Introduction
The proficiency of nursing informatics and modern technologies is that it stresses on the resolutions for complex issues. Nursing technologies such as smartphones and social media have produced significant effects in the area of healthcare and has facilitated in communication information and to offer quality care of the patients. In current times, Smartphone and social media have brought significant opportunities as well problems for the doctors and nurses in the healthcare work. Several studies have proved that intensive use of Smartphone and social media by health care providers has distracted their minds from professional field. The pervasive usage of smartphones and social media by health care providers has risked the security, confidentiality and health of the patients to a great extent. In contrast, smartphones and social media have also emerged as the significant source of collecting and aggregating essential data to add and change outdated practices and information of health care system .
Influence of Technology on Healthcare Service
Nursing informatics and technology covers systems and tools for collecting data, creating information, and sharing knowledge between different entities and individuals in the healthcare organization. The increasing use technology and informatics in the healthcare is essential for accumulating knowledge and data to assist health care professionals in the decision-making process. In recent years, technology has also contributed to the regulation of nursing by integrating expertise of individuals working in the nursing sector and science of nursing. The increasing use of smartphones and social media in the healthcare services has progressed the nursing practice and has offered essential nursing informatics that is helpful for the hospital management. It is analyzed that social media can be practiced within health care system to develop the care provider –patient relationship similarly to what different websites of social media have done to raise understanding level among friends, relative and colleagues. Considering the use of Smartphone, it is analyzed that innovative software's applications in Smartphone are beneficial for health care professional and patients in numerous ways. In recent days, the Smartphone are also used as medical technologies where software applications such as out-of-clinic and peripheral devices including blood pressure cuffs, weight scales, and pulse oximeters allow the patient to have information and instructions about their health. The communication technologies that are utilized to assist in the care of patients are useful in the providing quality health care to all kinds of patients. Information and technology have impacted the entire profession of nursing by reforming its education and practices. Contemporary, the use of high-quality electronic sources in the nursing practice can bring practical outcomes in the care processes. In current times, the increasing cost of treatment and complex methods of therapies need advance approaches to attain vital information that can facilitate the patients in their health care treatment. In such cases, technologies including Smartphone and social media are beneficial to drive the personalization and offer quality health care to the patients .
The innovative healthcare technologies have introduced great devices that were previously found only in the clinics and hospital. These are influencing peripheral medical devices incorporate lung function (spirometer), inner ear visualization (otoscope), heart function (ECG) and sonography (ultrasound). The purpose of these devices is to facilitate the patients to control and examine their health care and to make it feasible for the patients to collect their relevant medical data through Smartphone. The medical applications software's of Smartphone are of substantial importance as they record the data and information of patient’s heath in their personal profile. Also, this application can also provide detailed information on patient health care in the visual mode including table and graph including significant information and explanation that are useful to the patient .
The role of social media in the healthcare service of the patient is of substantial importance. The use of social websites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube that by health care professional can produce positive as well as negative results for the health care providers and their professions. Social networking helps the nursing profession in obtaining personal and vocational knowledge but on the other hand, it also risks the privacy of the patients too. Experts believe that intense use of social media by health care providers can impact the reputation personal profession of the doctors and nurses. However, the use of social media by health care providers can also help the society in preventing from diseases and disasters. In many countries, the social media has played the significant role at the time of natural disaster as a mean of broadcasting essential information and warning to public at the mass level. The experts believe that social media can prove to be beneficial for mobilizing people at the time of natural disaster and informing with immediate plans and actions to prevent from injury. Besides, the social media can render its valuable services to the people by delivering correct and relevant information by health care professional and experts. In many parts of the world, social media is widely used by the health care providers to spread awareness about newly found diseases and safety measures to prevent from harm or death .
Principles of Integrity, Ethics, and Legal Requirement
The health care professionals must acknowledge that communication through social websites prohibits the nurses to share personal information of the patients.
According to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the health care professional is liable to protect the personal information and data of the patients and to ensure that no mismanagement of the patient record takes place with the use of social media or Smartphone. The doctors and nurses must handle the data of the patient with integrity because breach of confidentiality due to misuse of technology can result in permanent loss of sanction .
Conclusion
It must be ensured that the use of advanced technology in health care services is not misused, and the practices of technology follow the standard of healthcare. The health care professionals are also obliged to consider the ethical limits that are recommended for the patients and the health care provider. Also, the smartphones and social websites should be used for the purpose of health improvement of the patient. It must be realized by every healthcare professional that technology such as Smartphone and social media can be utilized with the intention to improve treatment method and to offer quality health care to the patient. Furthermore, the caretaker must ensure that use of technology does not affect patients and their essential records in any way.
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