Nursing Informatics
Blog #2
The future of informatics
1. Technology is always changing, updating, outdating, and being tweaked. There are and always will be flaws with it and ways in which it could be improved. One thing that I would make a change with is our Epic charting system at St. Johns hospital. The area that causes the most chaos is when Epic goes on downtime in order for updates to be accomplished. Downtime occurs for anywhere between 2-10 hours, is usually scheduled, but sometimes happens unexpectedly. When this happens, it creates tension among staff, slowed processes, and even creates opportunities for mistakes to be made. When Epic goes down, we have a process called shadow-read where staff can go back into the program a different way and be able to see everything in a chart up until the time that the system went down. The change that I would want to be put into play would be to make a fill in charting system such as shadow read where we are able to chart normally on a patient, and then when Epic comes back up, we can then link accounts. Doing this would save so many things including: time, stress, errors, paper, etc.
2. Another change I would implement for the future is to start informatics education at an earlier stage in student’s academic career. In younger students, schools teach computer skills, but don’t get into depth with informatics. I think that this is so important due to the rapid influx of technology into today’s society. Technology and informatics is starting to become incorporated into people’s lives at even younger ages. It is important especially for those young users that they understand where their technology has come from, how to use it, how it has changed, the future of it, and how to expand their horizons even more. I think that a good way to implement this change would be to add an elective type class into high schools to allow students to have the opportunity to expand their knowledge in the technology field.
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