The Impact of Nursing Informatics on Patient Outcomes and Patient Care Efficiencies
The Impact of Nursing Informatics on Patient Outcomes and Patient Care Efficiencies
Technological advances continue to redefine global operationalizations. The dawn of health information technologies has given insights into their significance in perpetuating effective care by streamlining the flow of health information. In a dynamic landscape where clinical complexities continue to challenge normative approaches to healthcare delivery, these technologies preserve the role of quality and safety maintenance (Astier et al., 2020). In chronic care, health information technologies provide divergent approaches to quality and safety assurance. Utilizing diverse health information technologies, the chronic care model maintains effectiveness in optimizing clinical outcomes and patient well-being. Nursing informatics plays a role in this respect. Their expertise, position in healthcare, and role in bridging the gap between providers and various information systems make them valuable in chronic care. This proposal highlights the significance of nursing informatics in chronic care, detailing the stakeholders involved in the project, the outcomes it aims to improve, and the technologies required.
Description of the Proposed Project
Chronic disorders remain a global health concern. These illnesses have been implicated in significant morbidity, mortality, and increased cost of healthcare. They account for over 80% of all reported deaths across the globe. In the US, over half of the population has at least one form of chronic illness (Ansah & Chiu, 2023). Despite substantial spending on the comprehensive management of these illnesses, their impact on the quality of life and community wellness is still evident globally. They are a major cause of frequent hospital visits, increased number of hospital stay days, and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
The chronic care model emphasizes the need for sustained care delivery to persons with this illness. However, due to care gaps attributed to provider shortages, limited financial resources, and proximity being apparent, managing these illnesses remains challenging. An aspect of chronic care that continues to be problematic to healthcare systems across the globe is the care continuum for patients with chronic illnesses (Angwenyi et al., 2019). The disintegration of care services that is sometimes ingrained in home-based care remains a contributory factor for health deterioration and quality compromise in chronic care. Health information technologies provide a convenient yet effective approach to chronic care. They allow for remote caring, thereby bridging the care gap accustomed to proximity. In addition, they help reduce healthcare costs by eliminating the need for frequent hospital visitations. Their ability to guarantee contact between providers, healthcare institutions, and resources with the patients further speaks to their value in chronic care (Mayston et al., 2020). Thus, it is necessary to integrate these technologies into the continuum of care for patients with chronic illnesses.
Stakeholders Impacted by the Project
The pursuit of integrating health information technologies into chronic care draws multiple stakeholders. The first stakeholders, and perhaps the most important, are the patients. Patients will be the most impacted population. This is because they are directly targeted with the project. In this respect, they will be expected to learn to use, possess, and adopt the available health information technologies. The project also impacts healthcare providers. Since care continuum processes and chronic care management utilize a collaborative paradigm, caregivers from diverse medical disciplines will be involved. The healthcare administration will also be involved. As administrators, healthcare leaders, and pioneers of change management, they will be expected to guide valuable change processes that will ensure better acceptability of these technologies. This will include funding the training programs, targeted at ensuring capacity and knowledge expansion pertaining to the use of these technologies, making the required technologies available, creating excitement about these technologies to the staff, and overseeing the implementation of these programs. Other stakeholders involved include public health agencies such as the CDC and health and wellness groups. Their role, in this respect, is to educate communities on the effectiveness of the available technologies and how they can leverage them to promote and preserve their health.
Patient Outcomes the Project Aims to Improve
Integrating health information technologies in the care continuum for chronic illnesses is expected to lower the cost of healthcare, reduce hospital visitations, improve the quality of life, and increase the survival rates of these patients. He