Week 5 Discussion: Transforming Nursing and Healthcare Through Technology
When you wake in the morning, you may reach for your cell phone to reply to a few text or email messages that you missed overnight. On your drive to work, you may stop to refuel your car. Upon your arrival, you might swipe a key card at the door to gain entrance to the facility. And before finally reaching your workstation, you may stop by the cafeteria to purchase a coffee.
From the moment you wake, you are in fact a data-generation machine. Each use of your phone, every transaction you make using a debit or credit card, even your entrance to your place of work, creates data. It begs the question: How much data do you generate each day? Many studies have been conducted on this, and the numbers are staggering: Estimates suggest that nearly 1 million bytes of data are generated every second for every person on earth.
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As the volume of data increases, information professionals have looked for ways to use big data—large, complex sets of data that require specialized approaches to use effectively. Big data has the potential for significant rewards—and significant risks—to healthcare. In this Discussion, you will consider these risks and rewards.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on the web article Big Data Means Big Potential, Challenges for Nurse Execs.
Reflect on your own experience with complex health information access and management and consider potential challenges and risks you may have experienced or observed.
By Day 3 of Week 5
Post a description of at least one potential benefit of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Then, describe at least one potential challenge or risk of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Propose at least one strategy you have experienced, observed, or researched that may effectively mitigate the challenges or risks of using big data you described. Be specific and provide examples.
7th edition APA format for paper and references, please.
Transforming Nursing and Healthcare through Technology
Technology has become an indispensable part of today’s healthcare. The use and adoption of modern technology have improved care delivery in different ways, such as communication, digital tools to cater to information, and data-driven systems to improve patient experience, with nursing one of the significantly and diversely impacted healthcare practice (2nd international nursing conference: Transforming nursing future – technology, innovation and collaboration, 2018). Concerning the use of data in transforming the healthcare industry, one aspect or terminology that has become consistent is big data. This paper describes the benefits, challenges, and mitigation strategies for using big data in healthcare.
Big data can yield new insights into operations in the healthcare industry, such as the ability to engage with individual patients better and closely with the use of connected and mobile health devices. One of the significant benefits of adopting and using big data tools in healthcare is that it helps identify and promptly deploy precision medicine by fostering the detection of patients’ heterogeneity and responses to treatment (Pastorino et al., 2019). This has, in turn, fueled the adoption of patient-based or tailoring healthcare to the patient-specific needs. The use of big data has revolutionized the clinical system into patient-based.
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However, despite the host of benefits related to big data in healthcare, there are challenges affecting the use of big data as part of the clinical system. The volume of data has continued to increase, and complex and demanding specialized strategies to effectively utilize it. One significant risk related to this complexity and data growth is healthcare professionals getting drowned in the data and hence becoming frustrated (DeLuca, 2019). This is whereby the amount of data becomes enormous such that the healthcare professionals fail to establish the critical data or information, hence getting drowned in the big data paradigm. With the growing use of technology, there is an equal growth in the need for healthcare professionals to gain the required knowledge to leverage the available data into their operations. Lack of proper training on using the available information is becoming a significant downside derailing the growth in big data adoption as the employees get stuck to the old ways of doing things.
To mitigate the identified big data challenge effectively, ample employee training on using available technology would foster positivity. For example, nurses trained to use the electronic health record systems would be motivated to integrate this technology into their daily operations. This would not be the case for workers who do not know how to use systems in their organizations. Healthcare professional training would reduce workers’ drowning and getting lost in big data aspects.
References
2nd international nursing conference: Transforming nursing future – technology, innovation, and collaboration. (2018). Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 18(3) https://doi.org/10.18295/squmj.2018.18.03.031
DeLuca, S. (2019). Transforming Nursing Practice through Digitalization. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 32(SP), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.12927/cjnl.2019.25819
Pastorino, R., de Vito, C., Migliara, G., Glocker, K., Binenbaum, I., Ricciardi, W., & Boccia, S. (2019). Benefits and challenges of Big Data in healthcare: an overview of the European initiatives. European Journal of Public Health, 29(Supplement_3), 23–27. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz168