Healthcare Information Technology Trends

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Throughout history, technological advancements have appeared for one purpose before finding applications elsewhere that lead to spikes in its usage and development. The internet, for example, was originally developed to share research before becoming a staple of work and entertainment. But technology—new and repurposed—will undoubtedly continue to be a driver of healthcare information. Informaticists often stay tuned to trends to monitor what the next new technology will be or how the next new idea for applying existing technology can benefit outcomes.

In this Discussion, you will reflect on your healthcare organization’s use of technology and offer a technology trend you observe in your environment.

To Prepare:

  • Reflect on the Resources related to digital information tools and technologies.
  • Consider your healthcare organization’s use of healthcare technologies to manage and distribute information.
  • Reflect on current and potential future trends, such as use of social media and mobile applications/telehealth, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled asset tracking, or expert systems/artificial intelligence, and how they may impact nursing practice and healthcare delivery. 

Post a brief description of general healthcare technology trends, particularly related to data/information you have observed in use in your healthcare organization or nursing practice. Describe any potential challenges or risks that may be inherent in the technologies associated with these trends you described. Then, describe at least one potential benefit and one potential risk associated with data safety, legislation, and patient care for the technologies you described. Next, explain which healthcare technology trends you believe are most promising for impacting healthcare technology in nursing practice and explain why. Describe whether this promise will contribute to improvements in patient care outcomes, efficiencies, or data management. Be specific and provide examples.

Describe and discuss the problem with patient transport at AUBMC.

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Goal: Considering multiple indicators to deal with specific processes using evidence-based decision making.

 

1-Describe and discuss the problem with patient transport at AUBMC.

 

2-Should the medical centre engage in a full-blown re-engineering of its patient transport processes? If so how? If not, why not?

 

a. Regardless of your answer in item 2, if you decided to do a re-engineering effort, identify elements that are crucial to the re-engineering effort. Use a bullet-point format and provide only brief explanations.

 

3-How can AUBMC address the stated problems? What performance indicators would you use to measure and deal with its problems?

 

4-How can management assess the situation using the indicators that you suggest in item 3 above? Do you need any additional data? If so, what do you need?

 

5-Translate the recommended KPIs into efficiency improvements. Also, identify the managerial decisions that are the most important ones to deal with the various problems.

 

6-Outline potential solutions to their transportation problem, including any problems with existing indicators.

 

*Use root cause analysis approach as one of the ways to evaluate the problem(s) in this case

Based on the findings, what would be the implications for you as a nurse?

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 Many people are using herbal medications and dietary supplements for the prevention and treatment of medical problems. Review two current research articles about two of these products. Based on the findings, what would be the implications for you as a nurse? What additional research needs to be done in this area? Cite the two references to support your answer.  2 pages

Share the mechanism of action of this medication and hints for monitoring, side effects, and drug interactions of which one should be aware.

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 Select a medication used in evidence-based treatment guidelines for the condition chosen in the first discussion question. Share the mechanism of action of this medication and hints for monitoring, side effects, and drug interactions of which one should be aware. . Include the name of the medication in the subject line so that the medications can be followed.  2 pages -Include your references in APA style.