TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hübner, Ursula
A1  - Sellemann, Björn
T1  - Nursing in the Information Age: Status Quo and Future of ICT use in German Hospitals
T2  - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
N2  - Hospital information systems (HIS) should give support to nurses in their clinical and managerial duties. Though there are statistical data on the current use of HIS systems we know only little about the numbers of nursing modules implemented. We therefore conducted a nationwide survey in Germany (n = 2182) on the current state and future plans of HIS modules including nursing applications (response rate of 27.6 %). The findings show that management applications (84 % accounting) are still more frequent than clinical applications, in particular clinical patient record systems (19 %). What applied for HIS modules in general held also true for nursing on a lower level. ‘Whereas 51 %of the hospitals had rostering systems in place only 6 % used care planning software. Priorities and plans for the future reveal no change in the rank órder of systems. We argue that in order for clinical documentation and planning systems to catch up they must be immediately rewarding for the clinicians in their daily need for information.
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-376
SP  - 376
EP  - 380
ER  -