Title: The Right Balance –Technology and Patient Care | HIMSS
Headings: The Right Balance –Technology and Patient Care
The Right Balance –Technology and Patient Care
Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

Content: This includes research related to nursing informatics and the use of technology in healthcare. Before the digital age, nurses were utilizing paper forms to document important patient information. A significant factor in the nursing profession and healthcare systems is the transition to electronic documentation. Electronic documentation contains flow sheets that help in assembling information about the patient's needs, improve the patient's information accuracy, and enhance the quality of patient care. A well designed information system can facilitate and provide an easier and faster information flow that is needed for efficient documentation processing. Nurses play an essential role in patient's safety where the quality of the nursing environment and electronic documentation has a positive influence on patients. The electronic documentation method has evolved to provide a plan of care for patients, efficient communication between clinicians, and direct patient care processes. Nurses are very diligent in coordinating, monitoring and delivering patient care to guarantee effective documentation flow. Nursing computer based software allows nurses to collect, store, recover data and integrate clinical data with nursing management resources. Among multiple healthcare organizations, nurses represent the largest technology user group.