NSE 407 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Health Informatics, Code, Systematized Nomenclature Of Medicine

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Nursing informatics: a growing field of science and practice (pp. Nursing informatics: design, use and study of information and communication technologies (icts) to support nursing practice. Nursing informatics/icts are also known as; ehealth, digital health, biomedical informatics, health informatics. Informatics: use of information in a technologically enabled environment; applied through computers and health information systems (hiss) Health informatics, ehealth, & biomedical informatics: collaboration across the field of information science, computer science, management and organizational science, cognitive science and design science. Digital health: same as above and includes the use of genetic information and mobile devices for healthcare activities. Bioinformatics: use of ict in genomics/genetics. Goal of informatics according to canada"s health informatics association (coach): to help canadians achieve better health. His allows for health information to be entered only once with the ability to be retrieved at any later time.

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