Nursing Informatics: Where Caring and Technology Meet (Health Informatics)

Since its first publication in 1988, this guide has established itself as the premier reference text in the field for all health care professionals seeking an up-to-date review of the role of information technology in the nursing profession. The second edition of this seminal work goes on to address the growth and evolution of the nursing informatics discipline as well as the impact of the rapid and far-reaching changes in IT and in health care. In addition to a new section on integration, this edition includes all-new chapters on subjects such as: the national health information infrastructure; reengineering health care and business processes; electronic resources for nursing; usability concepts and the clinical workstation; ubiquitous computing and the nurse; information management and long-term care; the information needs of nurse-managed centres; critical path/care map and case management needs; large databases and their implications for planning and health policy; virtual reality; and defining the informatics nurse specialist.

Marion J. Ball, Ed.D., is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, A vice president of the First Consulting Group, and a member of the Institute of Medicine. Co-editor of Springer-Verlag's Health Informatics Series, she is actively involved in a wide range of health informatic applications in the public and private sectors.

Kathryn J, Hannah, R.N., Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, and vice president and chief health informatician at Sierra Systems Consultants, Inc. She chairs the board of directors of HEALNet (Health Evidence Application and Linkage Network) and is coeditor of Springer-Verlag's Health Informatics series.

Susan K. Newbold, M.S., R.N., is a doctoral candidate with an emphasis on nursing informatics and an instructor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is founder and cochair of the Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in NursinG (CARING) and associate editor of Computer in Nursing.

Judith V. Douglas, M.A., M.H.S., is a manager at the First Consulting Group, and a lecturer at the John Hopkins University School of Nursing. A columnist for MD Computing, and a member of several editorial boards, she is a published writer and editor in the areas of nursing and healthcare informatics.