In: Nursing
how does the current health IT structure at your institution support or hinder the effectiveness of informatics in nursing, medicine, and other disciplines?
Answer:
The current health IT structure helps institution to function effectively in various ways such as in nursing informatics ,medicine and other disciplines like clinical bioinformatics,consumer health informatics and so on.Nursing informatics helps to render effective and better patient care.Otherthan that it helps in effective management and use of patient health care information,which further improve health care by multidisciplinary action.Another important tool is telemedicine,which helps patient to directly contact the health care professional in case of a need. In the field of medicine it helps to improve the treatment modalities and enable clinicians to review and record the changes that happened.Analyse and refine clinical processes.in other fields it helps to gather and collect date and to provide statistics .For example,the recent pandemic-COVID 19,other fields of medicine gather and collects data regarding number of people affected,improvement in treatment modalities,rate of morbidity and so on.Doctors use this tool now for online consultation as well. The benefits of health IT in the field of nursing,medicine and other disciplinary are innumerable.