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tools in teaching NI in Philippines
1. Strategies and Tools in Teaching Nursing
Informatics in Philippines
Sheryl M. Ochea MSN, RN
Co-Founder, PRO
Philippine Nursing Informatics Association
2. PART A: WHAT IS NURSING
INFORMATICS?
International Medical Informatics Association - Nursing Informatics
special interest group (IMIA-NI) states that:
“Nursing Informatics science and practice integrates nursing, its
information and knowledge and their management with
information and communication technologies to promote the
health of people, families and communities world wide.”
An international viewpoint was adopted at the 1998 meeting of the
International Medical Informatics Association Workgroup on Nursing
Informatics in Seoul, Korea: Nursing informatics is the integration of nursing,
its information and information management with information processing and
communication technology, to support the health of people worldwide.
3. PART B: WHY SHOULD WE LEARN
ABOUT NURSING INFORMATICS
The study of nursing informatics
Article Abstract:Nurses' decision-making needs present challenges to developing nursing computer information
systems. Much of the data that is useful to nurses is not measured by physical instrumentation nor can it be readily
coded as numerical or alphanumeric data. Nurses often require descriptive data, but whole-text data processing is in
its infancy. Data must be accessed, analyzed, recombined, and presented in a useful format, but current data
processing methods are also ill-suited to nursing needs.
author: Graves, Judith R., Corcoran-Perry, Sheila
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, WK Health
Publication Name: Holistic Nursing Practice
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0887-9311
Year: 1996
4. PART B: WHY SHOULD WE LEARN
ABOUT NURSING INFORMATICS
superhighway to nursing science and practice
Article Abstract:
Information technology holds great promise of enhancing nursing science and practice. It can collect and analyze
enormous amounts of data from multiple sources and over long lengths of time. It can broaden the ability of nurses to
consult, collaborate, and exchange information. It can track trends and ensure that care is effective and evidence
based. However, nurses must participate in designing systems to ensure that they support holistic nursing care.
author: Ryan, Sheila A., Nagle, Lynn M.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, WK Health
Publication Name: Holistic Nursing Practice
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0887-9311
Year: 1996
5. •PART C:
•HOW CAN WE TEACH
NURSING INFORMATICS
EFFECTIVELY?
6. CONCEPTS AND
STRATEGIES
Adult Learning Theory
goals and objectives are important
origin of their own learning
professional development learning and day to day living are related and relevant
direct and concrete experiences
ego involved
receive feedback
participate in small-group activities
accommodate diversity
facilitate learning
11. open-source
source code
free distribution
license must be technology-neutral
license must not restrict other software
derived works
open source
integrity of author’s source code
license must not be specific to product
no discrimination against fields of endeavor
distribution of license
no discrimination against persons or groups
60. Healthcare Blog at ZiffDavis' ZDNet by Dana Blankenhorn:
■ What is stalling open source in healthcare? 08/2/2007
■ What open source can teach medical computing 07/24/2007
■ Open Source Challenge to Medical IT 07/25/2007
Google in Public Health
■ Larry Brilliant announces new Public Health group at google April 2007
■ INSTEDD - International Networked System for Total Early Disease Detection Larry Brilliant and Google
■ Google Earth Outreach. Google Earth Pro for non-profits
■ Google Summer of Code OpenMRS (news release)
IBM in Public Health
■ Eclipse, Open Source and Pandemics interview with Dan Ford, a senior research staff member at IBM Research and a member of
IBM's Healthcare and Life Sciences group. June 2007
■ IBM Gives Health Records Tech to Open Source Community (news release)
CDC
■ Open Source Development for Public Health: A Primer with Examples of Existing Enterprise Ready Open Source Applications Paper
given at 2006 Public Health Information Network meeting at CDC by Stuart Turner, University of California Davis Health System
■ Crespo R. "Virtual community health promotion". Preventing Chronic Disease 2007 Jul at CDC
■ (PPT) Health Information Exchange (HIE) Cookbook: Specific Guidance (How-to) create an information exchange node utilizing open
source and PHIN distributed software for health Presentation at 2007 Public Health Information Network Conference by Vaughn
McMullin - Vanguard Consulting Group August 27, 2007.
61. Other
■ Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) Canada
■ Hans Rosling compelling talk on Global Health at TED July 5, 2006
■ SlashDot discussion from 2004 perhaps (too old to be of use)
PLoS ONE's Public Health and Epidemiology articles
UNC-Chapel Hill
■ Usability of Personal Health Records 12/27/2006
NCSU's Center for Open Software Engineering
■ Dr. Annie Anton has been working on open source Electronic Health Records (EHR) and on HIPAA compliance within the context of
EHRs.
■ Dr Laurie Williams' classes have developed an open source role based healthcare application for the last two years -- iTrust
■ Dr. Laurie Williams established a collaboration with Holt Anderson, theexecutive director of NCHICA. From the website NCHICA is
"*The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA)* is a nationally recognized nonprofit
consortium that serves as an open, effective and neutral forum for health information technology (HIT) initiatives that improve health
and care in North Carolina.
■ NCHICA has [http://www.nchica.org/Membership/Members.asp more than 100 NC companies working together on Healthcare IT.
Software sites
CDC's National Office of Public Health Genomics Open Source Project An open source infrastructure for managing knowledge and finding
potential collaborators in a domain-specific subset of PubMed
Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler aka STEM at the Eclipse Open Health Framework and more on STEM at IBM
62. european public health alliance
bioFOX Bioinformatics extension for FireFox
Linux for Clinics Linux for Clinics at Launchpad Linux for Clinics at SourceForge
eclipse and public health (ibiblio is the eclipse bittorrent host now)
NetEPI Free, open source, network-enabled tools for epidemiology and public health practice
Open source tools for population health epidemiology (more NetEpi in .AU)
Open Source Health Records Exchange
Open Source Health at UC-Davis seems to be in limbo last update 12/21/2006
IBM Research's Interoperable Health Information Infrastructure
Open source GIS for public health and policy research
iHRIS - Intrahealth's HRIS for Capacity Project
DHIS - District Health Information System: aggregates and analyzes health management information from the district to the central level
Care2x - Health Facility Information System. By far the most popular OS health facility IS.
WorldVistA WorldVistA was formed to extend and collaboratively improve the VistA electronic health record and health information system for
use outside of its original setting. The system was originally developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for use in its veterans
hospitals, outpatient clinics, and nursing homes. WorldVistA has a number of development efforts aimed at adding new software modules
such as pediatrics, obstetrics, and other functions not used in the veterans' healthcare setting.
Medsphere Medsphere is to OpenVista as Red Hat is to Linux
OpenMRS - see above for Google press release
63. TriSano® is an open source, highly configurable, comprehensive surveillance and outbreak management application for global public
health and healthcare. It allows local, state, federal and international agencies to identify, investigate, and mitigate communicable and
chronic diseases, environmental hazards, and bioterrorism events.
APHL (Association of Public Health Laboratories) APHL open source subcommittee - no code released yet, no website, license unknown at
this time PowerPoint presentation at Joint Public Health Informatics Meeting
IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) - Their first work to adapt clinical laboratory reports for public health (wiki) Their joint whitepaper
towards recommendations for next year's work in IHE (wiki)
CHITS (Community Health Information Tracking System) - Philipines
Cell-Life - HIV/AIDS management tools
D-Tree - Diagnosis treatment via mobile technologies in developing countries
DataDyne
EpiHandy - Open source tool for data collection and management developed by Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway
in collaboration with Makerere University, Uganda and others. Strong focus on data security and versioning. Uses handheld computers for
data collection. New releases will focus on usability in Clinical Trials. Other products that use EpiHandy forms engine include WHO Anthro
2005, MobileHRS (Mobile Household Registration System) for demographic surveillance and a promising mobile client to OpenMRS
developed by University of Makerere Uganda.
Software with potential Public Health uses
elgg - open source social networking
Vendor Relationship Management A Harvard/Berkman project that is the otherside of Customer Relationship Management systems. Doc
Searls now suggests that VRM could be used for Healthcare Relationship Management 08-14-2007
64. Launchpad - Ubuntu's answer to SourceForge
Ubuntu, Edubuntu, etc Linux designed with the 3rd world in mind
From PLoS:
Topaz / Fedora / Mulgara
PLoS ONE is hosted on this framework and eventually all PLoS journals will migrate. There's some information here
Fedora recently received a $4.9M grant to develop a new platform based on the Fedora and Topaz architectures. DPubS (Digital Publishing
System) also runs on Fedora.
Rhaptos A framework built on Zope/Plone by Rice University with custom extensions. Large community and many projects. Connexions runs
on Rhaptos.
Alfresco An enterprise content management (ECM) framework that provides document management, collaboration, workflow engine, etc.
Magnolia An enterprise content management system based on JSR-170.
Software aggregation sites
Open Healthcare Framework and The Open Healthcare Framework blog at Eclipse.org Contributors to OHF include Jiva Medical, Impriva,
Mayo Clinic, and IBM
Software from SourceForge
SourceForge projects resulting in a search for "public health" (about 1140 at the time of this entry, but many of them not active) Evaluating
which of these are useful and active will be a good but challenging project
65. The software list below was obtained by doing an "exact match" search on the string "Public
Health" on the SourceForge site.
In no way is this list exhaustive!
OSHIP - Open Source Health Information Platform OSHIP - Open Source Health Information Platform is a Python implementation of the
openEHR electronic health record specifications http://www.openehr.org. OSHIP is designed as a Zope 3 component and requires Zope 3 to
function as an EHR server.
District Health Information System (DHIS) The District Health Information System (DHIS) provides for data entry, report generation, and
analysis. It is part of a larger initiative for health care data in developing countries, called the Health Information System Programme HISP.
PHIELD The PHIELD PROJECT (Public Health Integration & Exchange of Lab Data) is focused on a cost effective solution to delivering
laboratory data of public health significance to the appropriate legal jurisdictions.
Water and Sewer Licensing The goal of CUPHD Water project is to build an open source e-infrastructure for water licensing and inspections
for health maintenance workers at the Champaign Public Health District (of Illinois), and other public health districts.
NetEpi The NetEpi project is developing open-source, network-enabled tools for epidemiology and public health practice.
eBed eBed is a web-based application suite designed to assist hospitals manage the daily census of patients and to maintain information
about each room. eBed has been modeled to manage patient flow and occupancy status of beds of any type and location.
Public Health and Hospital management Building a software which helps to manage public health by collecting data elements, indicator from
every units and sending aggregated data to upper units. The system aims to improve capacity of decision maker by providing exact and full
data in time.
Simple QUArantine Tracking System SQUATS - the Simple QUArantine Tracking System - is a web based isolation/quarantine tracking and
monitoring system for use by hospitals and public health. This project is currently under rapid development in response to the recent SARS
66. The software list below was obtained by doing an "exact match" search on the string "Public
Health" on the SourceForge site.
In no way is this list exhaustive!
OSHIP - Open Source Health Information Platform OSHIP - Open Source Health Information Platform is a Python implementation of the
openEHR electronic health record specifications http://www.openehr.org. OSHIP is designed as a Zope 3 component and requires Zope 3 to
function as an EHR server.
District Health Information System (DHIS) The District Health Information System (DHIS) provides for data entry, report generation, and
analysis. It is part of a larger initiative for health care data in developing countries, called the Health Information System Programme HISP.
PHIELD The PHIELD PROJECT (Public Health Integration & Exchange of Lab Data) is focused on a cost effective solution to delivering
laboratory data of public health significance to the appropriate legal jurisdictions.
Water and Sewer Licensing The goal of CUPHD Water project is to build an open source e-infrastructure for water licensing and inspections
for health maintenance workers at the Champaign Public Health District (of Illinois), and other public health districts.
NetEpi The NetEpi project is developing open-source, network-enabled tools for epidemiology and public health practice.
eBed eBed is a web-based application suite designed to assist hospitals manage the daily census of patients and to maintain information
about each room. eBed has been modeled to manage patient flow and occupancy status of beds of any type and location.
Public Health and Hospital management Building a software which helps to manage public health by collecting data elements, indicator from
every units and sending aggregated data to upper units. The system aims to improve capacity of decision maker by providing exact and full
data in time.
Simple QUArantine Tracking System SQUATS - the Simple QUArantine Tracking System - is a web based isolation/quarantine tracking and
monitoring system for use by hospitals and public health. This project is currently under rapid development in response to the recent SARS
67. outbreak.
EpiSPIDER EpiSPIDER is a public health healthcare application that integrates of information from different distributed electronic resources
and performs semantic processing of text visually represent information using graphic display, GIS and mapping technologies
