Information and Communication Technology

Likely the most exciting future direction of ICT in health care is the potential for new models of care to be developed and scaled across the population, and likely, new approaches to the nurse-patient relationship. It will be up to the profession of nursing to determine how the nursing role seeks to develop or steward new technology-enabled models of care moving into the future.

Examples (CASN is not affiliated nor endorses any of these example):

• Tyze – this platform is an online social network platform that can be used to bring care and services to an individual in need
• Maple – a fee-based mobile application that allows users to connect with a physician on demand for a virtual healthcare consultation
• 23andMe – a fee-based personal genomics solution that provides users with a direct-to-consumer genetic testing solution.