Speech Recognition Technology for Increasing Nursing Documentation Efficiency
Speech Recognition Technology (SRT) has increased in prevalence as a solution for providers to improve their documentation efficiency. Because nursing documentation consists primarily of discrete data entry into flowsheets, SRT has not been widely implemented for nurses (Blackley et al., 2019). N...
Enhanced Telemedicine in a Mobile Integrated Health Program to Improve Healthcare Access During COVID-19 Pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, primary care and specialist visits declined. During the pandemic, Baltimore City Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) continued with targeted home visits among complex patients to help reduce hospital readmission rates. Many provider offices and specialists were close...
Improving Electronic Patient Portal Use in Groups with Low Utilization at a Family Medicine Practice
Electronic patient portals benefit health outcomes; yet, they are underutilized in certain patient sub-populations including adolescents, adults over age 65, racial/ethnic minorities, and non-English-speaking patients.
Using an Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interview (ACASI) to Screen Older Adults for Fall Risk in an Outpatient Primary Care Setting
Older adults face an increased risk for falling and resulting injury due to age-related physiological changes (Sharif et al., 2018). Effective fall risk screening programs in the primary care setting may be a promising approach to reduce the incidence of falls within this population (Siegrist et...
Paving the way: HIMSS NYS Chapter Spring 2022 Virtual Nursing Symposium
Nursing informatics encompasses a rapidly expanding field in healthcare. The Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) attracts nursing professionals by offering educational advancement, networking and HIMSS certification opportunities.
Supporting Cybersecurity Awareness in October and all Year Long!
This year, the theme for Cybersecurity Awareness month is “See Yourself in Cyber” which emphasizes the importance of individual people and how they protect themselves as they engage with various technologies.
Predictive Medicine: Advancing Healthcare Through Better Data Governance
Healthcare is facing unsustainable challenges in today’s economic environment and Steve Holloway from Signify Research noted several drivers in his post-Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference wrap-up: global staff shortages, fewer physicians, increasing workloads and rising pat...
Clinical Data Usability: A Critical Step in the Shift to Value-Based Care
Those organizations that do not have an informed and forward-looking clinical data quality strategy could incur avoidable financial and reputational risk as public reporting of quality, health equity and utilization become more heavily dependent on access to robust, high-quality and usable clinic...
Clinical Risk Groups: Turning Data into Insight to Improve Patient Readmission Rates
In addition to handling the daily demands of healthcare, organisations are faced with a major reoccurring challenge: patient readmissions.
Nurses Month Industry Perspectives: Nurse Informaticists Make a Difference
To impact digital health, nursing informaticists are leveraging healthcare technology innovations across all spectrums of healthcare, including the use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI).
Future of Nursing: Nursing Informatics Industry Perspectives
We connected with four nursing informaticists to get their perspectives on the barriers and challenges the workforce is experiencing.
Nursing Impact on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Part 1
According to the report, growing evidence supports an association between inequities in both health and access to healthcare, and social determinants of health (SDOH).