Abstract Purpose of the Study: The smart use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is widely seen as a means of enhancing the quality of aged care …
Background The provision of residential aged care is underpinned by information, and is reliant upon systems that adequately capture and effectively utilise and communicate this …
AA Filipova - CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2013 - journals.lww.com
The purpose of this study was to determine the levels of automation for 21 clinical functions and the benefits and barriers to electronic health records use in skilled nursing facilities in …
D Liu, NG Castle - Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This study describes nursing homes' use of Minimum Data Set (MDS) software and identifies features that are available in the most commonly used software packages. Data came from …
J Goldwater, Y Harris - Ageing International, 2011 - Springer
As the American population continues to age, there is an increased focus on person- centered care, which offers tremendous promise to improve both the quality and efficiency of …
D Liu, NG Castle, J Diesel - American Journal of Medical …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Information technology (IT) has been recommended to improve the quality of health care. Nursing homes use very little IT, but they have been required by the federal government to …
M Jones, MH Samore, M Carter, MA Rubin - American journal of infection …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the implementation of infection control (IC) programs and information technology (IT) infrastructure in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). We …
C Spinelli-Moraski - Research in Gerontological Nursing, 2013 - search.proquest.com
CONCLUSION Nurses should be active participants and leaders of interprofessional teams that will design and test the effectiveness of HIT systems for nursing homes. Additional …