Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World, Book 1

In just the past decade, the emergence of digital health has finally become palpable. Enhanced by the pandemic, social justice events, and planetary health urgency, Realizing Digital Health - Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing explores that evolution with a focus on capturing the current state of digital health. Anchored in an introduction to digital health, new technologies, opportunities, and challenges are described. Consideration of the opportunities and challenges of digital health calls for specific attention to ethical considerations. This book includes a current state synopsis of healthcare in the USA, with the inclusion of specific implications for nursing leaders and executives. Engagement of the people (patients, families, communities) working in partnership to enhance health is described. Information management and the necessary definition and access to data are discussed with a particular explication of the function of information management and operational decision-making. The challenges and learnings related to informatics drawn from the experiences of leaders in large health systems shed insight into the current state of informatics-enabled digital health and healthcare. The global example of the integration of technology, nursing, and health systems expands our knowledge of the current state as well as explores possibilities. This book concludes with a commitment to and description of the current state of teamwork and the integral role/functions within informatics, nursing, and healthcare. This book provides the reader with a succinct overview of digital technologies, a reality-anchored description of the current state in the USA and globally and highlights the core foundation and integration of informatics and information management. This book stimulates thought and actions to advance digital health within a full partnership among the people, organizations, systems, and global imperatives including planetary survival. This book lifts up the next era calling for full teamwork, collaboration, and partnership as we emerge into a true global community. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition is comprised of four books which can be purchased individually: Book 1: Realizing Digital Health - Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies Book 3: Innovation, Technology, and Applied Informatics for Nurses Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, and the Planet

Connie White Delaney, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP serves as Professor and Dean at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and is the Knowledge Generation Lead for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. Charlotte A. Weaver, PhD, MSPH, RN, FHIMSS, FAAN is a visionary senior executive, now retired after 40+ years of experience in nursing informatics, patient safety and quality, evidence-based nursing practices and healthcare automation in acute, ambulatory, and post-acute care. Joyce Sensmeier, MS, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN is the Senior Advisor, Informatics for HIMSS, a non-profit organization focused on reforming the global health ecosystem through the power of information and technology. Lisiane Pruinelli, PhD, MS, RN, FAMIA is an Assistant Professor University of Minnesota School of Nursing and Affiliate Faculty at the Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota. Patrick Weber, MA, RN, FIAHSI, FGBHI is the Managing Director and Principal of Nice Computing in Lausanne, Switzerland and has been an active leader in the European health informatics field for over 30 years, serving as his country's representative to IMIA-Nursing for over a decade and has held numerous Board level positions in IMIA-Nursing as well.

Chapter 1: Digital Health Ecosystems: A Strategy for Transformation of Health Systems in the Post Pandemic Future Chapter 2: Digital Health and New Technologies Chapter 3: Opportunities and Challenges for Digital Health Advancement Chapter 4: Ethical Considerations in Digital Health Chapter 5: U.S. Health and Healthcare Current State - Nurse Executives Chapter 6: Engage the people - health informatics and personal health management Chapter 7: Information Management in Nursing Leaders' Operational Decision-Making Chapter 8: Informatics in Large Health Systems: Organization, Transformation and Nursing Informatics Leadership Perspectives Chapter 9: Nursing Informatics within Health Systems - Global Comparison Chapter 10: South Africa's Healthcare Systems, Technology and Nursing Chapter 11: Teamwork and Informatics: Capturing the work of nurses as team members

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