Health informatics, Health care informatics or medical informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics tools include not only computers but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems. It is applied to the areas of nursing, clinical care, dentistry, pharmacy, public health and (bio)medical research. The role of the nurse in the use of technology to improve the delivery of patient care has evolved.
According to Graves and Corcoran(1989) "A combination of computer science, information science, and nursing science designed to assist in the managements and processing of nursing data, information, and knowledge to support the practice of nursing and the delivery of nursing care."
On the insight of Saba and McCormick (2001): "nursing informatics is a dynamic discipline, compirised of many aspects and defined in many ways. Definitions reflect the definer's perspectives and the emergence of new knowledge in nursing informatics and the sciences with which it is integrated."
Nursing Informatics is not new, but it certainly is NOW! Technology is dramatically altering the ways in which we diagnose, treat, care for and manage patients. It is our past and it is our present. The Mission is to support evidence-based nursing practice and improved patient outcomes with technology solutions that enhance nursing communication, documentation and efficiency. It pursue the mission endlessly and passionately!
It helps the nurses not only in medical field but also learning and documenting data through the use of technology which is the computer.
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