Question

Are nurses involved in evaluating the information systems for organizations? How and why?

Answer 1

Ans) A well designed information system can facilitate and provide an easier and faster information flow that is needed for efficient documentation processing. Nurses play an essential role in patient's safety where the quality of the nursing environment and electronic documentation has a positive influence on patients.

- The central coordinating role of nurses in the patient care team has made them to be recognized as one of the most important groups of patient record registrar and the main users of HIS. Low quality of nursing documentation represents deficiencies in care programs.

- Any changes in the HIS should be evaluated on a regular basis.

- Assessment of information and communication technology systems in health care organizations is essential to determine their side effects.

- In addition, evaluation of these systems can provide the necessary information to improve knowledge, create better health information systems in the future, and guarantee the existence of efficient information systems.

- As nurses constitute the largest end user group of HISs, evaluation of HISs should begin with the assessment of nursing subsystems.

- However, despite the increasing number of NISs, their evaluation has not been often done thoroughly and sufficiently.

- In addition, no comprehensive theoretical and practical tools, methods, and guides exist for this type of evaluation.