CLINICAL INFORMATICS NURSES

Henry Mayo’s clinical informatics nurses are RNs who use their clinical knowledge to support the use of technology in patient care. As electronic health records have become more sophisticated, these nurses are key to how healthcare is managed and delivered.

Achievements in 2022 included:

• Setting up a system to enter vital signs directly into MEDITECH, Henry Mayo’s electronic medical record system

• Establishing a process to load wound photos to MEDITECH

• Measuring “left without being seen” percentage to gain a better understanding of how many people leave without receiving care due to long wait times

• Implementing the Cerner system in primary, urgent and wound care

• Documenting how often patient restraints are used

• Evaluating patients who come to our ARU to ensure proper evaluation and documentation for payers, such as Medicare, to pay the hospital

• Updating billing codes

• Revising practice guidelines to reflect updated palliative care practices

• Improving the process for medical transcriptions

• Adding a module to MEDITECH to track whether patients have been immunized against COVID-19