Introduction to Nursing Informatics

Dr. Pamela Hussey is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for eIntegrated Care at Dublin City University. Her current research activity relates to testing, deployment and reporting on health informatics standards.  She acts as an advisor to different agencies on topics relating to semantic and syntactic interoperability on integrated care. Dr. Hussey's teaching interests include; health informatics, concepts and terminology, as well as the creation and use of technology enhanced learning in undergraduate and post graduate education. Dr. Margaret Ann Kennedy is Chief Nursing Informatics Officer based in Gevity’s Center of Excellence. She holds a PhD in Nursing from the University of South Australia, a Master of Nursing from Dalhousie University (Canada), a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from St. Francis Xavier University (Canada), and a Post Graduate Certificate in Standards for Health Informatics from the University of Sherbrooke (Canada).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. eHealth a Global Priority.- Chapter 3. Nursing and Informatics.- Chapter 4. The Mechanics of Technology and Digital.- Chapter 5. Health Information Exchange: the overarching role of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE).- Chapter 6. Health Informatics Standards.- Chapter 7. Nursing Documentation in Digital solutions.- Chapter 8. Connected Health and the Digital Patient.- Chapter 9. Administrative Applications.- Chapter 10. Data Privacy and Security.- Chapter 11. Role of the Informatics Nurse.- Chapter 12. Researching Nursing Informatics in a Digital Age.- Chapter 13. Applied Informatics Research in Nursing for eHealth.- Chapter 14. Knowledge and Social Networks.- Chapter 15. Technology enabled Learning in Nursing.- Chapter 16. The future of nursing informatics in a digitally-enabled world.