Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition
Book 3: Innovation, Technology, and Applied Informatics for Nurses
2022 Productivity Press: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003281016
Chapter 1
Author: Joyce Sensmeier
As the digital health landscape evolves, healthcare innovation continues to accelerate, offering new tools and technologies that will profoundly affect care delivery and the patient experience. This chapter describes the emerging top informatics trends and envisions how these new technologies will become an integral part of healthcare over the next decade. Thus, it is essential for nurses to understand and embrace these new digital technologies as the value of the innovations that they make possible is established for clinical practice and health outcomes. Personalized healthcare, telehealth, artificial intelligence, voice technology, predictive analytics and mobile device integration are key technologies currently being explored for use in healthcare. The state of adoption, potential applications, benefits and challenges for implementation of these advances are important elements to consider. In order to take part in this digital transformation, nurses must understand and appreciate the potential impact of technology and innovation on their practice. These advances will also rapidly expand the knowledge and expertise that nurse informaticists must attain in order to employ these new capabilities in their practice.