How Technology in Informatics can Help Support Patient Care

Technology and Nursing Informatics
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Introduction
Technology has continued playing a pivotal role in various fields, such as nursing. Nursing informatics constitutes an essential part of the field, which continues to have dynamic changes due to the current age of information technology. Healthcare informatics, especially advanced technology in healthcare, is significant in ensuring quality patient care due to the accuracy and timeliness of its application. Technology in informatics has played a key role in supporting patient care and enhancing the patient-provider relationship, which further magnifies the nurse's role as an interdisciplinary team member. This gives the nurse a more central and vital role in the profession.
How Technology in Informatics Can Help to Support Patient Care.
Introducing technology in the healthcare sector improves patient outcomes through quality, accurate and timely interventions. Technology in informatics plays a crucial role in preventing the spread of diseases and controlling or managing them once it is out there. It, therefore, helps manage outbreaks of contagious diseases. According to Ye (2020), health informatics technology was utilized during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the screening of patients, contact tracing, temperature detection, and real-time data collection. In the present age, data and information is the most valuable thing for any organization across virtually all fields. It is the main currency that runs the digital era.
Through health information technology (HIT), patients can access services such as remote consultation and get timely hospital updates like prevention and control guidelines. Informatics technology has helped in ensuring that there is a detailed database containing certain information on the patients. This has cut down on too much paperwork and manual record-keeping that has often been at risk of being lost or burnt. The database makes it easy to access such information, helping ha...