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. 

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.