This significantly revised 5th edition provides nurses with a practical guide to the fundamental concepts of digital health from a nursing perspective. Nursing informatics has never been more important as contemporary healthcare continues to experience tremendous technological advances. The nursing profession is ideally positioned as a key enabler for the design and adoption of emerging eHealth models of care and quality outcomes. The book also features real world examples to illustrate the theory and encourages readers to think critically about their current practices and how they can potentially integrate relevant theories and techniques into their future practice to advance integrated care.Introduction to Nursing Informatics is designed for use as a primer for practicing nurses and students in undergraduate programs of study and includes contributions from leading international experts who have practiced in the field over a number of years. The information ispresented and integrated in a purposeful manner to encourage readers to explore the key concepts of nursing practice, digital health, health information management and its relationship to informatics.

Provides basic information on how to select and use information systems and information management in all aspects of nursing practice

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. eHealth a Global Priority.- Chapter 3. Nursing and Informatics.- Chapter 4. The Mechanics of Technology and Digital.- Chapter 5. Health Information Exchange: the overarching role of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE).- Chapter 6. Health Informatics Standards.- Chapter 7. Nursing Documentation in Digital solutions.- Chapter 8. Connected Health and the Digital Patient.- Chapter 9. Administrative Applications.- Chapter 10. Data Privacy and Security.- Chapter 11. Role of the Informatics Nurse.- Chapter 12. Researching Nursing Informatics in a Digital Age.- Chapter 13. Applied Informatics Research in Nursing for eHealth.- Chapter 14. Knowledge and Social Networks.- Chapter 15. Technology enabled Learning in Nursing.- Chapter 16. The future of nursing informatics in a digitally-enabled world.