Progress is being made on accessing comparable and sharable patient data within electronic health records (EHRs) and contextual data about the environment in which care is delivered. Since the first gathering of national nursing leaders in 2013, a coordinated movement has gained substantial momentum to align policies and systems to better standardize, integrate, and use the valuable patient and family information nurses to improve health outcomes.\u00a0 By convening the decision makers and leaders from practice, government agencies, system and software vendors, professional associations, and education and research institutions, the University of Minnesota\u2013led national initiative is aligning efforts to effectively identify and remove long-standing barriers to comparable and sharable nurse-sensitive data.<\/p>\n
What is the point of this work? Our vision is one of standardizing and sharing the information nurses gather in EHRs to advance insights and evidence used to prevent, diagnose, treat, and evaluate health conditions.\u00a0 Additionally, the data that describes the context of the workplace has been standardized and is now moving toward implementation to explain care delivery factors that influence patient outcomes, such as staffing, turnover, or nurse satisfaction.<\/p>\n
At the fourth annual Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference<\/em> held earlier this summer in Minneapolis, MN, 170 participants heard advice from Pamela Cipriano, President of the American Nurses Association (ANA); Deborah Trautman, CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing; Norma Lang, a long-time nurse leader in quality and outcomes; and representatives from the Patient-Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) and legislature \u00a0on how to advance the policy agenda to integrate these essential data.<\/p>\n The Big Data summit, with year-round working groups, is clear evidence that a compelling shared vision, collaboration, and partnership within and interdisciplinary teams can find solutions for the common good. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Here are a few examples of what we have achieved over four years:<\/p>\n Collecting contextual data enables health care systems to objectively evaluate and compare the effectiveness of their nursing care, staffing, and facilities \u2013 unit-by-unit and shift-by-shift. The Nursing Management Minimum Data Set (initiated by Diane (Gardner) Huber and Connie Delaney in 1997) supports administrative and management decision making that aligns the needs of the patient with the skills and knowledge of nursing providers, and has recently been added to an internationally adopted standard.<\/p>\n Fueled by a shared vision of a more efficient health system, leaders from major vendors, government, and academia are collaborating more than ever.\u00a0 The volunteers who have advanced this work recognize that each accomplishment is dependent upon progress across disciplines.\u00a0 After 35 years of discussion, leaders,\u00a0 care providers\u00a0 and payers \u00a0are integrating their systems and expertise to support \u00a0nurses in delivering the most \u00a0effective health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Progress is being made on accessing comparable and sharable patient data within electronic health records (EHRs) and contextual data about the environment in which care is delivered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1507],"post_tag":[],"content-type":[1492],"coauthors":[1654],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","content-type-news-and-announcements"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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