Describe how nurses use healthcare technologies to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
Health information technology (HIT) facilitates communication, education, documentation, and evaluation in nursing care. The simple, popular ways of communication that nurses use are emails and instant messages (IMs). It is also important for information sharing to be done in a secure fashion using encryption and password protection to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements (Gephart & Effken, 2013). Although non-clinical nurses tend to communicate with one another in this way than clinical nurses, emails and IMs promote the efficiency of work. Applications are available …show more content…
To accelerate the use of health IT, in 2009 Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Buntin, Burke, Hoaglin, & Blumenthal, 2011). Hospitals and other facilities use their own systems to monitor the quality of care. For example, skilled nurse facilities use Minimum Data Set (MDS), a programmed system, to calculate the triggered areas of patients based on the data input from the clinical assessments. The MDS is a tool that the management team uses to monitor and improve the quality of care by targeting antecedents of the triggered areas. Another example of how health care technology and information management are related to the quality and safety of patient care is Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information (HEDIS). This is a tool used by more than 90 percent of America’s health plans to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service. Humana is one of many companies that use this tool to measure the company’s service and performance. HEDIS results are increasingly used to track year-to-year performance, which encourages companies to improve the quality of
Health information technology (HIT) facilitates communication, education, documentation, and evaluation in nursing care. The simple, popular ways of communication that nurses use are emails and instant messages (IMs). It is also important for information sharing to be done in a secure fashion using encryption and password protection to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements (Gephart & Effken, 2013). Although non-clinical nurses tend to communicate with one another in this way than clinical nurses, emails and IMs promote the efficiency of work. Applications are available …show more content…
To accelerate the use of health IT, in 2009 Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Buntin, Burke, Hoaglin, & Blumenthal, 2011). Hospitals and other facilities use their own systems to monitor the quality of care. For example, skilled nurse facilities use Minimum Data Set (MDS), a programmed system, to calculate the triggered areas of patients based on the data input from the clinical assessments. The MDS is a tool that the management team uses to monitor and improve the quality of care by targeting antecedents of the triggered areas. Another example of how health care technology and information management are related to the quality and safety of patient care is Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information (HEDIS). This is a tool used by more than 90 percent of America’s health plans to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service. Humana is one of many companies that use this tool to measure the company’s service and performance. HEDIS results are increasingly used to track year-to-year performance, which encourages companies to improve the quality of