PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH INFORMATICS

1. Unit 2 : PRINCIPLES OF
HEALTH INFORMATICS
KRISHNA GANDHI

2. TERMINOLOGIES
• Health informatics: To assist physicians in providing better
healthcare, health informatics is the process of collecting,
analysing, and managing health data as well as the use of medical
theories in conjunction with health information technology
systems.
• Nursing informatics: Nursing informatics includes all interactions
between nurses and health IT systems. It manages patient records
online and delegated the management of transitions of care to
their nursing teams in their electronic health records.

3. • • Public health informatics: The use of computer
science, information, and technology in public
health management, including disease
surveillance, prevention, readiness, andhealth
education.• Health information technology:
Medical practitioners and other healthcare
organizations employ technological tools to
collect, store, analyzes, retrieve, and share
information.

4. "Nursing informatics" refers to the application
of computer science to the nursing profession
and data processing.

5. NEED OF NURSING INFORMATICS
• Nursing informatics supports the decision-making of patients and nurses.
• Nursing informatics makes the clinical practice more effective by using the nursing
process.
• Nursing informatics can identify a need and demand for nurses and healthcare
settings.
• Nursing informatics helps in updating the knowledge and skills of nurses by proving
continued nursing education to maintain competence and adheres to the overall
education requirements of the profession.
• Nursing informatics defines the competencies for the area of specialty nursing
practice.
• Nursing informatics provides mechanisms for supporting, reviewing, and
disseminating research to support its knowledge base and evidence-based practice.
• Nursing informatics has defined educational criteria for specialty preparation in
nursing. It has continuing education programs or other mechanisms for nurses in the
specialty.

6. Examine both financial and clinical data
Promote the delivery of evidence-based, high-quality healthcare
Present nursing information in standardized languages
Enhance care continuity
Support and make it easier to find resources and references
Strengthen connections between medical professionals and patients
Encourage cost-cutting measures and productivity targets
Restructure the clinical workflow
Support the management of change
Use technology to maintain nursing job processes
Encourage real multidisciplinary treatment
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7. APPLICATION OF NURSING INFORMATICS
•NURSING PRACTICE
DOCUMENTATION
MONITORING
DEVICES
DEVELOPING
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G CARE PLANS
RETRIEVAL OF
PREVIOUS
RECORDS AND
IMAGING
ACESS TO
CURRENT
PRACTICE
STANDARDS

8. NURSING ADMINISTRATION
IN STAFF
SCHEDULING SYSTEM
IN COST AND
BUDGET ANALYSIS
MONITORING OF
TRENDS WITH
QUALITY &
STATISFACTION DATA

9. LIMITATIONS
CHANCES OF LOSING DATA
LESS PHYSICAL INTERACTION WITH STUDENTS
LESS INTERACTION WITH PATIENT
TIME CONSUMING
OVER DEPENDENCY
LACK OF CONFIDENTIALITY

10. USE OF DATA, INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN
HEALTHCARE PRACTICE
• The use of information and knowledge in healthcare can be categorized into four main
streams such as:
• 1. Health and education: In the digital age, people can quickly find, access, learn from, and
communicate with others. Education is now open, available, and accessible to everyone.
Public awareness of communicable diseases, health status, preventative measures, and
different modern diagnostic and treatment techniques is fostered via health education.
This provides consumers the option to select the top medical facilities and practitioners to
turn to for care so they can live a healthy life.
• 2. Hospital management system: Hospital management to successfully guide the
organization. This aids management in overcoming the difficulties the hospital is now
experiencing. It aids management in enhancing patient security and satisfaction, staying
current with cutting-edge technology, being knowledgeable about population health and
statistics, and staying on top of legislative mandates. The workplace can be strengthened in
first place.

11. • 3. Healthcare research: Healthcare research aids in identifying
potential disease eradication and disease reduction strategies. New
technologies in diagnosis can speed up the process and cut costs.
This provides therapy in advance, saving the lives of numerous
people. The existing healthcare systems can be abolished and new
models for efficient, high-quality treatment can be created through
knowledge and information.
• 4. Health data management: Electronic medical data storage is the
primary application of knowledge and information in hospitals. This
makes it easier to access the information. Data can be provided to
the patient or to the doctors for consultation thanks to knowledge
and information. The patient can access their own medical records at
anytime and anyplace.

12. Applied Examples of Knowledge and
Information in Healthcare
• Nanotechnology:
Nanotechnology is slowly but steadily making its way toward contributing to
the medical sector of our country. Scientists have developed Nanobots that
are capable of unclogging arteries and preventing cases of heart attacks.
Researchers are in the process of developing nanoparticles that will be able to
cure neurological disorders in a better way. Nanotechnology is an area that has
a lot of scope for further providing neck-breaking technology in this field.
• Artificial intelligence:
It is no secret that humans as a species are the most intelligent and analytical
on this planet. We are superior to any other organism when it comes to
processing data in a logical and systematic matter. The only limitation we face
is in terms of the amount of information we can process over a given amount
of time. That is where the importance of Artificial Intelligence (Al) can be seen.
Some of the applications of Al in healthcare are treatment design, virtual
nurses, drug creation, health monitoring.

13. • Real time data: We are living in a world where every news and information
comes to us 'live'. In today's day and age where everything is real time, many
start-ups have come in the healthcare sector that are focusing on providing
live status of your appointments onyour phone, queue management for
hospitals/ clinics, urgent online bookings in case of emergencies, door-to-
door delivery of medicines, medical reports on your phone straight from the
lab, etc. This has made a lot of people's life easier than it used to be before. In
addition to this, it also saves up a lot of time.
• Robotics: Advantage of having technology is that it makes our life much more
efficient and easy. The entering of robotics in healthcare sector is one of the
most advance move that humans have initiated in terms of medicine. There
are robotic surgeries these days that are performed without the presence of a
physician. Robotic assistance is also there at some places where robots help in
medical equipment and telehealth. They also help in monitoring procedures.
Robots are also performing surgeries these days in delicate areas of our body,
such as human brain, etc.

14. • Virtual reality: Virtual reality in the healthcare sector have
made significant developments in conditions, such as autism,
lazy eye, chronic pain, etc. A lot of people associate virtual reality
only with cinema but virtual reality has a lot more applications
than that. Many labs use virtual reality to treat chronic pain.
Virtual reality is also used for speedy recovery from fatal brain
injuries. It also helps in medical education as a lot of institutes
use it to give students live experience by streaming surgical
operations, etc. This revolutionary solution is safe and affordable
at the same time.