Highlight the contributions this individual made to the field of informatics, and explain how these contributions impact the field of informatics today.

In this Discussion, you focus on those who set the stage for the field of informatics today. By Day 1, your Instructor will assign you one of the pioneers in the field of informatics to research.

To prepare:

• Read the articles listed in the Learning Resources for your assigned informatics pioneer.
• Conduct research in the Walden Library or on the Internet to find additional works by or information about the individual.
• Determine his or her area of interest and affiliations in the medical world.
• Reflect on the contributions he or she made to the field of informatics. What most interests you? What most surprises you?
• Consider how these contributions impact the field of informatics today.
• Assess why it is important to be familiar with the foundational documents of nursing informatics.

By tomorrow 11/30/2016 12pm

Post a minimum of 550 words essay in APA format with a minimum of 3 scholarly references (See list provided below), which addresses the level one headings below:

1)      An overview of the individual to whom you were assigned, including his or her principal areas of interest and medical affiliations.

2)      Highlight the contributions this individual made to the field of informatics, and explain how these contributions impact the field of informatics today.

3)      Comment on the importance of being familiar with the foundational documents of nursing informatics.

 

 

 

Required Readings

 

Kaplan, B., Brennan, P., Dowling, A., Friedman, C., & Peel, V. (2001). Towards an informatics research agenda: Key people and organizational issues. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 8(3), 235–241.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

This article highlights key areas in the field of health informatics in which additional research needs to be conducted. The authors cite organizational and social trends, and they suggest questions that need to be addressed in these areas.

 

 

Pioneers in Informatics

Harriet Werley

 

Werley, H. H., Devine, E. C., & Zorn, C. R. (1988). Nursing needs its own minimum data set. The American Journal of Nursing, 88(12), 1651–1653.

Copyright 1988 by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Inc. via the Copyright Clearance Center.

In this article, Werley, Devine, and Zorn describe their development of the nursing minimum data set (NMDS). They also discuss how the NMDS was used and why it was important.

 

Werley, H. H., Devine, E. C., Zorn, C. R., Ryan, P., & Westra, B. L. (1991). The nursing minimum data set: Abstraction tool for standardized, comparable, essential data. American Journal of Public Health, 81(4), 421–426.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

In this article from 1991, the authors explain their usage of the nursing minimum data set to standardize collections of nursing data. The authors explore the importance of standardizing nursing data, as well as these data’s availability, reliability, and benefits at that time.