Consumer Informatics

Click below to view video on YouTube: The Future of Healthcare Information Technology Click below to read paper: Future Issues Lessons Learned: What I learned from this assignment is that as technology advances and improves the quality of care for patients, Nurse Informaticists will be needed more in healthcare. Healthcare professionals will need to continue to be educated on how to utilize the technology available in order to enhance patient outcomes, increase the patient-provider relationship, and improve communication. The only way the patients will benefit from these improvements in technology is if we identify their health literacy and understand their comprehension of the information they receive. By focusing on the needs of the consumer, we can move towards the patient-centered care.

Click the link below to view my paper: White Paper Lessons Learned: I truly had never heard of a white paper prior to this course. Altering from the traditional format of APA that the rest of our papers use was a little difficult to adjust to at first, as I found myself constantly wanting to fix it. What I have learned while writing this paper is that the purpose of a white paper is to advocate how you feel about a certain topic or to educate an audience about a problem and what solution there is to that problem. Regarding the topic of this paper, it allowed us to increase the reader’s knowledge of informatics nurses’ knowledge and skills, the needs of the consumer in healthcare, and how informatics and nursing can contribute to the health of the consumer. This paper allowed me to combine the knowledge that I have gained over the course of this semester but also research other information that I was unaware of.