ESSAY: The Impact of Nursing Informatics on Patient Outcomes and Patient Care Efficiencies

To Prepare:
Review the concepts of technology application as presented in the Resources.
Reflect on how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence may help fortify nursing informatics as a specialty by leading to increased impact on patient outcomes or patient care efficiencies.
In a 4- to 5-page project proposal written to the leadership of your healthcare organization, propose a nursing informatics project for your organization that you advocate to improve patient outcomes or patient-care efficiency. Your project proposal should include the following:
1.Describe the project you propose.
2. Identify the stakeholders impacted by this project.
3. Explain the patient outcome(s) or patient-care efficiencies this project is aimed at improving and explain how this improvement would occur. Be specific and provide examples.
4. Identify the technologies required to implement this project and explain why.
5. Identify the project team (by roles) and explain how you would incorporate the nurse informaticist in the project team.

ANSWER

The Proposed Nursing Informatics Project

            Technological development has seen a lot of government agencies and organizations align their operations to this disruptive change. The health sector is no exception. For instance, the health sector has undergone various development changes, in recent years, and one of the changes is the adoption and application of the EMR (Electronic Medical Records) system in various healthcare institutions/hospitals (Wang et al., 2018). For healthcare institutions/hospitals that have adopted the EMR system technology, their progress and success have been evident, especially in the manner in which technological inventions and innovations are harnessed to keep patient records (CGonigle & Mastrian, 2017). In turn, these organizations have managed to easily retrieve the health history of patients, and diagnose chronic and mild diseases…

Relevant Stakeholders

            Multiple independent entities are characterizing the health system, and they work collaboratively to realize effectiveness and efficiency in providing health care services. Various stakeholders are also involved during the EMR system development as they deliberate on adopting and applying the technology within healthcare. These stakeholders comprise the healthcare organizations…

These are the main stakeholders who are likely to be directly or indirectly impacted by the development and eventual adoption of the EMR technology system. For instance, health care organizations play a critical role in providing the necessary support financially for the EMR system development and adoption (Rutherford, 2008). At the same time, these organizations are mandated to establish a legal basis upon which this technology will be established. Accordingly, health care providers/caregivers play a significant role since they will have first-hand information on the implications of using charts to analyze patient data (Wang et al., 2018). Their involvement will be vital…

The IT team is also impacted as they are mandated to oversee the designing of the technology system, as well as its installation and application/implementation within the health care facilities. Additionally, the management in their respective facilities is directly involved as they oversee the smooth implementation and running of the EMR technology system. The management team is also expected to collaborate with the IT team to ensure the successful functioning of the technology system (CGonigle & Mastrian, 2017). Lastly, …

The Patient Outcome(S), Or Patient-Care Efficiencies This Project Aim to Improve

            The increasing need for technological growth has pushed for the adoption of a digitized system seeking to facilitate effectiveness and efficiency in providing quality care services. One of the expected outcomes this technology seeks to improve is easing diagnosis procedures, which enhances the quality and effectiveness in providing patient-care services (Rutherford, 2008). Since the technology system ensure maintenance costs are minimized, the decision to adopt this technology increases the expenditure on drugs, which means more funds are available to carry out diagnosis and radiological tests, for example, and also improve billing and record services, thus decreasing the possibility of billing errors, in the process.             The EMR technology system is designed to facilitate the successful tracking of patient information for extensive periods by different health care providers. Therefore, it becomes easier for the system to identify these patients, especially those that are due to undergo preventive screening and checkup sessions. This project, therefore, will be able to detect and monitor every patient’s response on such medical procedures as body temperature readings and vaccinations, including examining their blood pressure levels (CGonigle & Mastrian, 2017). Additionally, this improvement would occur by ensuring the tedious paperwork is replaced by the EMR technology system. The improvement is also realized by increasing the level of accuracy. However, even with the introduction of the system, emphasis…