NR_361 Week 5 Discussion Question, Trends in Informatics

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Week 5: Trends in Informatics (graded Select one of the following trends and discuss your understanding of this trend in healthcare and its potential impact on your practice as a nurse. What are th... e legal, privacy, and ethical considerations of this trend? Nanotechnology Consumer health informatics (CHI) Telehealth (or telenursing)/virtual healthcare Social media healthcare applications Health-focused wearable technology eHealth Hi Professor and Class! I chose to talk about the telehealth trend in healthcare because this is something that I have personally seen used. Hebda and Czar states that “Telehealth is the use of telecommunications technologies and electronic information to exchange healthcare information and to provide and support services such as long-distance clinical healthcare to clients” (2012). Our reading this week states, “The reality is that people with chronic disease or acute illnesses who live in a remote area, or who are near to care sites but are economically or socially remote, can all receive home care, home monitoring and education for self-management from a nurse using telehealth technologies and strategies” (Bartz, 2014). I live in a very rural area and we only have 1 hospital every 40-50 miles. Therefore, we must utilize telehealth nursing many times. At our local hospital, it is very small. We do not have specialists and certainly do not have access to high end electronics. Of course, we have a cardiologist, pulmonologist and surgeon, but that’s pretty much it. We have a telehealth device that we call Elvis, not sure why we did though, that allowed us to communicate visually and verbally with the Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC. Elvis allowed us to get in touch with a neurologist at MUSC and we could take the device into the patient’s room and the physician could do an assessment with the patient without being there. This has been great for small communities. References Bartz, C. C. (2014). Leadership strategies for improved nursing synergy between informatics and telehealth. Studies In Health Technology And Informatics, 201227-23 [Show More]

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