Forbes
“Mobile devices are proving instrumental for a growing number of healthcare professionals. Smartphones and tablets are progressing beyond ways for doctors and nurses to check in during a busy day, and becoming part of the very fabric of healthcare delivery.
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Eileen Shepherd, Nursing Times
“The Queen’s Nursing Institute has launched a new drive to encourage district nurses to make the best use of new communications technology such as telehealth systems. A report published by the institute said some district nursing teams had already made significant changes to their practice as a result of new technology but others lagged behind.
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Goran SF. Critical Care Nurse, 32(1)
The tele-intensive care unit (tele-ICU) uses sophisticated telemedicine technology and a remote team of critical care experts, including nurses, to provide continuous monitoring, assessment, and interventional services to a large number of patients across multiple ICUs. This new practice environment offers experienced critical care nurses an opportunity for career and knowledge expansion while reducing some of the physical and emotional risks encountered at the bedside.
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Anne Zieger, Hospital EMR and EHR
“When the triage nurse asked my kid to step on the scale, she wrote the result on her hand. Then she measured his height. She recorded that on her palm, as well. As she took his blood pressure, pulse ox and temperature, she transferred the data from her palm to a yellow sticky, and then into the EMR.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Last week we noted that Massachusetts General Hospital had tapped Voalte to distribute iPhones to its nurses. This week the New York Times also published a feature on how smartphones have become increasingly essential tools for students at nursing schools. The Times discussed the trend with a handful of professors and students at nursing schools across the country.
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Medical News Today
“With the prodding of new federal legislation, electronic health records (EHRs) are rapidly becoming part of the daily practice of hospital nurses – the frontline providers of care.
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UPI.com
“U.S. nurses working with electronic health records consistently reported improvements tin nursing care and better health outcomes, researchers say.
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Infection Control Today
“With the prodding of new federal legislation, electronic health records (EHRs) are rapidly becoming part of the daily practice of hospital nurses – the frontline providers of care.
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Kutney-Lee A, Kelly D. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 41(11)
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of having a basic electronic health record (EHR) on nurse-assessed quality of care, including patient safety. Few large-scale studies have examined how adoption of EHRs may be associated with quality of care. A cross-sectional, secondary analysis of nurse and hospital survey data was conducted. The final sample included 16,352 nurses working in 316 hospitals in 4 states.
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Kurt Ullman, MedPage Today
“Intensive care unit nurses at one healthcare system said that personally knowing the physician providing overnight telemedicine coverage was important, although actual exposure to telemedicine among the respondents was quite low, according to a survey out of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Mullen-Fortino M et al, American Journal of Critical Care, 21(1)
Background
Intensive care unit telemedicine is an innovative approach to providing critical care services for a broad geographic area, but its success may depend on acceptance by bedside providers.
Objectives
To determine critical care nurses’ attitudes toward and perceptions about the use of telemedicine in critical care.
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Carrington JM, Effken JA. Computers Informatics Nursing, 29(6)
The purpose of this research was to compare nurses’ perceptions of the strengths and limitations of the electronic health record with and without nursing languages for documenting and retrieving patient information regarding a clinical event. The effectiveness of the electronic health record to facilitate nurse-to-nurse communication is not well understood. Furthermore, little is known how nurse-to-nurse communication influences patient safety and failure-to-rescue events.
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Ranit Mishori, The Washington Post
“It’s a return trip nobody wants to take: You are discharged from the hospital only to find yourself re-admitted a few days later.
More and more people are finding themselves in this revolving door — at a cost to both hospitals and patients.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“As U.S. healthcare providers install and build out electronic health records (EHR) systems, nurses are demanding leadership roles in IT projects. And hospitals across the country appear to be responding by creating the position of chief nursing information officer (CNIO).
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Chicago Tribune
“Advances in health care are not all in operating rooms or laboratories. Technological advances have rapidly changed the face of health care information and how it is used and disseminated.
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Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a virtual nurse and exercise coach that are surprisingly likable and effective—even if they’re not quite as affable as the medical hologram on Star Trek. In fact, patients who interacted with a virtual nurse named Elizabeth said they preferred the computer simulation to an actual doctor or nurse because they didn’t feel rushed or talked down to.
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Harrington L et al, The Journal of Nursing Administration, 41(7-8)
Heuristic evaluation is a type of study that is useful for uncovering usability issues in a human-computer interface such as the electronic medical record (EMR). Findings can be very useful in overcoming usability problems to better realize the benefits of the EMR.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Practice Fusion plans to launch native iPhone and Android versions of its electronic health record (EHR) application within a couple of months. The company demoed versions of the EHR for iOS and Android on Sept. 27 at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
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Katherine Gombay, Medical Xpress
“In a pilot project for the Public Health Agency of Canada, diabetic patients in four regions of Quebec – the Lower North Shore, the Îles de la Madeleine, and in two different areas in Montreal – submitted their blood sugar readings to the nurse on a daily basis, using a secure website. Patients also answered a series of questions daily about their exercise, diet, and food care practices.
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Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“In the latest on-line edition of Hospital and Health Networks Daily there is an ironic juxtaposition of commentaries. In one of those commentaries, author and futurist David Ellis ponders the day, perhaps not all that many years away, when machines become smarter at making a correct medical diagnosis than doctors. He provides some great examples of expert systems already available that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to adeptly defeat humans in many disciplines.
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