Associated Factors with Electronic Personal Health Records Use among Older Cancer Survivors: An Application of Anderson’s Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to eHealth Services
Electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are commonly viewed as potential tools to improve clinical outcomes through increasing patients’ ability to self-manage healthcare. Older cancer survivors could be benefited from using ePHRs for their supportive care. This study aims to examine factors...
Using a "think-aloud" process to aid co-design in development of a medicine information needs assessment tool
This paper describes one part of a multi-stage project aiming to develop a new tool to assist nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to better meet the medicine information needs of consumers.
Targeted Efforts Towards Advancing Adoption of a Unique Nurse Identifier
Proof of concept (POC) pilots demonstrate nursing's powerful impact in clinical practice scenarios. Initial POCs follow advanced practice nurses' journey through education, career changes, advancing education, obtaining certifications, and measuring nursing outcomes to improve practice in all set...
Reimagine Health: Creating space for Nursing Informatics in the Vision
The theme for this year’s HIMSS22 coming up on March 14 – 18 in Orlando, Florida and online is “Reimagine Health”. In an interview done for Healthcare Finance, HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf explained why this theme was selected. “HIMSS looked at what has fundamentally changed," said CEO Hal Wolf....
The Value of HIMSS Market Insights for Healthcare Marketers
Learn more about how market insights drive thought leadership and strategy.
Industry Perspectives: Health Equity
We asked thought leaders to share their perspectives on the next steps healthcare systems should take to positively impact health equity and the importance of adopting evolving technology.
Informatics Nurses Make a Difference
We asked nurse informaticists to share their perspectives on their involvement in new initiatives, how innovation is incorporated into technology solutions, and the ways in which nursing informatics continues to make an impact.
Success and Challenges of Telemedicine in the Care of Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the COVID-19 surge and shutdown of New York City from March 2020 through May 2020, we transitioned to telemedicine to provide routine and urgent care to our pediatric heart transplant patients. The effectiveness of telemedicine in this population has not been described.
Social Media Utilization in Undergraduate Nursing Education: An Integrative Literature Review
Social media use has been proposed as a resource for learning in education across disciplines. The potential of social media use in nursing education programs has been highlighted since they can enhance students’ competency in the use of health information technology applications and meet the l...
An evaluation of a Framework for Supporting Ehealth Service Delivery in a Ugandan rural setting
eHealth is an emerging field within the intersection of medical informatics, public health, business, and clinical practices. It can be applied to meet the rising global demand for cost effective and reliable services in the health sector. As a result, eHealth has been put forward on the planning...
Speech Recognition Technology for Increasing Nursing Documentation Efficiency
Speech Recognition Technology (SRT) has increased in prevalence as a solution for providers to improve their documentation efficiency. Because nursing documentation consists primarily of discrete data entry into flowsheets, SRT has not been widely implemented for nurses (Blackley et al., 2019). N...
Enhanced Telemedicine in a Mobile Integrated Health Program to Improve Healthcare Access During COVID-19 Pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, primary care and specialist visits declined. During the pandemic, Baltimore City Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) continued with targeted home visits among complex patients to help reduce hospital readmission rates. Many provider offices and specialists were close...