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2005
Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) is established. They are responsible for designating standards that will be used in the structure and transmission of healthcare information, standards that will affect how nursing and others document care, including the nursing and other healthcare terminologies that will be acceptable
1950s
1997
Computers were used in the health care for automation of the financial and accounting functions.
The Nightingale Tracker, a portable communication system utilizing a PDA that will allow nurses or students in the field to be in touch with instructors in an office, under development since 1994 goes into Beta Testing.
1992
1958
ANA establishes nursing informatics as a nursing specialty (Milholland,1997).
The integrated circuit (IC) is developed by Jack Kilby. The IC is the foundation of all microchip technology (Texas Instruments, 1997).
1986
1960
ANA House of Delegates adopts a resolution identifying the need for nurses to use information systems to collect essential data for clinical practice, management of nursing care and nursing resources, education, administration, and research (Milholland, 1997).
Some health care institutions begin to include patient care applications in their computer systems (Saba, Johnson, & Simpson, 1994).
1972
1964
The Uniform Hospital Discharge Set is adopted. (UHDS)
The US Congress amended the Social Security Act to include Medicare and Medicaid.
1970s
1965
Development of the PRoblem Oriented Medical Information System (PROMIS*) was begun by Dr. Lawrence Weed at the University Medical Center in Burlington, VT (McNeill, 1979).
The importance of this system lies in the fact that it was the first attempt to provide a total, integrated system that included all aspects of health care including patient treatment.
1969
Work begins on Systematized Nomenclature of Pathology (SNOP) by the American College of Pathology to systematize the language of pathology. Will eventually become Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)
An ambulatory care system, Computer Stored Ambulatory Record (COSTAR) system is developed at Massachusetts General Hospital for the prepaid Harvard Community Health Plan.
Patient care data was computerized to meet providers' medical, financial, and administrative needs (Saba & McCormick, 1986).
Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of applied statistics to develop policy and developed novel ways of displaying them.
"Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice."
"This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology. "
(Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition, ANA 2015)
Nashija Carnell Wansi