Question

Informatics Specialists

How does the current health IT structure at your institution support or hinder the effectiveness of informatics specialists in nursing, medicine, and other disciplines?

Answer 1

Role of Infromatics Specialist: The role of informatic specialist provide the information or create the information in the form of digital communication by the computer software applications,

Globally, every hospital adopting the information technology to enhance their business growth and easy to communicate information among health care workers like between Heath care workers and investigations department.

Nursing: The nursing informatics are useful from appointment schedule to discharge,

- patient appointment and easy access to patient old records and identify previous drug reactions if any,

- easy to access Laboratory and radiological investigations,

- helps to notify unforeseen complications and immediately inform to physician office,

- give the information and conduct Health awareness programmes during medical days that are world heart day and world cancer day etc, in local communities,schools and CMEs,

- maintain electronic health records for data preservation and data access.

Medicine : The current Health IT structure helps for the health care professionals in terms of sharing scientific knowledge among their physician world,

- if coming to inistitutional usage, easy to access patient clinical data and previous Hx of patient, easily access patient reports and mainly time saving, which provides the help for more patients to treat,

- Inter departmental communication helps for the client information eg: pts having multiple systemic complications.

Other disciplines: Patient appointment, patient lab reports, radiology evaluation and insurance claims or billing, management of staff, create board for patient feedback and helps for advertising.

Summary: The Health IT structure is play vital role for organisations growth and effectiveness of each discipline. In nursing helps for data access, opd management and inpatient management and conduct awareness programmes and maintain electronic health records. In medicine the doctors they can share their scientific knowledge among the doctors and easily communicate between internal departments and get data in emergencies which helps to save time and as well as life of patient, other disciplines the IT management helps to maintain entire inistitute in terms of schedule of appointments, employment management and branding and claims of insurance etc.