Medicine has always been one of the most progressive areas of science. In this regard, each new invention somehow improved and modernized the process of treating patients and the various technologies associated with it. One such project is The Health Information Technology Project, which would not have moved forward without stakeholders and developers who joined forces and were able to introduce the IT technology into the workflow.
The medical center staff has a huge responsibility as they carry out all the necessary work with the data. This fact is noted by Ball, “in order for the nursing profession and for other healthcare provider groups to embrace and meaningfully use the informatics and emerging technologies at the core of health reform, change in the culture of health care is critical.” (Ball et al., 2011, p. 9) In the future, as Weaver and Zeilsdorf explain, “nurses will need the knowledge and experience to use health technologies, health information sites, email and document sharing, social media and wireless monitoring,” not only in healthcare settings but everywhere in society. (American Nurses Association, 2008, p. 66) When making a decision, the initiative came from the IT department, doctors, managers, and nurses. That is, the entire staff of the medical center tried to improve the quality of service by introducing a special data system.
What is more, the data storage alone is far from the limit of IT in helping medicine; there are still many significant implementations that can be used in the development of personalized medicines, diagnosing diseases, and predicting more effective treatment. Data science is an area in the IT industry that is engaged in inventive activity. For example, scientists are looking to automate some of the tasks of physicians who evaluate images – for example, radiologists and pathologists.
To conclude, projects for integrating patient data into the charts or projects that include data science are relevant as they increase efficiency and greatly simplify the work of medical institutions using intelligent systems.
References
American Nurses Association. (2008). Nursing informatics: Scope and standards of practice. Silver Spring.
Ball, M. J., Hannah, K. J., DuLong, D., Newbold, S. K., Sensmeier, J. E., Skiba, D. J., Troseth, M. R., Gugerty, B., Hinton Walker, P., & Douglas, J. V. (Eds.). (2011). Nursing informatics. Springer London.
Ball, M. J., Douglas, J.V., Hinton Walker, P., DuLong, D., Gugerty, B., Hannah, K.J., Kiel, J.M., Newbold, S.K., Sensmeier, J.E., Skiba, D.J., Troseth, M.R. (2011). Nursing informatics: Where technology and caring meet. Springer-Verlag.