An Electronic Nursing Patient Care Plan Helps in Clinical Decision Support.
Information technology can help to improve health care delivery. The utilisation of informatics principle enhances the quality of nursing practices through improved communication, documentation and efficiency. The Nursing Profession constitutes 34% of the total workforce in the Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HA) and includes 21,000 nurses in 2012. To enhance the quality of care and patient safety in both hospitals and community care setting, it is essential that an integrated electronic decision support system for nurses is designed to track documentation and support care or service including observations, decisions, actions and outcomes throughout the care process at each point-of-care. The Patient Care Plan project was set up to achieve these objectives. The Project adheres to strict documentation information architecture to ensure data sharing is freely available. Preliminary results showed very promising improvement in clinical care.
Health Informatics Section, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR.
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Wong
Health Informatics Section, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR.
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Wu
Information Technology Division, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR.
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Ting
Information Technology Division, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR.
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Ho
Health Informatics Section, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR.
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Tong
Health Informatics Section, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR.
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Cheung
D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D058996:Quality Improvement