Nursing Informatics

Informatics comes from the French word “Informatique” which means “computer science”

– the use of computer technology to support nursing, including clinical practice, administration, education and research. (Helda, 1998)

Florence Nightingale

-recognized as an early informatics nurse because of her use of data to inform knowledge and change nursing practice

History

1863 – she was very clear in her desire to collect, retrieve and analyze data to be able to recognize trends in illness and treatments to improve the quality of care

1950s and 1060s- many significant changes were underwent for the healthcare and for the nursing profession in developing countries

1970s – the nursing staff became instrumental in development of nursing applications for hospital information systems

1970s and 1980s – nursing informatics was broadly defined as the use of computer technology to support all aspects of nursing practices, and it as frequently confused with computer literacy skills of the nurse.

1990s and beyond the interest became the tool for web based clinical applications for healthcare professional

In 1996 – it truly introduces a model that illustrate the interaction of the sciences that contribute to nursing informatics, computer science, language processing and visual attention.

The major milestones in nursing informatics history in the Philippines which includes the participation of the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) in the development of Standards for Health Information in the Philippines (SHIP) in 1999, the formation of the Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI) which began in 2005 and the formation of the Philippine Nursing Informatics Association (PNIA) in 2010 as a sub-specialty organization of PNA for nursing informatics.

“Nursing informatics” were unfamiliar among the nursing community until the year 2008.P hilippine Medical Informatics Society (PMIS)