Asia

 A career that focuses on finding ways to improve information management and communications in nursing  To improve efficiency, reduce costs and enhance the quality of patient care.

 The American Nurses Association defines nursing informatics as a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information and knowledge in nursing practice.

 Basic Computer literacy education in most Asian countries and graduate programs major in Nursing Informatics in countries such as Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China and Thailand.

 Health informatics in South Korean has grown considerably in recent years with the professional outreach activities of the Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI)  Health informatics in South Korea, most Nursing Schools – are adding informatics to graduate curricula so that graduate students can take informatics as an elective course.

 Standardization Activities in Korea is the primary motivation for which is compatibility of data, clinical documentation and research outcomes across the country.

 Nursing informatics is now used for tele- consultation, tele – continuing Medical Education (CME) for health professionals, mass customized personalized information and education and lifetime health plan.

 Nursing Informatics is now used in Personal Health Records to give public greater ability to manage their health.  Information communication system to support well-integrated quality healthcare.  Clinical decision support systems to provide clinical practice information, conducive regulatory framework to facilitate data collection and sharing for biomedical and health service research