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A recent survey of 675 nurses in the United States indicated that 30% of respondents knew how AI is used in clinical nursing practice, but 70% had only fair or even no knowledge of the technology ...
With many nursing skills taught in a simulation lab, it is important there is enough access to this resource. However, there is a limitation on available resources, including physical space, time and equipment. [2] Virtual reality can be the answer to ensure nursing students are still gaining the required knowledge and skills to safely practice ...
Telenursing refers to the use of information technology in the provision of nursing services whenever physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses. As a field, it is part of telemedicine , and has many points of contacts with other medical and non-medical applications, such as telediagnosis ...
Health information technology (HIT) is "the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, health data, and knowledge for communication and decision making". [8]
Artificial intelligence-enhanced technology is being used as an aid in the screening of eye disease and prevention of blindness. [89] In 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the marketing of the first medical device to diagnose a specific type of eye disease, diabetic retinopathy using an artificial intelligence algorithm. [ 90 ]
In 1984, Lippincott published the first nursing-specific journal, titled Journal Computers in Nursing, which is now known as Computers Informatics Nursing (CIN). [110] As of September 7, 2016, there are roughly 235 informatics journals listed in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) catalog of journals. [111]
Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives". [1]
The use of electronic and communication technologies as a therapeutic aid to healthcare practices is commonly referred to as telemedicine [1] or eHealth. [2] [3] [4] The use of such technologies as a supplement to mainstream therapies for mental disorders is an emerging mental health treatment field which, it is argued, could improve the accessibility, effectiveness and affordability of mental ...