Stud Health Technol Inform
August 2024
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. Timely health services are fundamental to the appropriate prevention, identification, care and rehabilitation of these diseases. This study aimed to explore the potential of using electronic health records as a data source to help identify health system -related delays in care processes of cardiac patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCommon data models provide a standardized way to represent data used in federated learning tasks. The aim of this review was to explore the development and use of common data models to harmonize electronic health record data in health research. The data search yielded 724 records, of which 19 were included for this study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInternational collaboration is crucial in the field of nursing informatics research to enhance our ability to conduct globally relevant research that informs policy and practice. In this case study we describe how we have established an international research collaboration to evaluate nurses' experiences of technology use during the pandemic. We firstly describe how the collaboration was created and the successes associated with our work, before highlighting the facilitators to make an international collaboration work.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study investigates the evolving landscape of nursing informatics by conducting a follow-up survey initiated by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Students and Emerging Professionals (SEP) Nursing Informatics (NI) group in 2015 and 2019. The participants were asked to describe what they thought should be done in their institutions and countries to advance nursing informatics in the next 5-10 years. For this paper, responses in English acquired by December 2023 were analysed using inductive content analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth informatics has significantly advanced global technology, yet challenges persist in public health and rural nursing in Mexico due to social inequalities, limited technology access, and suboptimal infrastructure, compounded by the absence of nurse informaticians as viable career options. Overcoming these barriers necessitates international collaboration, empowering Mexican nurses to contribute to universal health access and advocate for health equity. Interventions must extend beyond nursing curricula to existing workforces, ensuring they can address the needs of vulnerable populations in Mexico.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOperations management of a hospital unit is a shared activity involving nursing and medical professionals, characterized by suddenly changing situations, constant interruptions, and ad hoc decision-making. Previous studies have explored the informational needs affecting decision-making, but only limited information has been collected regarding factors affecting information management related to the daily operations of hospital units. The aim of this study was to describe the experiences of nursing and medical professionals of information management in the daily operations of hospital units.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The application of large language models across commercial and consumer contexts has grown exponentially in recent years. However, a gap exists in the literature on how large language models can support nursing practice, education, and research. This study aimed to synthesize the existing literature on current and potential uses of large language models across the nursing profession.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProviding patient centered care is a crucial element of high quality care. It can be defined as a responsive way of caring for and empowering patients, embodying compassion, empathy, and responsiveness to the patient's needs. The aim of this study was to assess the potential of using EHRs as information source in the development of tools for assessing PCC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the representation of environmental concepts associated with health impacts in standardized clinical terminologies.
Methods: This study used a descriptive approach with methods informed by a procedural framework for standardized clinical terminology mapping. The United Nations Global Indicator Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets was used as the source document for concept extraction.
Objective: Climate change, an underlying risk driver of natural disasters, threatens the environmental sustainability, planetary health, and sustainable development goals. Incorporating disaster-related health impacts into electronic health records helps to comprehend their impact on populations, clinicians, and healthcare systems. This study aims to: (1) map the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and International Science Council (UNDRR-ISC) Hazard Information Profiles to SNOMED CT International, a clinical terminology used by clinicians, to manage patients and provide healthcare services; and (2) to determine the extent of clinical terminologies available to capture disaster-related events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffectiveness is a key element of high quality health services. The aim of this pilot study was to explore the potential of electronic health records (EHR) as an information source for assessing the effectiveness of nursing care by investigating the appearance of nursing processes in the documentation of care. Deductive and inductive content analysis were used in a manual annotation of ten patients' EHRs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Integration of environmentally sustainable digital health interventions requires robust evaluation of their carbon emission life-cycle before implementation in healthcare. This scoping review surveys the evidence on available environmental assessment frameworks, methods, and tools to evaluate the carbon footprint of digital health interventions for environmentally sustainable healthcare.
Materials And Methods: Medline (Ovid), Embase (Ovid).
Aim: The aim of this study is to explore the potential of using electronic health records for assessment of nursing care quality through nursing-sensitive indicators in acute cardiac care.
Background: Nursing care quality is a multifaceted phenomenon, making a holistic assessment of it difficult. Quality assessment systems in acute cardiac care units could benefit from big data-based solutions that automatically extract and help interpret data from electronic health records.
Stud Health Technol Inform
May 2022
The World Health Organization defines, that high quality health services should be effective, safe, people-centered, timely, equitable, integrated, and effective. This requires systematic quality assessment. The aim of this scoping review was to explore how electronic health records (EHRs) have been used to assess quality of health services using the WHO criteria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Research on technologies based on artificial intelligence in healthcare has increased during the last decade, with applications showing great potential in assisting and improving care. However, introducing these technologies into nursing can raise concerns related to data bias in the context of training algorithms and potential implications for certain populations. Little evidence exists in the extant literature regarding the efficacious application of many artificial intelligence -based health technologies used in healthcare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTechnological development has enabled Artificial Intelligence (AI) to better support health care delivery and nursing. The need for nurses to be involved and steer the development and implementation of AI in health care is recognized. A 60-minute scientific debate is organized to explore if AI will replace nursing.
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