NURSING INFORMATICS

• Scope and purpose of EMR: Focuses on the digital representation of patient records within a single healthcare organization of practice
• Scope and purpose of EHR encompasses a broader view aiming to provide a comprehensive digital record of a patients health information across different healthcare settings and organization
• Interoperability of EMR: confined to theinternal use of a specific healthcate entity and may not readily exchange data with systems outside that organization
• Interoperability of EHR allows seamless sharing of patient data among various healthcare providers, facilitating better coordination of care
• Data accessibility of EMR is accessible within the organization limiting data availability to that specific healthcare provider
• Data accessibility of EHR enables authorized healthcare professional to remotely access patient information from various locations and healthcare facilities
• Patient involvement of EMR is mainly used by healthcare providers with limited patient engagement in accessing or contributing to their records
• Patient involvement in EHR promotes patient engagement through health information access, communication with healthcare provider
• Competensive health information focuses on clinical data related to a patient medical history, diagnoses, treatments and medications within a specific healthcare setting
• Competensive health information of EHR encompasses a diverse health data beyond clinical encounters covering patient demographics, insurance details, lab results, and lifestyle factors
• The stability across organizations in EMR is geared towards the internal workflows and needs of a particular healthcare institution
• Stability across organization in EHR fosters care continuity by facilitating information exchange across healthcare organizations, enhancing a holistic patient heakth perspective
• The HIMSS is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing a global leadership for the optimal use of HIT
• Vision of HIMSS: Advancing the best use of information and management systems for the betterment of health care
• HIMSS Mission: To lead change in the healthcare information and management systems field through knowledge sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation, and community affiliations HIMSS
• HIMSS OBJECTIVES

  1. Promote the vision of EMR systems through concrete examples
  2. Understand and share documented value of EHR systems
  3. Provide visibility and recognition for high impact EHR system
  4. Share successful EHR implementation strategies
  5. Encourages and recognizes excellence in the implementation of EHR system
• The 4 major criteria in the initial assessment of awardees identified by the CPRI workgroup on CPR systems are as followz:

  1. Managmenet
  2. Functionality
  3. Technology
  4. Impact
• Management is the organizational aspects of EHR implementation are as follows:

  1. Strategy
  2. Planning
  3. Project management
  4. Governance
• Functionality refers to the delivered by the EHR to meet the organizational objectives and the needs of patients and end users
• Technology is the technical design and architecture that enable the EHR to deliver the required functionality and performace
• Value is the concrete return on investment as well as intrinsic value derived from the implementation of the EHR
• T— technology

  I— informatics

  G— guiding

  E— education

  R— reform
• TIGER initiative foundation was formed in 2011
• The focus of TIGER is advancing the adoption of informatics in healthcare particularly within the nuraing profession
• The alliance for nursing informatics is the collaboration of organizations that provides a unified voice for nuraing informatics