Integration Of Informatics Research Articles

Informatics: Catching the Next Wave in Pharmacy Education

Informatics: Catching the Next Wave in Pharmacy Education

A Summary of Comparative Study of Software Reliability

With the integration of informatization and industrialization, the application of software is getting more and more extensive and plays a powerful role in many facilities. At the same time, Software failures cause tremendous losses, thus ensuring the reliability of software becomes increasingly important. The basic conceptions of software reliability are put forward in this paper, and comparative analysis on the research status at home and abroad are studied. Meanwhile, the perspective of the further progress of software reliability is made.

The Integration of Informatics Content in Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Education

Many experts, professional organizations, landmark reports, and nurse executives have called for a nursing workforce that demonstrates informatics competencies. However, surprisingly, gaps in the integration of informatics into nursing curriculum and development of informatics competencies among nurses remain. To obtain a clearer picture of the current status of the integration of informatics content into baccalaureate and graduate nursing education, the authors discuss their assessment of a 2012 published list of the top online schools of nursing in the United States.

The Place, Role and Imperative of the Functional and Informatics Integration of the Economic Situational Information

Concepts of economic information are analyzed, transforming, processing, carried out the general classification and elucidated their conceptual content. Also, it's established the place, the role, interconnections and interactions of economic informative subsystems. Starting of the composition and structure of the unitary economic informational process, are highlighted the categories of the stages and operations of this process, the succession of the achievement, current situation ways and prospects of its integral informatics achievement. The necessity of the conscientiousness and consideration of situational information (informative, descriptive) as a decisive factor of the interspersing and interconnection of the material compartment and decisional informational under compartment of the unitary economic administrational process is motivated. The essential factors what motivated the integration of functional and informatics processing of situational information of the unitary economic managerial process are revealed in evidence, enumerated and examined.Keywords: Notions Of Economic Situational Information, Place, Role, Processing, Unitary Economic Administrational Process, Material, Informational Compartments, Informative, Decisional Under Compartments, Motivation, Imperative Factors, Integration Functional, Informatics Achievement(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)1 Introduction [6, 386-389; 7, 42-43]Although in present some users have the impression that the economic informational works are entirely achieved in informatics mode, the reality confirms the fact that many of them are in incipient situation. Such state is characteristic for primary and for utilization stages of the examined information.In connection with this observation, the major importance became the problems of determining of the place, role and the integral complex informatics achievement of the processing of all information in the environment of the unitary economic informational system.Both in theory and in practice of the modern management, the unitary economic leadership process is approach almost entirely only from informational viewpoint. But this standpoint such things are simply not done the clear distinction between informative and decisional activities, often the first being considered the managerial. At the same time, the technical - scientifically progress, more real opportunities to be automatically accomplished through the informatics technique, not only informational, but also the material processes, interconnection and interaction with the first, even more insistently impose the approach of economic management process on the unitary positions, thus considering it as inseparable material - informational nucleus. Finally, the following of this conception results with the accomplishment of a twenty century dream-the constitution of the automatically economic unit, formulated by the father of cybernetics N. Viener.Starting from these observations, has easily gained those two fundamental compartments of the economic unitary management process, but within the framework of the latter - role, place and concept of functioning of the informational situational (informative, descriptive) under compartment, considering it decisive, because through his it ensures the interconnections and interactions between material compartment and decisional under compartment.The gradual evolution of economic informational domain and the informatics understructure, which ensure its functioning, required the elaboration of its certain fundamental theoretical conceptions of the organizing, structuring and transformation of the informative (descriptive, situational) information circulating in the medium of the economic managerial system in the pressing interconnection and interaction with the informatics subsystem.The necessity in such approach is motivated of the existent situation, when the economic informational activities are not affected in the both named mediums, otherwise, respectively external and internal. …

Status of Informatics Integration in Baccalaureate Nursing Education: A Systematic Review

Status of Informatics Integration in Baccalaureate Nursing Education: A Systematic Review

Integrating Informatics in Undergraduate Nursing Curricula: Using the QSEN Framework as a Guide

Informatics education must prepare today's nurses to manage a deluge of information and use technology effectively. In addition, U.S. health care is being redesigned with technology that improves patient safety and quality of care. The Institute of Medicine's recommendations for health care safety and professional education prompted initiatives by the National League for Nursing, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and others to make informatics a fundamental part of nursing education. The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project outlines specific competency goals for informatics knowledge, skills, and attitudes. However, progress toward integration of informatics in nursing curricula has been slow, and additional strategies need further exploration and discussion in the nursing literature. This article uses the QSEN framework to present strategies for teaching multiple facets of informatics in the classroom, simulation laboratory, and clinical settings in a baccalaureate nursing curriculum.

The Health IT Pledge

WITH EACH NEW ACADEMIC YEAR, WE ALL FACE THE CHALLENGE OF FINDING NEW IDEAS FOR OUR COURSES. This is particularly true as we struggle with the integration of informatics into the nursing curriculum. Following is a learning activity that you can use highlight the use of information technologies and communication tools facilitate patient engagement. hope that you will modify the approach have taken. Not only will your students learn how use innovative tools engage patients in their health care, but they will also begin think about redesigning patient advocacy and consumer engagement in the era of social media and smartphone apps. As a faculty member, always try create learning strategies that allow learners translate their knowledge into meaningful experiences or useable products. This summer, kept thinking about the call issued by the Institute of Medicine (IOM, 2011) for nurses understand innovative technology tools and experiment with them. In its Future of Nursing report, the IOM charges nurses with redesigning consumer engagement and health delivery. So, in preparing for the online course in e-health teach each summer for our graduate program in informatics, decided make a change for the final assignment required of students. Rather than conclude with an assignment create a plan implement an e-health application support advanced nursing practice, determined allow learners translate their new knowledge into a health campaign. In this course, we examine tools that facilitate peer-to-peer health and connect patients or consumers with providers outside the walls of traditional health institutions. These tools include telehealth, patient portals, personal health records, social media, Second Life, and mobile health (m-health) apps. The course has four modules: definitions, descriptions of the tools and their uses in health care, assessing the evidence, and analyzing the challenges. This year, inspired by the IOM and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (www.healthit.gov) campaign put the I in Health IT, had students learn about the Health IT Pledge (www.healthit.gov/pledge/). The goal would be to educate and engage the public on the value and benefits of health information technology (health IT) in improving health and health care through the use of an e-health tool (Health and Human Services Department, 2011). The first step was engage in a healthy discussion about what e-health is and the differences between the two concepts of empowerment and engagement. Then we discussed the two types of pledges offered through the Health IT campaign. The first, targeted toward those who manage or maintain individually identifiable health data (e.g., providers, hospitals, payers, retail pharmacies), is as follows: We pledge make it easier for individuals and their caregivers have secure, timely, and electronic access their health information. Suggestions for this pledge include allowing consumers access personal health information, for example, from a patient portal, or encouraging staff take a leadership role in promoting access health information so that consumers can more actively participate in their health decisions. The second pledge, targeted toward those who do not manage or maintain consumer health data, but have the ability educate consumers about the importance of getting access and using their health information (e.g., employers, consumer and disease-based organizations, healthcare associations, product developers), goes like this: We pledge engage and empower individuals be partners in their health through information technology. The TIGER Initiative Foundation is one of the non data holders that took the second pledge. Suggestions for this pledge include engaging constituents dialogue about benefits, having a CEO or dean send a message all employees, developing products, like apps, help consumers, or, in our case, educating patients about the value of e-health tools for consumer engagement. …

Informatics competencies for healthcare professionals: the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative model

A growing awareness exists that informatics competencies are essential skills for healthcare professionals today, yet the development of these competencies lags behind the need. The Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative represents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary effort that is well suited to the integration of informatics into education, practice, administration, and research environments. This article briefly discusses the background and significance of the TIGER Initiative and why it may be used as a model to instill informatics among the healthcare professionals globally.

Integration of Informatics and Health Informatics into Health Educational Programs of Higher Education in Greece

Objective: The aim of this paper is to study the inclusion of Informatics and Health Informatics subjects in the health sciences departments’ curricula of higher education in Greece. Its main purpose is to determine the level of health informatics knowledge, dexterities and skills that these departments provide for their graduates. Method: Informatics and Health Informatics subjects were recorded from the departments’ curricula available on their ocial Web sites. Afterwards, these subjects were categorised based on the description of the objectives, the content and the syllabus of each department and on the Goals of Informatics Education identified by the American Medical Informatics Association. Results: Our research indicated that most of the subjects mainly focus on introductory concepts and applications rather than on advanced issues of informatics, resulting, mostly, in producing Information Technology users rather than Health/Medical Informatics specialists. Conclusion: The study presented in this paper points out the imperative need of health educational programs of higher education in Greece to adjust their curricula to the current educational requirements in order to provide their graduates with the necessary knowledge in health information technologies.

Technologies of teachers preparation for research activity on the basis of mathematics and informatics integration

The meaning of a process of forming the integrity of students knowledge and skills specifying the quality of professional and research activities of a teacher in the field of pedagogy is revealed in the article, the techniques of implementation of this process on the basis of Mathematics and Informatics integration are described.

Improving Technological Competency in Nursing Students: The Passport Project

Integration of informatics competency into a nursing curriculum is important to ensure success throughout the education and career of contemporary nursing students. As enrollment in nursing programs increases, the diverse population of students from many different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds presents a challenge for faculty in addressing unique learning needs. Competency in informatics will allow the beginning nursing student to navigate the on-line teaching software used by colleges. With rigorous expectations in nursing programs, students may feel overwhelmed with assignments, organization, and time management. Frustration may build when students struggle with basic informatics competency, often leaving them unable to navigate instructional websites or work with necessary on-line learning content. The purpose of this project, Passport Project for Nursing Success, was to assess the skills, knowledge, and informatics comfort level of students, while providing computer training and teaching for beginning nursing students in an undergraduate nursing program in Central Illinois. The community college encompassed students from a ten county area, with 20 percent of the student population enrolled in the Applied Science curriculum. Initial implementation occurred prior to the students' first nursing course and emphasized basic skills necessary to navigate on-line learning software, library search engines, and electronic communication. The greatest barrier to successful implementation was faculty resistance and academic support during completion of the initial implementation of the Passport Project. Post- project surveys indicated overwhelming student support for the education received and improved retention rates of first semester nursing students.

Exploring the Effect of mHealth Technologies on Communication and Information Sharing in a Pediatric Critical Care Unit

Communication and information sharing is an important aspect of healthcare information technology and mHealth management. A main requirement in the quality of patient care is the ability of all health care participants to communicate. Research illustrates that the complexity of communicating within the health care system hinders the quality of health care service delivery. Health informatics have been touted as a way to improve communication deficiencies, which has led to the exponential growth of health informatics integration. However, research still lags in understanding how health informatics affects patient care, health professional work routines, and the overall health care system. This study investigates the extent to which mHealth technologies influence communication information sharing patterns between interdisciplinary health care providers in the delivery of health care services. This study was conducted at Hamilton Health Sciences and through a sociotechnical approach, focuses on both the end user’s experiences with mHealth in daily work communication scenarios, and the extent to which mHealth use affects interdisciplinary communication. Results indicate that there are several mitigating factors which influence communication patterns using mHealth technologies, including: information sharing, mobility, ergonomic and system design.

Aging and Dying in Place: Forging a Successful Collaboration with Assisted Living Facilities (300)

2. Describe the common themes found in informatics and CPE that can serve as a foundation for building a collaborative environment. 3. Discuss the national trends in electronic and technology advances and their potential impact on the identification, implementation, and evaluation of CPE activities. The integration of informatics in the healthcare environment provides a vast opportunity for linking practice performance data with opportunities for continuing education of healthcare teams, including active patients and their loved ones. The partnership of informatics and continued professional education based upon actual practice provides a new foundation for the integration of specific timely education into the overall healthcare delivery system. This will involve restructuring core skill sets and attitudes tied to information and communications technology and, in time, should improve both patient outcomes and professional satisfaction.

Improving Health Care Through Effective Clinical Leadership: “The Fine Art of Herding Cats”

2. Describe the common themes found in informatics and CPE that can serve as a foundation for building a collaborative environment. 3. Discuss the national trends in electronic and technology advances and their potential impact on the identification, implementation, and evaluation of CPE activities. The integration of informatics in the healthcare environment provides a vast opportunity for linking practice performance data with opportunities for continuing education of healthcare teams, including active patients and their loved ones. The partnership of informatics and continued professional education based upon actual practice provides a new foundation for the integration of specific timely education into the overall healthcare delivery system. This will involve restructuring core skill sets and attitudes tied to information and communications technology and, in time, should improve both patient outcomes and professional satisfaction.

The Evolution of Bioinformatics in Toxicology: Advancing Toxicogenomics

As one reflects back through the past 50 years of scientific research, a significant accomplishment was the advance into the genomic era. Basic research scientists have uncovered the genetic code and the foundation of the most fundamental building blocks for the molecular activity that supports biological structure and function. Accompanying these structural and functional discoveries is the advance of techniques and technologies to probe molecular events, in time, across environmental and chemical exposures, within individuals, and across species. The field of toxicology has kept pace with advances in molecular study, and the past 50 years recognizes significant growth and explosive understanding of the impact of the compounds and environment to basic cellular and molecular machinery. The advancement of molecular techniques applied in a whole-genomic capacity to the study of toxicant effects, toxicogenomics, is no doubt a significant milestone for toxicological research. Toxicogenomics has also provided an avenue for advancing a joining of multidisciplinary sciences including engineering and informatics in traditional toxicological research. This review will cover the evolution of the field of toxicogenomics in the context of informatics integration its current promise, and limitations.

The Impact of Informatics on Nursing Education: A Review of the Literature

On the basis of a study by the Institute of Medicine, the current health care system is facing several challenges that may be addressed by changes in health professions education. The study focused on integration of five core competencies into health professions education, one of which was informatics. This critical analysis investigates current use of technology and online instructional strategies in nursing education. It also explores the potential impact of integration of informatics into nursing education to increase the cognitive skills of nurses to promote evidence-based nursing. Advantages and disadvantages of using online education in the instruction of nursing students and recommendations for best online practices in nursing education are discussed.

Interpretation of an international terminology standard in the development of a logic-based compositional terminology

Purpose Version 1.0 of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP ®) is a logic-based compositional terminology. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 18104:2003 Health Informatics—Integration of a reference terminology model for nursing is an international standard to support the development, testing and implementation of nursing terminologies. Methods This study examines how ISO 18104:2003 has been interpreted in the development of ICNP ® Version 1.0 by identifying mappings between ICNP ® and the ISO standard. Representations of diagnostic and interventional statements within ICNP ® are also analyzed according to the requirements mandated by the ISO standard. Results All structural components of ISO 18104:2003 i.e. semantic categories, semantic domains, qualifiers and semantic links are represented either directly or in interpreted form within ICNP ®. The formal representations within ICNP ® of diagnostic and interventional statements meet the requirement of the ISO standard. Conclusions The findings of this study demonstrate that ICNP ® Version 1.0 conforms to ISO 18104:2003. More importantly perhaps, this study provides practical examples of how components of a terminology standard might be interpreted and it examines how such a standard might be used to support the definition of high-level schemata in developing logic-based compositional terminologies.

Radiology speech recognition: Workflow, integration, and productivity issues

Continuous voice recognition is now a reality, with at least 3 major vendors providing independent systems for radiology departments. However, to be truly useful, such systems must be integrated into the overall medical informatics architecture including order entry into the radiology information system, the ability to receive orders from the radiology information system, acceptance and transcription of dictation, and transmission of validated reports to the hospital information system (HIS)for billing capture. In addition, the system should permit sufficient flexibility to permit radiologists to operate in multiple modes: real-time recognition, batch processing, or spooling of audio files for later transcription by human agents, which is especially useful for very difficult accents. This article demonstrates the various modes of operation for 2 recognition systems that have been used in our center, describes the basics of their recognition models, examines the HL7 messages required for medical informatics integration, and finally illustrates the effect on report turnaround times. Curr Probl Diagn Radiol 2002;31:95-104.

Radiology speech recognition: Workflow, integration, and productivity issues

Continuous voice recognition is now a reality, with at least 3 major vendors providing independent systems for radiology departments. However, to be truly useful, such systems must be integrated into the overall medical informatics architecture including order entry into the radiology information system, the ability to receive orders from the radiology information system, acceptance and transcription of dictation, and transmission of validated reports to the hospital information system (HIS) for billing capture. In addition, the system should permit sufficient flexibility to permit radiologists to operate in multiple modes: real-time recognition, batch processing, or spooling of audio files for later transcription by human agents, which is especially useful for very difficult accents. This article demonstrates the various modes of operation for 2 recognition systems that have been used in our center, describes the basics of their recognition models, examines the HL7 messages required for medical informatics integration, and finally illustrates the effect on report turnaround times.

Health professionals' views of informatics education: findings from the AMIA 1999 spring conference.

Health care leaders emphasize the need to include information technology and informatics concepts in formal education programs, yet integration of informatics into health educational programs has progressed slowly. The AMIA 1999 Spring Congress was held to address informatics educational issues across health professions, including the educational needs in the various health professions, goals for health informatics education, and implementation strategies to achieve these goals. This paper presents the results from AMIA work groups focused on informatics education for non-informatics health professionals. In the categories of informatics needs, goals, and strategies, conference attendees suggested elements in these areas: educational responsibilities for faculty and students, organizational responsibilities, core computer skills and informatics knowledge, how to learn informatics skills, and resources required to implement educational strategies.