NURS 1000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Electronic Health Record, Health Informatics, Personal Health Record
14 Nov 2017
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Technology: is the knowledge and use of tools, machines, materials and process to help solve human problems. Informatics: is the science that encompasses the information of science and computer science to study the process, management and retrieval of information. Science and practice [which] integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, and their management, with information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families and communities worldwide casn (imia, 2009) The american nurses association defines nursing informatics as a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. Ni [nursing informatics] supports consumers, patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings. The support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology. It is a form of health information technology that is geared toward better health care decision making based on the consumer"s perspective.
