Health Technologies

The nurse practicing in informatics works with a wide variety of health technologies, from complex patient monitoring systems to automated drug dispensing cabinets. It is necessary to have a working knowledge of all manner of software (vendor or open source) and hardware. In this rapidly changing field, it is a challenge to keep up with all the innovations. The goal remains having all necessary patient information available to everyone who needs it at the point of care. PDAs can help meet this goal and are becoming popular as bedside tools for reference, documentation, and data collection.