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Applied Informatics Research in Nursing for eHealth

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In this chapter, the previous research priorities and defined topics are used to determine the present state of the art of applied nursing informatics. The aim is to describe how recent publications support previous nursing informatics research agendas. The Scopus database was searched to find studies focusing on Nursing Informatics and eHealth in the context of applied clinical informatics. The search yielded publications from the last decade (from 2010 until February 2020). The search results (N = 55) were analyzed and classified using the research topic areas (N = 20) defined by The Nursing Informatics International Research Network (NIIRN). The results revealed that the three highest number of publications of the search focused on “the development of decision support systems specific to nursing practice decisions,” “the evaluation of the impact of HIT systems for nursing care on outcomes for patients”, and the “evaluation of the impact of standardized nursing documentation content/meaning on the utility of information for feedback and quality improvement.” One paper focused on “the development of electronic information systems providing real-time feedback to nurses about their practices/health care delivery to improve safety,” which was previously assessed as the most important. Seven defined research areas had no publications. Future research should focus on the missing research priorities, such as the evaluation of quality, the use of telecommunications and social media, the design and management of databases, theory development, and the integration of genomic data. The present nursing informatics research agenda should be updated based on changes in practice and technological advancements. The results should be interpreted with caution, as the analysis purposefully focused on one journal specializing in applied clinical informatics. However, they indicate what we should focus on in applied nursing informatics and eHealth research in the future.

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    Kaija Saranto & Ulla-Mari Kinnunen

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Saranto, K., Kinnunen, UM. (2021). Applied Informatics Research in Nursing for eHealth. In: Hussey, P., Kennedy, M.A. (eds) Introduction to Nursing Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58740-6_13

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