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
Table of Contents:
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
