Health Informatics Systems Overview

• The content provided discusses health information systems and related informatics concepts.

Introduction

• The need for nurses to work with computerized data is increasing.
• Technology facilitates creativity and provides health promotion information.

Evolution of Informatics

• The term "informatics" comes from the Russian word "informatika."
• Medical informatics was initially used to describe informatics in healthcare.
• Computer health care applications started in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
• By the late 1960s, systems began including patient diagnosis and care plans.
• In the 1980s, nursing informatics became a nursing specialty.
• Nursing education recognized the need for updates and microcomputers.
• In the 1990s, computer technology was integrated into healthcare settings.
• Policies promoted computers, and nursing informatics was approved by the American Nursing Association.
• Post-2000, clinical information systems became individualized via electronic patient records.
• Mobile computing devices were introduced, and the internet provided new avenues for development.

Information System

• An information system (IS) consists of interrelated elements that collect, manipulate, and disseminate data and information.
• It provides a feedback mechanism to meet an objective.

Purposes of Information Systems

• Enhanced global competitiveness
• Capture market opportunities
• Support corporate strategy
• Enhance worker productivity
• Improve the quality of goods and services

Informatics

• Informatics involves the management of information using cognitive skills and computers.
• It refers to the science of information.
• Informatics is the application of information technologies to optimize information management.

Information Science

• It is an interdisciplinary science focused on the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information.

Medical Informatics

• This field involves the analysis and dissemination of medical data through computers in healthcare and medicine.

Health Informatics

• This includes applying computer and information science to acquisition, processing, interpreting, optimal use, and communication of health-related data.
• The focus is on the patient and the care process.
• A goal is to enhance care quality and efficiency.

Nursing Informatics

• Integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage data and information for nursing practice.
• This includes administration, education, research, and expanding nursing knowledge.
• It's a combination of these sciences to manage nursing data, information, and knowledge for healthcare.
• It supports decision-making for consumers, patients, nurses, and other providers across roles and settings.
• Support is accomplished through information structures, processes, and technology.

Benefits of Informatics to Nursing

• Increased awareness and understanding of nursing and health care issues.
• Enables nurses to make decisions and provide high-quality care.
• Aids in the standardization of nursing language.
• Helps identifying client outcomes.
• Contributes to the development of classification standards for nursing data.
• Saves time and effort.
• Supports more accurate assessments of client situations.
• Facilitates communication and data sharing.
• Makes nursing practice visible.

Benefits of Informatics to Health Care

• Data is retrieved and used effectively.
• Patient safety is improved.
• Storage and retrieval of healthcare records is easier.
• Administrative tasks are more computerized.