Informatics – The Use of Tech in Providing Reliable Healthcare

Topic 

Informatics – The Use of Tech in Providing Reliable Healthcare

Instructions

Based on your assigned readings and professional literature search, complete the following discussion assignment and post/reply directly to this discussion section. Think about the organization in which you currently work or one in which you have worked in the past and post your response to the following.

  • Could this organization be characterized as highly complex or technologically sophisticated? (Yes, this organization be characterized as highly complex or technologically sophisticated)
  • Would you call it a high reliability organization? (Yes, I would call it a high reliability organization)
  • Discuss this in terms of the new knowledge you have obtained in this unit regarding the impact of Informatics and how Informatics can be used to create a high reliability healthcare?

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Ideally, relying on human input as the only viable means of fulfilling nursing duties could lead to significant underperformances that advertently risks the lives of the patients. Access to the benefits provided through health informatics will create innate changes to the conduct and organization practices in pursuit of excellence of service. Essentially, it improves the expected quality of care while also providing the guidelines for acceptable conduct among nurses while attending top patients. Health informatics embraces the future of nursing by adopting technology as a means of reducing possible errors committed due to limited access to information on patient history, and treatment programs among others. Cipriano and Murphy (2011) explores the future of nursing hinting at an increased roles played by technology in seeking quality in provision of healthcare services.

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