Medical & Health // Adoption of New Technology Systems
Adoption of New Technology Systems
Introduction
Adoption of New Technology Systems in health care setting is progressing gradually that is usually observed in health care institutions. Hospitals are now integrating with computer professionals, software engineers, and industrial engineers to establish a more productive form of processing information systems within hospital institutions. This essay will be discussing the essentials of applying new technology systems in health care institution. It seeks to enhance nurse facilitator responsibilities to promote awareness regarding the application of new technology systems used by health care institution in particular with the use of electronic health care records. By using electronic health care records, it will be based on the book of Rogers with regard to diffusing innovations. This concentrates on the application of five qualities that determine individual attitudes towards adopting new technology in health care institutions.
As a nurse facilitator, it is important to initiate the facilitation by posting a memo to the bulletin board to mandate nurse participants who are not on duty to attend the meeting. As a nurse facilitator, it is important to impose awareness and start the workshop while applying the five qualities that determine individual’s attitudes towards adopting new technologies. Rogers (2009) indicated that the relative advantage of applying new technology aims to improve health care service objectives such as having a faster service of treatment. With regard to simplicity, nurses will be able to highlight the importance of communication as a simple yet efficient way of adapting to new technology systems. As a facilitator, defining the trialability helps nurses to explore the functions of innovative health care facilities to master the operational reliability of the facilities. It is important to measure the compatibility with existing values and practices of each technology to their respective department to ensure that the service will be rendered effectively and accurately.
For the observable results, the nurse facilitator will stress the importance of evaluating the functionality and efficiency of the innovation so that they will relate health care services with their given functions in their respective departments. One example is the use of digital electronic health records to increase better access and centralize documentation of patient’s records in the hospital. This innovative device will help nurses and doctors to document the doctor’s orders that will be encoded and recorded to the electronic health records of the patient. Electronic health information is regularly monitored by software engineers and computer analysts to prevent any suspicious activities in the electronic database network of the hospital. Example is by installing double-layered security codes to prevent hackers or computer experts from other institutions to engage in an unauthorized access that risk the confidentiality of the electronic health records(Rush, 2013).
The only problem with the adoption of new technology systems is the time or the duration that nurses will fully absorb and learn to use new innovative equipment or facilities of the hospital that can gain resistance. To prevent resistance, the nurse facilitator will be bringing engineers and computer experts to further explain the use of new innovative equipment to learn and appreciate its significance to health care services. As a nurse facilitator, it is important that this activity will be applied on a regular basis to maintain a high-level of health care service efficiency and accuracy whenever they will start using new equipment that is innovative in the health care institution. Evaluation of nurse’s knowledge regarding the name and function of the new innovative material will be applied every after workshops so that it will determine the strengths and weaknesses of the scheduled meeting that will improve the training or the facilitation process in every future meeting to diffuse innovations (Herwehe, et al., 2011).
References
Herwehe, J.; Wilbright, W.; Abrams, A.; Bergson, S.; Foxhood, J.; Kaiser, M.; Smith, L.; Xiao, K.; Zapata, A.; Magnus, M. (2011). “Implementation of an innovative, integrated electronic medical record (EMR) and public health information exchange for HIV/AIDS”. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 19 (3): 448–52.
Rogers, Everett (2009) Diffusion of Innovations. New York: Prentice hall.
Rush, Gary (2013), “The FoCuSeD™ Facilitator Guide“, Professional Misfits, Chicago ISBN 978-0-9795799-1-2.
2017/1172
