Medical informatics

Nursing informatics is a specialty involving knowledge and technology. According to McGonigle and Mastrian, The Foundation of Knowledge model is a “framework for examining the dynamic interrelationships among data, information, and knowledge used to meet the needs of health care delivery systems, organizations, patients and nurses” (2015). The Foundation of Knowledge model includes acquired knowledge, disseminated knowledge, processed knowledge and generated knowledge. Nursing informatics and…

Research Topic: The use of the internet in Nursing Informatics Source #1 Hersh (2009) Source #2 Thede(2003) Source #3 Guenther (2006) Comments Article title/ Details (Enter title of journal article or name of textbook under the relevant source) A Stimulus to Define Informatics and Health Information Technology Informatics and Technology in Professional Nursing Practice Trends in Publication of Nursing Informatics Research Methodology is 1 of these 3 listed below:…

The main goal of medical record is to document systematically appropriate medical records or health information about patients, as well as diagnosis and treatment of diseases, those who have experienced domestic violence, victims of elder and child abuse, workplace accident victims, as well as personal injury petitioners. Recently medical records have been radically transformed, the traditional paper medical records such as handwritten or typed has become electronically enhanced. This has been…

Combined Career Panelist Questions 1. What are the common roles/job positions that you see Health/Biomedical Informatics graduates attaining? What recommendation do you have for last semester graduates, more specifically, how can they traverse into the industry? 2. Are there are any top three to five skills that are a commodity in the informatics realm? 3. What advice do you have for a graduate interviewing for a technically inclined role? 4. What technical skills do you see as wanted by an…

is on the rise and it is always changing and updating. The healthcare system is making their way to convert all their medical records electronically; although this can be a good transition, it can also pose a problem. Electronic health records have not been perfected and there are still risks for breaches and potentially a big possibility of disclosing patient’s important medical and personal records. On September 8, 2011, Nemours, a Children’s Health System reported missing three…

Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society [HIMSS], 2016). Information technology has changed today’s health care dramatically for the better. The field of nursing informatics has allowed nurses and physicians to utilize new information…

Ms. Marta Greene, RHIT, CCS is employed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and is tasked with the project of compiling medical health information for astronauts in a research database. Ms. Greene’s background includes a Health Information Technology degree, RHIT and CCS certifications as well as 10 years of experience in the Health Information Management (HIM) field as an outpatient ER coder and an inpatient coder at a large university hospital. Her skill set is very…

Help Make The Medical Industry More Efficient & Effective: Healthcare Technology Degree If you have a passion for technology, but would still like a career in the healthcare industry to help people then a healthcare technology degree is worth serious consideration. While doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals take care of patients, they also generate numerous medical reports that are vital to the process. In the past this information was stored as files and forms inside folders, but…

Health informatics is "the interdisciplinary study of the design, development, adoption and application of IT-based innovations in healthcare services delivery, management and planning"(nih.gov). The advent of information technology in healthcare domain has improved the quality and efficiency of the healthcare delivery system. The field of health informatics is closely related to various domains of healthcare like hospitals, insurance…

their locality ("Sutter," 2017). In Northern California, Sutter Health acquired the Roseville Community Hospital in 1993, but as the community grew, the organization eventually built a bigger affiliate and opened its doors 1997 as Sutter Roseville Medical Center (SRMC) ("SRMC," 2017). I chose to write about this organization, specifically the SRMC, because I have been an employee of this company since March of 2005, therefore, I have witnessed the hospital’s transition…