Health information systems: improving nursing care and cutting costs

health care technology has developed to the point where we can quickly and accurately access and track cost, trends, and patient care information.

for more than 3 decades, health care information systems have been built upon the administrative and financial information needs of the health care delivery organization. since 1991, there has been over an 8-fold increase in power and capacity of personal computers.
health care employees can now collect, document and retrieve greater amounts of clinical information pertinent to the patient faster and more accurately.

nurses and other clinicians will interact and often use the electronic medical record component of the CPR. Most health care practices across the country have alraedy begun addressing their electronic documentation and other clinical needs.

initial studies show that each nurse spends approximately 1.5 hours per shift on paper chart documentation, while nurses using EMR spend just over half an hour documenting their findings and care. EMR also can improve patient care by reducing preventable errors.



collecting nursing related-data is essential to the continued improvement of patient care.Using EMR can give nurses more time to interact with their patient/s.