Question

how could I use informatics in my nursing practice by be able to retrieve past patients information

Answer 1

Health informatics deals with gathering, studying, and managing healthcare data and applying medical concepts in concurrence with health information technology to aid healthcare professionals in providing better healthcare. It is a specialization that connects information technology and healthcare, and is focused on the implementation and dispatch of IT-based services to healthcare users. Health informatics has a significant role in the coordination of care in nursing practice. In nursing practice, healthcare informatics aids in providing quality care by efficient management of patient data in the form of electronic health records and IT-based services. An electronic health record contains all information about a patient including a patient’s past medical and surgical history, allergies, medications, social history etc., By accessing a patient’s EHR, any nursing professional can retrieve that patient’s past information. Thus past patient information can be retrieved from EHR using healthcare informatics in nursing practice.