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Nursing Informatics/HealthIT Hot Topic of Week Assignment
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HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES 2
Nursing Informatics/HealthIT Hot Topic of Week Assignment
Clinical applications are the current trends in healthcare technology channeled at
developing new concepts and knowledge to meet patient care. Nursing informatics is the science
and practice that integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with management of
information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and
communities worldwide (Thede, 2012). This paper explores the overview of Telemonitoring
Program in improving the treatment of heart failure, storage and retrieval of the patients’ data.
The advantages and disadvantages of using this technology will be discussed giving reasons why
any health care facility should adopt this technology. The safety procedures used by the health
care provider to ensure the safety and quality of the patients has been enhanced will be also
documented in the paper. A recommendation on what the healthcare facilities should consider
while adopting this technology will also be discussed. The rationale of selecting this topic is
mainly due to increase in demand for the adoption of technologies to meet the growing need of
nursing informatics in health organization and determine whether they are effective in informing
practitioners. Additionally, after successfully researching on this topic, a vast knowledge on
clinical design systems, effectiveness and management of these systems in health care, and
analyzing nursing information requirements will be acquired.
An Overview of Home Telemonitoring Program
In home Telemonitoring program (TM), the patient is remotely monitored by the
healthcare professionals who are not at the same place as the patient, but instead devices are used
to send medical data to health care offices. The device are designed, have big buttons, to make it
easy for the patient to use without having to seek assistance from anybody. When using the

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device the patient is asked to measure things such as weight, blood pressure, pulse, blood
glucose, temperature, and oxygen level in the blood. Additionally, information such as a patient’s
symptoms and wellbeing might be need by the doctor in order to conclusive results, where the
device is programmed to ask questions that requires a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ reply. The measurements are
then sent automatically to the monitoring center where the reading are interpreted by a team of
professional doctors and stored in a secure database for further use (Leahy & Davenport, 2015).