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Development of Nursing Informatics in Australia

Australia has had a representative to IMIAs Working Group 8 (WG8) since 1984.

Nurses were the second group of health professionals to organize themselves to promote healthinformatics n Australia. The general practitioners were first, beginning in the late 1970s,

although Health Information Manager Association (HIM AA) has been existence since 1949, but

the integration of informatics is more recent . NI is now a Sig of HISA, which came existence in

1993. It has been long and torturous path to reach the position.

Over the last decade the health care environment has seen a transformation of work

practices and an explosion in the use of information and communication technologies.NIA aims

to enable the priorities for nursing informatics in Australia such as appropriate language,

education and ongoing research to become a reality. It will engender nursing to embrace

information and communication technologies, and establish strong foundations for taking thesedevelopments forward. It will also ensure nursing has the data and resources to continue to

provide evidence-based, quality, cost-effective and outcome-driven care for patients and clients

into the future

Historical Mile Stone

NI in Australia began with the Royal Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) in 1984. A

year later a small group of midwives in Victoria, including Joan Edgecombe, who s the executive

officer of the HISSA decided to call a general meeting of nurses interested of computer use.

About 70 nurses agreed to establish the Nursing Computer Group Victoria (NCGV). This group

continued to flourish and hosted the Fourth International Symposium on Nursing Use of

Computers and Information Science Melbourne in 1991. The profit of this conference enabled

the formation of the HISA . IMIA-NI's past achievements are reflected upon in the context of its

current strategic directions. Two key historical milestones are described in some detail, the ISO

Reference terminology model for nursing and the International Nursing Minimum Data Set

development project, as this work is continuing to influence future directions in health andnursing informatics. Current features of our health care environment are explored noting the

current desire of most nations to implement electronic health records (EHRs) and its relationship

with IMIA-NI's strategic directions. Nurses can play their part by working collaboratively,

converting their knowledge into computer processable formats, establishing the necessary

professional knowledge governance infrastructure and lobbying key decision makers to establish

national infrastructures that will enable the adoption and optimum use of EHRs


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Trends of Australian Informatics

IMIA-NI Australia 2010

1. Explore the scope of Nursing Informatics and its implication for health policy and information

handlingactivities associated with evidence based nursing practice, nursing management, nursing

research, nursing education, standards and patient (or client) decision making and the variousrelationships with other health care informatics entities.

Currently revising A framework for Nursing Informatics in Australia A strategic paper which includes the scope of nursing informatics and it implication for health

policy and information handling across the domains of evidence based practice, nursingmanagement, research, education, and standards.

Nursing Informatics Australia has been represented in a range of e-health / health

informatics initiatives in Australia including:

National e-health Transition Authority ( NeHTA) Clinical Terminologies and ClinicalLead projects

Coalition for E- Health cross disciplinary e- ehealth advocacy group

Developing the eNursing Clinical Framework and Maturity Framework. The eNursing

ClinicalFramework identifies all the areas of opportunity where informatics impact andcan improve nursing practice across all aspects of nursing. The Maturity framework is to

designed to assess the level of maturity in understanding and implementing nursinginformatics concepts.

2. Identify priorities or gaps and make recommendations for future developments in Nursing

Informatics.

Completed a joint project with Australian Nursing Federation on Nursing InformaticsCompetencies

3. Support the development of Nursing Informatics in member countries and promote Nursing

Informatics worldwide.

Supporting the development of nursing informatics in Qatar as part of the developmentof a health informatics group in Qatar

Contact with United Arab Emeriates Nursing representatives regarding developing

regional nursinginformatics group


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4. Promote linkages and collaborative activities with national and international nursing andhealthcare

informatics groups and nursing and health care organisations globally.

Nursing Informatics Australia is represented at Council of National Nursing

Organisations to supportcollaborative efforts across nursing and to promote nursing informatics

Collaboration partner with Australia Practice Nurses to develop skills and knowledge inthe use of

Web 2.0 technologies as part of the Practice Nurse Collaborative Policy and ProceduresProject.

5. Provide, promote and support informatics meetings, conferences, electronic communication

forums toenable opportunities for the sharing of ideas, developments and knowledge.

The following conferences were conducted by NIA to support knowledge sharing andcollaboration

regarding nursing informatics initiatives:

Successful Nursing Informatics Australia conference held in August 2009

Nursing Informatics Australia 2010 conference to be held in August 2010 E Health Marrying

Governance with Nursing Practice

6. To participate in IMIA working group and special interest groups to present a nursingperspective.

Nursing Informatics Australia representatives currently participating in IMIA NIworking group for

Education and Evidence Based Practice

Nursing Informatics Australia is an active participant in IT -014 Health Informatics (Standards

Australia) Group

Participating in the Australian Health Informatics Education Council to support thedevelopment of

health informatics concepts, discipline and increasing health professional healthinformatics

competencies

7. Develop recommendations, guidelines, tools and courses related to Nursing Informatics. As per above completed joint project on Nursing Informatics Competencies


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8. Encourage the publication and dissemination of research and development materials in thefield of

Nursing Informatics Joint publication with Australian Nursing Federation for Nursing Informatics

Competencies

9. To support and work with patients, families, communities and societies to adopt and manageinformatics

approaches to healthcare. This will be addressed as part of the update of the Framework for Nursing Informatics

10. Ensure the group is more visible by providing up to date information on the web site enabling

externalgroups e.g. WHO, ICN to access as required.

Nursing Informatics Australia website provides up to date information on nursinginformatics in

Australia. Further web site developments in planning phase.

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