Nursing Informatics (History)

• Nursing informatics integrates nursing science, computer science and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.
• Nursing informatics supports consumers, patients, nurses and other providers in their decision making in all roles and settings.
• The support of nursing informatics is accomplished through the use of information structures, information process and information technology.
• Nursing informatics promotes the new generation.
• Nursing informatics provides quick access to health information.
• Informatics is a French word that refers to computer science and information science.
• Informatics is defined as computer science and information science used in conjunction with the name of discipline to denote an application of a computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.
• Medical informatics is the use of information technology to manage and analyze medical data.
• Nursing informatics is the use of information technology to support nursing processes, documentation, and patient care.
• Pharmacy informatics is the use of information technology in pharmacy practice, including medication management, dispensing, and medication-related decision support.
• Nursing informatics was not seen in the literature until 1984.
• Nursing informatics established itself as a specialty in the nursing field.
• Machinery such as ventilators and physiological monitors were first used in intensive and critical care settings.
• Jeanne Mance founded the first hospital in Montreal Canada in 1642.
• Florence Nightingale used an abacus in her time.
• In the 1950s, the use of computer in healthcare was mostly for financial transactions.
• The first conference on nursing and computers was held in 1970.
• Informatics papers specific to nursing began to appear on a national level in 1974.
• Medical informatics and nursing informatics specialty emerged in 1980.
• The first graduate program in nursing informatics was established at university of Maryland in 1988.
• Nursing informatics was first recognized as a specialty for RN’s by ANA in 1992.
• The first certification exam for NI was held in 1995.
• In 1996, Philippine medical informatics society (PMIS) was established which made a very strong influence in the development of health informatics in the Philippines.
• In 1998, faculty members university of Philippines began formal education and training in medical informatics and information science.
• Standards For Health Information in The Philippines 1999 (SHIP99) was established by national institute of health of the University of the Philippines Manila with the collaboration of PNA in 1999.
• In 2005-2006, health informatics was offered by UP manila college of medicine (major in medical informatics) and college of arts and science (major in bioinformatics).
• In 2008, Commission on Higher Education Memorandum 5 series of 2008 defined nursing informatics course in the undergraduate curriculum.
• This was later revised and included as health informatics course in CHED in 2009.
• Nursing informatics integrates nursing science, computer science and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.
• Nursing informatics supports consumers, patients, nurses and other providers in their decision making in all roles and settings.
• The support of nursing informatics is accomplished through the use of information structures, information process and information technology.
• Nursing informatics promotes the new generation and provides quick access to health information.
• Informatics is a French word that refers to computer science.
• After the fifth generation computer, the technology of computer has become more advanced, modern and sophisticated.
• The latest invention in the era of computers are: Super computers, Mainframe computers, Mini computers, personal computers, and mobile computers.
• The goal of fifth-generation computing is to develop devices that respond to natural language input and are capable of learning and self-organization.
• Quantum computation and molecular and nanotechnology will radically change the face of computers in years to come.
• Limitations of using computers include: they can be very slow, they might not find the exact information you need, or they might give you something you don’t need.
• In the new era of computers, experts systems such as teleconferencing and speech-recognition system have been invented as part of modern world communication tools.
• Advantages of using computers include: it makes it easier to find information and faster to find it, it is more efficient than they used to be, and it makes it easier to talk to friends on social web sites.