Healthc Inform Res.  2013 Dec;19(4):301-306. 10.4258/hir.2013.19.4.301.

Implementation of a Next-Generation Electronic Nursing Records System Based on Detailed Clinical Models and Integration of Clinical Practice Guidelines

• Min YH
• Park HA
• Chung E
• Lee H

• KMID: 2229506
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4258/hir.2013.19.4.301

Abstract

OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this paper is to describe the components of a next-generation electronic nursing records system ensuring full semantic interoperability and integrating evidence into the nursing records system.
METHODS
A next-generation electronic nursing records system based on detailed clinical models and clinical practice guidelines was developed at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital in 2013. This system has two components, a terminology server and a nursing documentation system.
RESULTS
The terminology server manages nursing narratives generated from entity-attribute-value triplets of detailed clinical models using a natural language generation system. The nursing documentation system provides nurses with a set of nursing narratives arranged around the recommendations extracted from clinical practice guidelines.
CONCLUSIONS
An electronic nursing records system based on detailed clinical models and clinical practice guidelines was successfully implemented in a hospital in Korea. The next-generation electronic nursing records system can support nursing practice and nursing documentation, which in turn will improve data quality.

Keyword

Computerized Medical Records Systems; Nursing Records; Semantics; Evidence-Based Practice

MeSH Terms

Data Accuracy
Evidence-Based Practice
Humans
Korea
Medical Records Systems, Computerized
Nursing Records*
Nursing*
Semantics
Seoul
Triplets

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  Figure 1 Elements of a detailed clinical model (DCM), natural language generation, and clinical practice guideline-based electronic nursing records system. ICNP: International Classification for Nursing Practice.

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  Figure 2 An example of a generated nursing narrative.

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