Online Course

Nurs 737 - Nursing Informatics Concepts and Practice in System Adoption

Module 9: Trends in Healthcare/Nursing Informatics

Overview

This module will be covering the following content:

  • Health information exchange/interoperability
  • eHealth/Patient portal
  • Big data
  • Population health
  • Cybersecurity


Objectives

At the conclusion of this module, the learner will be able to:

  • Discuss current trends/topics in healthcare and nursing informatics and their applications in systems evaluation and implementation processes.

Required Readings

  • Saba, V. & McCormick, K. A. (Eds.), Essentials of Nursing Informatics. (Ch. 37 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare)
  • Chen, M., Tan, X., & Padman, R. (2020). Social determinants of health in electronic health records and their impact on analysis and risk prediction: A systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 27(11), 1764-1773. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocaa143
  • Ftouni, R., AlJardali, B., Hamdanieh, M., Ftouni, L., & Salem, N. (2022). Challenges of Telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 22(1), 207. doi: 10.1186/s12911-022-01952-0
  • Rogers, W. A., Draper, H., & Carter, S. M. (2021). Evaluation of artificial intelligence clinical applications: Detailed case analyses show value of healthcare ethics approach in identifying patient care issues. Bioethics, 35(7), 623-633. doi: 10.1111/bioe.12885

Directions

Read the module and suggested readings within the module. Then complete the assignment for the module.

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