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.

iCHART: the next big thing

The Apple world is full of fun speculation. Apple fans expect innovative new products. So let me introduce you to iChart! Apple’s upcoming killer Enterprise product.A new  application allows doctors to keep their patients’ lives in their pockets in addition to their own.Caretools calls its iChart app a "personal medical assistant," which stores everything from patient data to charts and lists of medications in a streamlined, organized fashion.

To ensure diagnostic procedures aren’t outdated, the application regularly updates with new medical data pulled from healthcare networks.Though theoretically such an application could exist on other smartphones, tech-savvy doctors view the application for medical imaging given its visual, intuitive interface and reasonably powerful processor.

iChart is a flip chart on steroids. It borrows the best from the past, building on the lowly paper flip chart and the easy sharing built into Electronic Whiteboards. It redefine the future of presentations. iChart breaks the monotony of the PowerPoint / Keynote presentations with live customized notations (by the presenter), audience participation, and simply pinch and zoom sorting. Finally, the flexibility of transparencies again. And yet so much more….. Airplay, video conferencing, and dual or multiscreen presentation possibilities. iChart is the future for any boardroom presentation, training room discussion; presenting the data in a format more adaptive and free flowing, enabling the presenter to work the displays in  a multi-modal fashion. Like brainstorming? Like post-its? Like enabling an audience? 

So would you want an iChart in your business? How would you use it?

Will iChart kill other telepresence / video conferencing products with it’s FaceTime built in? What might it mean for networked meetings? What special apps could it be loaded with? How might these be used in store? For promotions?

What would the real screen specs be? How much would it weigh? How low could the cost be? It appears the real cost will be in the screen?