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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be
distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed
according to medical need."
— JAMA (2003), 290, 798
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Rethinking nursing informatics
August 31, 2022 --
I've been doing informatics for decades -- four decades, to be exact --
focusing on the sub-specialty of nursing informatics (NI) for the last of those decades.
You'd think it would be a mature technology... And you'd be right.
But much of the world hasn't figured this out yet.
Each quarter, my BANIA group delivers an educational event to address the question,
what is nursing informatics? You wouldn't need to do that for, say, car mechanics.
Everyone knows what that is. It's a mature technology.
So why, if my contention is correct, must we do so for nursing informatics?