INFORMATICS (midterms)
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COMPUTER / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY |
synonymous to NIS, NCA, and NI to manage information in patient care, monitor quality of nursing care and evaluate care outcomes.
NURSING INFORMATICS
integration of nursing, information and management with information processing and information technology to support health worldwide (IMIA, 1998)
computers
first developed in late 1930s-early 1940s, used in healthcare industry in the 1950s; only few experts who attempted to adapt computers to health care
early computers used punch cards (1960s)
to store data and card readers to read computer programs, sort, and prepare data for processing; linked together and operated by paper tape
teletypewriters (1960s)
to print their output
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