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Health Information Technology in Nursing

HIT stands for health information technology and involves the electronic processing, storage, and exchange of health information. HIT supports patient safety by reducing errors, improving clinical outcomes and care coordination, and facilitating evidence-based practice. It also supports safe medication administration through tools like computerized physician order entry, barcoded medication administration, and electronic medication reconciliation. While HIT provides these benefits, it must also properly address patient and data security, privacy and confidentiality.

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Health Information Technology in Nursing

HIT stands for health information technology and involves the electronic processing, storage, and exchange of health information. HIT supports patient safety by reducing errors, improving clinical outcomes and care coordination, and facilitating evidence-based practice. It also supports safe medication administration through tools like computerized physician order entry, barcoded medication administration, and electronic medication reconciliation. While HIT provides these benefits, it must also properly address patient and data security, privacy and confidentiality.

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HIT’s role

in nursing
practice.
BY JONATHAN TOVAR
2/24/2021
GNUR4106 IN TRODUCTION TO
NURSING INFORMATICS
What is HIT?
Hit stand for Health Information Technology, that is health technology that involves the
processing, storage, and exchange of health information in an electronic environment
(HHS, 2020).
How does it support patient safety?
- Reducing human errors - Reducing adverse drug reactions
- Improving clinical outcomes - Improving compliance to practice
guidelines
- Facilitating care coordination
- Multi-disciplinary communication
- Improving practice efficiencies
(Alotaibi, Federico, 2017).
- Tracking data over time. 
- Reducing medication errors
Incorporation of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
Implementing HIT will improve health services because, better information yields better health
outcomes (Institute of Medicine, 2018). The following are ways EBP has shown that HIT is
effective in the world of medicine by:
Simplicity—with uncluttered, straightforward, and consistent presentation of information and an
intuitive interface that requires a minimum effort to use without training
Accessibility—with rapid access wherever healthcare decisions are made
Sensitivity—to individual and group information preferences
Efficiency—with important information resources organized under a single log-on to reduce the
clinicians’ total burden of information management
How does it support safe medication administration
- Computerized physician order entry
- Automated dispensing
- Barcode medication administration
- Electronic medication reconciliation
- Personal health records with recorded medication allergies
- Drug interactions
- Patient verification before administration using MAR
- Drug dosage calculation (ex. mg/ml)
_ Medication administration history and time.
How does it address patient and data
security, privacy and confidentiality
Reference
Health Information Technology (2020). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services .
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Alotaibi, Y. K., & Federico, F. (2017). The impact of health information technology on patient
safety. Saudi medical journal, 38(12), 1173–1180. [Link]

Institute of Medicine (2018). Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Healthcare.
National Academies Press. [Link]

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