Nursing Informatics Practice Applications: Care Delivery

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Write a workflow analysis summary of no more than 1500 words (5 pages, not including workflow diagrams) in length, following proper APA format. This summary should detail your proposed new healthcare technology system. The summary should describe how your new information technology could address one or more of the workflow problems identified in your organization/department.

Make sure to not only identify what the information technology is, but also how it will improve workflow and clinical or administrative outcomes. In addition, this assignment requires you to include workflow diagrams. Using the flowchart symbols within Microsoft PowerPoint (or other process mapping software), develop two flowcharts: one of the current state workflow prior to your new solution and another representing the future state, post implementation. These charts should be embedded into your workflow analysis summary in the appropriate logical position.

Think about issues/problems related to workflow from a clinician or patient perspective in an applicable department or organization and most importantly, a potential technology solution to correct this issue. This can be a project you are currently working on or a future project or, if necessary, a virtual project.

The paper should be written on Clinical Communications

  • Do mobile solutions/advanced hardware solutions exist that could eliminate the need for pagers, personal cell phones, or hospital cell phones? What is one area of focus that could be studied here? (e.g., communication from nurse to provider)
  • Do we need more advanced or secure messaging? What does the current state look like and what would the future state look like post implementation of a new system?

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Running head: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

New Healthcare Information Technology System
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
New Healthcare Information Technology System

Introduction
With the ever advancing and improving technology, the information system in hospitals
is changing too. Healthcare facilities are now adopting the new information technology systems,
which support the management of health information across systems that are computerized.
Additionally, the new information technology system supports and ensures that the health
information exchange process is secure and safe from unauthorized personnel (Denecke et al.,
2015).
Among the changes that the new information technology system has brought in to the
provision of healthcare is the workflow model in the clinical setting. A workflow is how tasks
are set and the process of undertaking them, the resources and personnel needed to accomplish
the tasks. Gone are the days that the health care facilities followed the clinician-oriented
workflow model. Most are adopting and shifting to the new model, the patient-oriented
workflow model.
The application of clinician-oriented workflow model has issues and disadvantages. First,
it focuses on a specific person’s tasks or jobs instead of cooperative tasks which is significant in
the provision of healthcare. Using the clinician-oriented workflow model, therefore, does not
sufficiently show the care provided to the patient.
Additionally, the use of clinician-oriented workflow only captures the effect of individual
work and their roles. This can result in local optimization. It may improve only the work of one
discipline, say a physician’s job, while increasing another’s workload, say the workload of the

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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nurse. This necessitated the adoption of patient-orientation workflow model in which the overall
effect of health information technology on institutional processes is captured.
Patient-oriented workflow model gives the correct and true flow of the work view. It defines the
delivery and provision of healthcare from the patient’s view and perspective.
The patient-oriented workflow involves activities from different discipline workers who
are responsible...


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