Eric Andrew
Kristof

A privacy impact assessment, or PIA, is a structured method for identifying and assessing privacy risks across the life of a program or system by documenting what personally identifiable information is collected, how it is maintained, protected, and shared. This post explains when federal law and GDPR call for one, how a PIA differs from a HIPAA security risk analysis, what published examples show, and how nurses and informaticists contribute.

A nursing information system is the part of the health information system that handles nursing documentation, especially maintenance of the nursing record. This post explains what it includes, how it relates to the EHR and to nursing terminologies, what recent studies found about near-misses, workarounds, and mobile systems, and how nurses and nurse informaticists shape it.

An infobutton is a link inside the EHR that sends the clinical context, such as the medication, diagnosis, patient age, or user role, to a knowledge resource so the response fits the situation. This post explains the HL7 Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval standard, how requests and responses work, what a systematic review found about infobutton design, and how nurses and informaticists can use infobuttons for evidence and patient education.