NURSING ANM AND GNM

NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS

NURSING INFORMATICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The terms health informatics and NI were first introduced in Korea when the KOSMI was founded in ____ what year?
A
1897
B
1987
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The terms health informatics and NI were first introduced in Korea when the KOSMI was founded in 1987. In contrast, computers were not used in nursing education and research until 1993, and NI was not taught in universities until 1994.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gustov Wagner, a pioneer on the path to electronic medical records, formed the first professional organization for informatics, the German Society for Medical Documentation, Computer Science, and Statistics, in 1949. His work was the basis for the electronic health documentation that we now see so widely used.

Detailed explanation-3: -Japan hosted the IMIA conference MEDINFO80 in 1980. The Japanese Association of Medical Informatics(JAMI) was founded at that time with the aim of supporting health informatics in Japan.

Detailed explanation-4: -Florence Nightingale is often referred to as one of the first INSs because she sought better patient data to guide her work.

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