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Improving Practice through the use of technology
Claire Bűchner, Consultant Nurse, Connected Health
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Aims
o Realise the importance of ICT in nursing practice
o Discuss the value of ICT in nursing practice
o Identify examples of the use of ICT in nursing
practice
o Reflect on the need for leadership
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“If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you
always had”Albert Einstein
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Why? Local issues which reflect global trends
o Demographicso LTCso Increased demand on “system”o Resources – people and £o Drive for effectiveness and efficiency
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Citizen centred
o Access to informationo More dispersed careo Evidence based careo New ways of receiving information
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So in health & social care …o Desire to changeo Need to be effectiveo Need to be efficiento Reducing the burden of illnesso More responsive
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So by joining the dots … Linking patients and service users with information and support
networks Connecting patients and service users with clinicians and services Improved, more consistent monitoring of patient conditions Linking clinician to clinicians, providing remote access to specialist
advice and supporting improved communication across clinical networks
Improving the information base to support clinical decisions Improving clinical governance and quality assurance programmes Streamlining the care pathway across the primary, community and
hospital care sectors Better information to support improved performance
.......with ICT
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Electronic Care Records
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•Clinical care pathways enable clinicians to identify the right cohort of patients suitable for the telehealth service
•Patients are now enrolled on to the telehealth service and start to monitor their vital signs at home
•Readings are taken with the various peripherals and transmitted to the monitoring centre
•Qualitative information can be captured via condition specific health interviews/ questionnaires
•Patients and their carers can view their monitoring history on a secure patient portal
Telemonitoring NI
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Telecare/Reablement
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Nursing Information Systems
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Social Media
• Public Health communication strategies
• Communities of Practice• Enhanced access to
information
• Share with others their health concerns
• Virtual communities
• Communicate with HCP
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New SkillsInformation management must become coreoWhat information is necessary to support practiceoHow the information is represented in NISsoHow to find, manipulate and use information
oHow to manage remote relationshipsoHow to share with other professionals
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The Challenges Aheado Leadershipo Modernise nursing roleso Cultureo Education
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Thank you Claire BűchnerMobile:077478 08793Email: [email protected]: www.telemonitoringni.info