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Social Determinants of Health in Digital Health Policies: an International Environmental Scan Open

Jiyoun Song, Mollie Hobensack, Lydia Sequeira, Hwayeon Danielle Shin, Shauna Davies , et al. · 2024

Summary Introduction: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) include factors such as economic stability, education, social and community context, healthcare access, and the physical environment, which shape an individual's health and well-be…

Going Beyond Surface Language: An Exploratory Evaluation of Nursing Ontology Mappings Open

Lorraine J. Block, Nicholas R. Hardiker · 2024

A range of approaches have been used to develop and evaluate terminology mapping. In seeking to enhance existing methods this exploratory feasibility study examined a small subset of existing equivalency mappings between the International …

Family Care in Members with COVID-19 Using Telenursing Open

Maricarmen Moreno Tochihuitl, Carmen Cruz-Rivera, Rayo Cruz-Rivera, María del Rosario Ricardez-Ramírez, Lizamar Lorena Ramos-Sanchez , et al. · 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the infection and death of millions of people around the world. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention have issued recommendations for caregivers of pa…

Fairness in Classifying and Grouping Health Equity Information Open

Ruinan Jin, Xiaoxiao Li, Lorraine J. Block, Ivan Beschastnikh, Leanne M. Currie , et al. · 2024

This paper explores the balance between fairness and performance in machine learning classification, predicting the likelihood of a patient receiving anti-microbial treatment using structured data in community nursing wound care electronic…

Interpretive Description in Computerized Ontology Development: Rigour Open

Lorraine J. Block, Sabrina T. Wong, Nicholas R. Hardiker, Lillian Hung, Leanne M. Currie · 2024

This poster presents the use of Interpretive Description in ontology development. The methods selected attended to the need for quality and rigour.

Future Needs in Nursing Informatics – Preliminary Findings from the Global Nursing Informatics Survey Open

Hanna von Gerich, Dari Alhuwail, Martha K Badger, Lorraine J. Block, Gabrielle Jacklin Eler , et al. · 2024

This study investigates the evolving landscape of nursing informatics by conducting a follow-up survey initiated by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Students and Emerging Professionals (SEP) Nursing Informatics (NI)…

Technological Challenges and Solutions in Emergency Remote Teaching for Nursing: An International Cross-Sectional Survey Open

Eunjoo Jeon, Laura‐Maria Peltonen, Lorraine J. Block, Charlene Ronquillo, Jude L. Tayaben , et al. · 2024

Objectives: With the sudden global shift to online learning modalities, this study aimed to understand the unique challenges and experiences of emergency remote teaching (ERT) in nursing education.Methods: We conducted a comprehensive onli…

Evaluating the representation of disaster hazards in SNOMED CT: gaps and opportunities Open

Zerina Lokmic‐Tomkins, Lorraine J. Block, Shauna Davies, Lisa Reid, Charlene Ronquillo , et al. · 2023

Objective Climate change, an underlying risk driver of natural disasters, threatens the environmental sustainability, planetary health, and sustainable development goals. Incorporating disaster-related health impacts into electronic health…

Representation of Environmental Concepts Associated with Health Impacts in Computer Standardized Clinical Terminologies Open

Lorraine J. Block, Erika Lozada‐Perezmitre, Hwayoung Cho, Shauna Davies, Jisan Lee , et al. · 2023

Objective: To evaluate the representation of environmental concepts associated with health impacts in standardized clinical terminologies. Methods: This study used a descriptive approach with methods informed by a procedural framework for …

Assessing the carbon footprint of digital health interventions: a scoping review Open

Zerina Lokmic‐Tomkins, Shauna Davies, Lorraine J. Block, Lindy Cochrane, Alan Dorin , et al. · 2022

Objective Integration of environmentally sustainable digital health interventions requires robust evaluation of their carbon emission life-cycle before implementation in healthcare. This scoping review surveys the evidence on available env…

The Untapped Potential of Nursing and Allied Health Data for Improved Representation of Social Determinants of Health and Intersectionality in Artificial Intelligence Applications: A Rapid Review Open

Charlene Ronquillo, James Mitchell, Dari Alhuwail, Laura‐Maria Peltonen, Maxim Topaz , et al. · 2022

Objectives: The objective of this paper is to draw attention to the currently underused potential of clinical documentation by nursing and allied health professions to improve the representation of social determinants of health (SDoH) and …

Description of the Process to Validate the Mexican Nurse Informatics Competency Self-Assessment Scale Open

Erika Lozada‐Perezmitre, Erick Landeros-Olvera, Rosa María Galicia-Aguilar, Laura‐Maria Peltonen, Raji Nibber , et al. · 2021

Nurses need to have sufficient competencies in nursing informatics to be able to provide safe and efficient care. The Self-Assessment of Nursing Informatics Competencies Scale (SANICS) has been developed and validated as a self-report meas…

Mapping of Wound Infection Concepts Open

Lorraine J. Block, Charlene Ronquillo, Nicholas R. Hardiker, Sabrina T. Wong, Leanne M. Currie · 2021

Wound infection is a serious health care complication. Standardized clinical terminologies could be leveraged to support the early identification of wound infection. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the representation of wound inf…

Nursing Informatics Research Trends: Findings from an International Survey Open

Laura‐Maria Peltonen, Raji Nibber, Lorraine J. Block, Charlene Ronquillo, Erika Lozada‐Perezmitre , et al. · 2021

This follow-up survey on trends in Nursing Informatics (NI) was conducted by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Student and Emerging Professionals (SEP) group as a cross-sectional study in 2019. There were 455 respons…

Artificial Intelligence -based technologies in nursing: A scoping literature review of the evidence Open

Hanna von Gerich, Hans Moen, Lorraine J. Block, Charlene H. Chu, Haley Deforest , et al. · 2021

Contemporary research on applications of artificial intelligence -based technologies in nursing mainly cover the earlier stages of technology development, leaving scarce evidence of the impact of these technologies and implementation aspec…

Exploring prevalence of wound infections and related patient characteristics in homecare using natural language processing Open

Kyungmi Woo, Jiyoun Song, Victoria Adams, Lorraine J. Block, Leanne M. Currie , et al. · 2021

We aimed to create and validate a natural language processing algorithm to extract wound infection‐related information from nursing notes. We also estimated wound infection prevalence in homecare settings and described related patient char…

Emergency Remote Learning in Nursing Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic Open

Eunjoo Jeon, Laura‐Maria Peltonen, Lorraine J. Block, Charlene Ronquillo, Jude L. Tayaben , et al. · 2021

Due to the corona (COVID-19) pandemic, several countries are currently conducting non-face-to-face education. Therefore, teachers of nursing colleges have been carrying out emergency remote education. This study developed a questionnaire t…

A nursing informatics response to COVID‐19: Perspectives from five regions of the world Open

Suleman Atique, John Robert Bautista, Lorraine J. Block, Jung Jae Lee, Erika Lozada‐Perezmitre , et al. · 2020

The 21st century has seen several infectious disease outbreaks that have turned into epidemics and pandemics including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) which began in Asia in 2003 (Poon, Guan, Nicholls, Yuen, & Peiris, 2004), follo…

Emerging Professionals’ Observations of Opportunities and Challenges in Nursing Informatics Open

Laura‐Maria Peltonen, Raji Nibber, Adrienne Lewis, Lorraine J. Block, Lisiane Pruinelli , et al. · 2019

The importance of nursing informatics (NI) is highlighted because of changing healthcare landscapes in response to rising digital health and technology integration and use. However, NI education, competency requirements and roles are not s…

The current state of Nursing Informatics – An international cross-sectional survey Open

Laura‐Maria Peltonen, Lisiane Pruinelli, Charlene Ronquillo, Raji Nibber, Erika Lozarda Peresmitre , et al. · 2019

An international survey to explore current and future trends in Nursing Informatics (NI) was done in 2015. This article explores responses to questions about: what should be done to further develop NI as an independent discipline; existing…

Visibility of Community Nursing Within an Administrative Health Classification System: Evaluation of Content Coverage Open

Lorraine J. Block, Leanne M. Currie, Nicholas R. Hardiker, Gillian Strudwick · 2019

Overall, the content mapping yielded similar results to other content mapping studies in nursing. However, it also found areas of missing concept coverage, difficulties with interterminology mapping, and further need to develop mapping met…

Visibility of Community Nursing Within an Administrative Health Classification System: Evaluation of Content Coverage (Preprint) Open

Lorraine J. Block, Leanne M. Currie, Nicholas R. Hardiker, Gillian Strudwick · 2018

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization is in the process of developing an international administrative classification for health called the International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI). The purpose of ICHI is to provide a…

Emerging Professional's View of the Landscape: Nursing Informatics Curriculum, Competencies, and Career Opportunities Open

Adrienne Lewis, Lorraine J. Block, Laura‐Maria Peltonen, Lisiane Pruinelli, Maxim Topaz , et al. · 2018

The curriculum associated with nursing informatics (NI) education is not standardized, therefore the perspectives of new and emerging nurse informaticians is important. How these curricula differences affect career opportunities of new nur…

Mapping nursing wound care data elements to SNOMED-CT Open

Lorraine J. Block · 2017

Documentation is a professional responsibility in nursing because it facilitates communication, promotes good nursing care, and acts as a valuable method to demonstrate that legal and agency standards are followed. Nurses are increasingly …

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