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Remote Nursing and Hospital at Home

Remote nursing and home hospitals are innovative ideas that are revolutionizing healthcare delivery systems by bringing medical services into patients' homes. In the last few years, advances in technology and healthcare infrastructure have made it possible for nurses to deliver quality care from a distance. The transition provides patients with comfort and access to medical services. Hospital-at-home programs also provide patients with acute care in their homes. Therefore, remote nursing and hospitals at home facilitate patient-centered care and improve healthcare outcomes.

Benefits of Remote Nursing and Hospitals at Home

Remote nursing and hospital-at-home programs provide several benefits to the provision of care. The leading benefit of using these programs is that they promote effective preventive services and patient-focused treatments. These services contribute to the reduction of hospital readmission cases and improved recovery among patients. The application of these programs also increases accessibility to healthcare services. Most of the patients who underwent distant nursing and home-hospital care reported positive changes in the way they accessed services (McCullough et al., 2020). Therefore, remote nursing and home hospitals are the most efficient patient care alternatives.

Challenges in Data Integration

House hospital programs and remote nursing data integration into the electronic health record (EHR) system have various challenges. Interoperability is one of the key problems that is faced during the process of integration. The problem results from lack of streamlined data transfer and multi-device remote monitoring. Security of data is another issue, as sending crucial information about patients over networks can lead to unauthorized access (Huang et al., 2020). Another major challenge is the alignment of the telecare regimen with the mainstream healthcare system. The process is complicated and therefore needs standardization to guarantee delivery of service to the customers and correct documentation.

Data Integration Success Strategies

Several strategies can be used to gain effective data integration between remote nursing and hospital at-home programs and the EHR system. Health informatics tools can help in the exchange of data between systems and minimizing interoperability. They can help in standardizing the data exchange procedure among different systems. The use of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) for data exchange protocol standardization can also improve health data interoperability across systems (Vorisek et al., 2022). Standardization will ensure data uniformity and ease of exchange among several applications. Effective communication and collaboration between the healthcare staff and IT experts will also solve security needs and governance models. These methods will align information transmission and will prompt the flexibility of data transmission.

Role of Clinical Informatics

Unified integration of patient data from remote nursing and hospital at-home programs with HER systems relies on clinical informatics. Clinical decision support systems uses the patient data to offer real-time insights that allow clinicians to make an informed decision and provide highly personalized care. Analytical tools that are capable of extensively analyzing the data of the telemonitoring devices and sensors utilized in remote care programs. They facilitate quality enhancement of remote care services with the help of ongoing care service monitoring and evaluation required to comply with evidence-based practices and regulatory standards. Thus, clinical informatics is crucial for improving the productivity and efficacy of home care nursing and hospital-at-home programs.

Conclusion

Remote nursing and hospital-at-home programs already present a change in healthcare delivery. They provide patients with convenient access to high-quality care and reduce burdens on traditional hospitals. The key to the successful implementation of these programs is integrating data into the EHR system. The system enables the provision of personalized, efficient, and coordinated care remotely. Therefore, the use of telecommunication technologies and cloud-based EHR systems will enable healthcare organizations to transform the process of home healthcare.

References

Huang, C., Koppel, R., McGreevey III, J. D., Craven, C. K., & Schreiber, R. (2020). Transitions from one electronic health record to another: challenges, pitfalls, and recommendations. Applied clinical informatics, 11(05), 742–754.

McCullough, K., Whitehead, L., Bayes, S., Williams, A., & Cope, V. (2020). The delivery of primary health care in remote communities: A grounded theory study of the perspective of nurses. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 102, 103474.

Vorisek, C. N., Lehne, M., Klopfenstein, S. A. I., Mayer, P. J., Bartschke, A., Haese, T., & Thun, S. (2022). Fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) for interoperability in health research: systematic review. JMIR medical informatics, 10(7), e35724.

Submitted by Guteta Disasa