Typically, the discharged patient is instructed to arrange follow-up care; thus, providers in
primary care are often unaware the patient has been hospitalized or has visited the …

Objectives In this paper we present a contemporary understanding of" nursing informatics"
and relate it to applications in three specific contexts, hospitals, community health, and home …

I NA MUCH-PUBLICIZED report released in March 2001, the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academies (IOM) went on record and stated,“information technology must play a …

Since the passage of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and Health
Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH), the use of technology in …

Nursing Informatics; Truths, Talent, and Transforming the Future Page 1 DOI: 10.4324/9781003202882-8
89 Chapter 6 Advancing Your Growth in Healthcare Information Technology Brian T …

Collaborative practice and the patient-focused care model Patient-focused care is basically
a method of delivering care that organizes diag-nostic activities and care protocols around …

This article discusses findings from qualitative research conducted with nurses in a hospital
Emergency Department. It explores nurses' attitudes towards a patient care information …

Since we have entered the new millennium, the emphasis on health informatics has been
increasingly growing. The focus of development, which was initially on hardware, has …

Nurses are experiencing patient care situations in the home setting that, until recently, would
only have occurred in an acute care setting. While new medical skills and technologies have …

THE ROLE OF THE INFORMATICS nurse stretches far beyond the hospital setting. Although
most research and industry attention surrounding the adoption and optimization of electronic …