NURSING – Data Privacy And Security Discussion

Health Informatics

Kathryn J. Hannah Pamela Hussey Margaret A. Kennedy Marion J. Ball Editors

Introduction to Nursing Informatics Fourth Edition

Health Informatics

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/1114

Kathryn J. Hannah • Pamela Hussey Margaret A. Kennedy • Marion J. Ball Editors

Introduction to Nursing Informatics

Fourth Edition

ISBN 978-1-4471-2998-1 ISBN 978-1-4471-2999-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-2999-8 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht

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Editors Kathryn J. Hannah, PhD, RN Calgary Alberta Canada

Pamela Hussey, RN, RCN, MEd, MSc, PhD Dublin City University Dublin Ireland

Margaret A. Kennedy, RN, BScN, MN, PhD, CPHIMS-CA, PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner Global Village Consulting Inc Merigomish Nova Scotia Canada

Marion J. Ball, EdD, FACMI, AMIA IBM Research Center for Healthcare Management Baltimore , MD USA

The authors of this book share many passions and values. The strongest of these is the incomparable value of family and friends. We dedicate this new edition to our family, friends, and wonderful colleagues for their generosity of support and inspiration.

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Series Preface

The Health Informatics Series is directed to healthcare professionals who are lead- ing the transformation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in 1988 as “Computers in Health Care”, to offer a broad range of titles: some addressed to specifi c professions such as nursing, medicine, and health administra- tion; others to special areas of practice such as trauma and radiology; still other books in the series focused on interdisciplinary issues, such as the computer based patient record, electronic health records, and networked healthcare systems.

Renamed “Health Informatics” in 1998 to reflect the rapid evolution in the discipline known as health informatics, the series continues to add titles that contribute to the evolution of the field. In the series, eminent experts, serving as editors or authors, offer their accounts of innovations in health informatics. Increasingly, these accounts go beyond hardware and software to address the role of information in influencing the transformation of healthcare delivery systems around the world. The series also increasingly focuses on the users of the information and systems: the organizational, behavioral, and societal changes that accompany the diffusion of information technology in health services environments.

Developments in healthcare delivery are constant; most recently developments in proteomics and genomics are increasingly becoming relevant to clinical decision making and emerging standards of care. The data resources emerging from molecular biology are beyond the capacity of the human brain to integrate and beyond the scope of paper-based decision trees. Thus, bioinformatics has emerged as a new field in health informatics to support emerging and ongoing developments in molecular biology. Translational informatics supports acceleration, from bench to bed- side, i.e. the appropriate use of molecular biology research findings and bioinformatics in clinical care of patients.

At the same time, further continual evolution of the field of health informatics is reflected in the introduction of concepts at the macro or health systems delivery level with major national initiatives in many countries related to concepts such as electronic health records (EHRs) and personal health records; public health informatics; and data analytics, eHealth and digital health with the associated data, terminology and messaging standards essential to clinical interoperability.

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We have consciously retained the series title Health Informatics as the single umbrella term that encompasses both the microscopic elements of bioinformatics and the macroscopic aspects of large national health information systems. Ongoing changes to both the micro and macro perspectives on health informatics will continue to shape health services in the twenty-first century. By making full and cre- ative use of the technology to tame data and to transform information, Health Informatics will foster the development and use of new knowledge in health care. As coeditors, we pledge to support our professional colleagues and the series readers as they share advances in the emerging and exciting field of health informatics.

Victoria, BC, Canada Kathryn J. Hannah, PhD, RN Dublin, Ireland Pamela Hussey , RN, RCN, MEd, MSc, PhD Halifax, NS, Canada Margaret Ann Kennedy , RN, BScN, MN, PhD,

CPHIMS-CA, PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner Baltimore, MD, USA Marion J. Ball , EdD, FACMI, AMIA

Series Preface

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The publication of this 4th edition of An Introduction to Nursing Informatics is timely. Its core purpose is to act as primer for nurses searching for basic information on the topic of nursing informatics. Interest in health informatics and its relevance to eHealth is expanding at a dynamic pace. The commitment of funding by the World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), European Union (EU) and United States (USA) indicates that the integration of informatics competencies and its associated role in eHealth service delivery is a key priority. As a profession, nursing is accountable for a significant contribution to health care service provision. Contemporary nursing practice is changing and, at the same time, facing a number of critical challenges.

For example, two global issues that the profession is striving to address include high staff turnover and nursing skill mix shortages. Articulating the nursing contribution to holistic care is therefore as important now as ever. Nursing informatics continues to be an essential aspect not only in providing information about the profession but also in helping nurse leaders in their quest for the expansion of nursing knowledge and theory development.

Twenty-first-century medicine offers exciting opportunities for the nursing profession to engage with and develop within. An example includes the opportunity to contribute to the design of emerging eHealth models of care. Additionally, concepts relating to health ecosystems which can be used to transform and enhance health and social care in society are seeking nurses’ expertise and imagination.

There is a need to ensure that resources such as electronic health records and mobile technology (mTechnology) applications are pragmatic and fi t for purpose. Nurses, often described as context experts, understand the fl ow of health care processes and are key agents in requirements identifi cation and evaluation of systems under development.

In this edition, the editors have collected the best available evidence to inspire and support nurses to think critically about both current and future practice. This book is presented in such a manner as to encourage the reader to pause and reflect upon key concepts presented from the perspective of their existing practice domain. Starting with the fundamental concepts of nursing practice, information management and its relationship to informatics, this edition includes a number of

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