NSE 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canada Health Infoway, Health Care In Canada, Electronic Health Record
Document Summary
Nursing informatics (ni): a specialty area of nursing practice dedicated to optimal use of technology to support professional practice and enable optimum patient outcomes. Electronic health record (ehr): a longitudinal record of an individual"s health status (including diagnosed morbid conditions), diagnostic tests, treatments, and results. Nursing informatics and the canadian health care system. Defining nursing informatics: 2009: nursing informatics science and practice integrates nursing, its information and knowledge and their management with information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities globally. Standards (in health care data management): nationally or internationally agreed-upon protocol for representing all types of health information, including types of care provided, location of care provision, pharmacy ordering and dispensing, and billing messages. Infoway notes that standards ensure interoperability by supporting information exchange and identifies standards as a critical foundation for the interoperable electronic health record (iehr)
