A Virtual Platform for Electronic Health Record (EHR) Education for Nursing Students: Moving from In-House Solutions to the Cloud
Date
2014
Authors
Kushniruk, Andre W.
Kuo, Mu-Hsing
Parapini, Eric
Borycki, Elizabeth M.
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Publisher
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Abstract
There is a need to develop cost effective ways to bring hands-on education about essential information technologies, such as electronic health record (EHR) systems to nursing students, nursing faculty and practitioners. This is especially the case as worldwide there is an increased deployment of these systems and they are transforming the practice of healthcare. However, due to technical, financial and knowledge limitations, many nursing schools and programs do not have an adequate way to bring such technology into their classes and curricula. In this paper we describe an approach to developing Web-based EHR education that allows students from any Web-accessible location to access and work with real EHR systems remotely over the Internet for learning purposes. In this paper we describe our work in moving this approach to a cloud-based solution to allow access to EHRs for educational purposes from any location with Web access and to do so in a way that is both educationally sound and cost effective.
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Keywords
electronic health records, nursing education, medical education, health informatics education, cloud computing
Citation
Kushniruk, A.W., Kuo, M-H., Parapini, E. & Borycki, E.M. (2014). A virtual platform for electronic health record (EHR) education for nursing students: Moving from inhouse solutions to the cloud. In Saranto, K., Weaver, C.A. & Chang, P. (Eds.), Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 201: Nursing Informatics 2014 (pp.48-54). Amsterdam, NL: IOS Press.