Nursing informatics. Need to know: essential survival skills for the information age.
Twenty-five years ago, health care information technology was dramatically different from what it is today. Twenty-five years from now, it promises to be worlds away from what it is today. How good a job has nursing done at keeping up with this exponential change? This article addresses the evolutio...
| Published in: | Nursing Administration Quarterly Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 142 - 146 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Fall2000
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | Twenty-five years ago, health care information technology was dramatically different from what it is today. Twenty-five years from now, it promises to be worlds away from what it is today. How good a job has nursing done at keeping up with this exponential change? This article addresses the evolution of technology in health care and nursing's track record of technology expertise. It also discusses the price nursing will pay if it does not keep up with technology and the benefits it can gain if it does. Copyright © 2000 by Aspen Publishers, Inc. |
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