AUTOMATED HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

Automation in healthcare began in the late 1960s and early 1970s with systems designed to meet specific needs within health care. In most institutions financial applications developed first. These included payroll, billing, and general ledger.

AUTOMATED HIS is a comprehensive, integrated information system designed to manage the medical, administrative, financial and legal aspects of a hospital and its service processing. Traditional approaches encompass paper-based information processing as well as resident work position and mobile data acquisition and presentation.New studies emerge each day pointing to the ability for Electronic Health Record to improve patient quality of care and the practice of medicine.

 New technologies that are invented today are  helpful not just to ease a certain work but also to improve the quality of life of our patients. As a student, I am very thankful because I was born with these type of technology that will further enhance my skills and capabilities as a human being.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TELENURSING

Nurses are a central part of the use of technologies in health care. As such, telenursing is not a new role for nurses. There is evidence of existence of the role of telenurses for more than 25 years. In fact, any nurse who has provided guidance, education, or lab results over the telephone has taken part in telenursing. However, telenursing can also include more sophisticated systems than the telephone, such as two-way audio and video systems, Internet, satellite, and other communication systems.


TELENURSING refers to the use of telecommunications and information technology for providing nursing services in health care whenever a large physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses.
 
 
Efficient telephone advice nursing is one way of managing limited resources in healthcare. It is cost efficient, timesaving and increases patients’ ability to self-care. In many Western countries telenursing is an expanding part of healthcare. Telenursing work is complex and knowledge-intensive. The nurses should be able to work independently, make decisions about the caller’s need for further care, give advice on self-care or refer the caller to the appropriate source of help. When telenurses triage callers’ conditions, their assessments are based on verbal communication. This demands a high level of communication skills and the ability to listen. One of the major problems for telenurses is that they cannot see the patients. They feel considerable responsibility and they fear making wrong decisions. Furthermore, telenurses may perceive the contact with patients in telephone advice nursing as a conflict between being a care provider and a gatekeeper.