Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

• Informatics History and Definitions
• Informatics Theory and Concepts
• Computer Literacy vs. Information Literacy
• Informatics Competencies for the BSN
• Bibliography

Nurs460 – Health Informatics for Registered Nurses

Module 1: Informatics- History, Theory, Concepts and Competencies

Informatics History and Definitions

Learning Activity

How is technology changing the healthcare sector?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM4aep7VXb8

Click here to view video lecture on Informatics History, Theory, Concepts and Competencies presented by Dr. Charlotte Seckman, UMSON, Nursing Informatics Program

Click here to download PowerPoint slides for video lecture

What is Health Informatics? View video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFxewUq1cE4

Definitions

• Clinical Informatics: “A broad term that encompasses all medical and health specialties, including nursing, and addresses the ways information systems are used in the day-to-day operations of patient care” (Alexander et. al, 2014)
• Computer Science: “The study of algorithmic methods for representing and transforming information, including their theory, design, implementation, application and efficiency” (Nelson & Staggers, 2014).
• Health Informatics: “An interdisciplinary specialty and scientific discipline focused on integrating the health sciences, computer science, and informaion science to discover, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom supporting the provision of healthcare for individuals, families and communities” (Nelson & Staggers, 2014).
• Informatics: “The study of the use of information processes and technology in the arts, sciences, and the professions” (Nelson & Staggers, 2014).
• Informatics Nurse: A nurse with advanced preparation in information management. (Hebda & Czar, 2014)
• Information Management: “The process of collecting data, processing, and presenting and communicating the data as information or knowledge” (Alexander et. al, 2014)
• Information Systems: “Computer system that uses hardware and software to process data into information in order to solve a problem” (Hebda & Czar, 2013).
• Information Science: “The discipline that investigates the properties and the means of processing information for optimum accessibility and usability” (Nelson & Staggers, 2014).
• Information Technology: “General term that refers to the management and processing of information with the assistance of computers” (Hebda & Czar, 2013).
• Nursing Informatics: “A specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice, education, research and administration.” (Nelson & Staggers, 2014; ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Informatics Practice)