AI is expanding the responsibilities of nursing informatics beyond implementing and optimizing traditional healthcare technology.
AI-enabled tools can now influence clinical decision support, documentation, summarization, predictions, workflow automation, and how healthcare data are interpreted. That creates new questions for nurse informaticists:
- Is the underlying data appropriate?
- How does the tool perform in the actual clinical environment?
- Could it introduce bias or unsafe recommendations?
- Does it fit nursing workflow?
- Who is accountable for monitoring it?
Federal health IT policy is moving in the same direction. The ASTP/ONC HTI-1 rule established transparency requirements for AI and other predictive algorithms in certified health IT and requires risk-management practices addressing areas such as validity, fairness, safety, security, and privacy.
Herzing's nursing informatics curriculum incorporates emerging technologies alongside data governance, interoperability, privacy, security, ethics, workflow optimization, implementation, and clinical outcomes. AI is therefore treated not just as a new capability, but as technology that nurses need to evaluate and govern responsibly.
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