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This website was created for educational purposes for the NURS 602: Transforming Health Care Through Informatics course.

The information on this website is intended for:

This website aims to:

Define nursing informatics
Provide a history of nursing informatics
Provide an understanding of the present and future roles of nurse informatics specialists
Promote reflection on the current state of nursing informatics and the roles of nurse informatics specialists in healthcare

"Informatics nurse specialists are

uniquely qualified to bridge the gap

between the

clinical world and the information technology world...

Nurses can be the

conduit for improved healthcare

via informatics"

(Eriksen, 2009, p. 34)

Transforming Healthcare: