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Nursing Informatics

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The adoption and use of information technology (IT) in health care is influenced by many factors and depends on legal and cultural constraints prevailing in a country. While Europe is constantly coalescing on a political basis, health care is a sector still dominated by national legislation. Consequently, different types of national health care systems have existed throughout Europe for decades which now build the framework for the use of information and communication technology (ICT) by health care provider organizations. The following paragraphs will, therefore, provide a concise overview of the different types of national health care systems in Europe and will characterize the countries with regard to key indicators.

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Appendices

Appendix A: Some Nursing Informatics Workings Groups in European Countries

Croatia

Croatian Nursing Informatics Association

Europe

European Federation for Medical Informatics WG Nursing Informatics

http://www.nicecomputing.ch/nieurope/

Germany

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS)

AG Informationsverarbeitung in der Pflege

http://www.nursing-informatics.de

Ireland

Healthcare Informatics Society Ireland (HISI) nursing

http://www.hisi.ie/html/nursing.htm

Spain

Sociedad Espanola de Enfermeria Informatica e Internet

http://www.seei.es/

Switzerland

Schweizerische IG Pflegeinformatik (IGPI)

CIG Informatique dans les soins infirmiers (GICI)

http://www.swissnurse.ch

UK

British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10013

Appendix B: Major European Conferences in the Nursing Informatics Domain

Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference

Annual medical and health informatics conference of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) with track/sessions or presentations in nursing informatics

www.efmi.org

Association for Common European Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes (ACENDIO) conference

Annual conference of ACENDIO with focus on nursing terminologies for diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes

www.acendio.net/

European Nursing Informatics (ENI) conference

Annual conference on nursing informatics hold in German speaking countries, i.e., Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with keynote speakers from other European countries. Organized in cooperation with the scientific journal “Pflegewissenschaft”

www.printernet.info

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