Health/Nursing Informatics & Technology

Table of Content

HEALTH / NURSING INFORMATICS & TECHNOLOGY

1. Introduction to computer applications for patient care delivery system and nursing practice

• Use of computers in teaching, learning, research and nursing practice
• Windows, MS office: Word, Excel, Power Point
• Internet Literature search Statistical packages
• Hospital management information system

1. Principles of Health Informatics

• Health informatics needs, objectives and limitations
• Use of data, information and knowledge for more effective healthcare and better health

III. Information Systems in Healthcare

• Introduction to the role and architecture of information systems in modern healthcare environments
• Clinical Information System (CIS)/Hospital information System (HIS)

1. Shared Care & Electronic Health Records

• Challenges of capturing rich patient histories in a computable form
• Latest global developments and standards to enable lifelong electronic health records to be integrated from disparate system

1. Patient Safety & Clinical Risk

• Relationship between patient safety and informatics
• Function and application of the risk management process

1. Clinical Knowledge & Decision Making

• Role of knowledge management in improving decision-making in both the clinical and policy contexts
• Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine, Clinical Terms, SNOMED CT to ICD-10-CM Map, standardized nursing terminologies (NANDA, NOC), Omaha system.

VII. eHealth: Patients and the Internet

• Use of information and communication technology to improve or enable personal and public healthcare
• Introduction to public health informatics and role of nurses

VIII. Using Information in Healthcare Management

• Components of Nursing Information system(NIS)
• Evaluation, analysis and presentation of healthcare data to inform decisions in the management of health-care organizations

1. Information Law & Governance in Clinical Practice

• Ethical-legal issues pertaining to healthcare information in contemporary clinical practice
• Ethical-legal issues related to digital health applied to nursing

1. Healthcare Quality & Evidence Based Practice

• Use of scientific evidence in improving the quality of healthcare and technical and professional informatics standard