This document discusses the importance of nursing informatics in healthcare delivery in the Philippines. It defines nursing informatics as integrating nursing science with information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate patient data. Nursing informatics provides information to patients, nurses and other providers to aid health development using current IT trends. While still developing, nursing informatics in the Philippines follows biomedical informatics and aims to enhance clinical decision making and access to patient information through electronic documentation and monitoring. It applies to all nursing areas like documentation, electronic medical records, and reminders to improve efficiency and reduce errors.

1. Importance
of Nursing
Informatics
in the
Health Care
Delivery
System with
the current
Philippine
Situation

2. Objectives
▪ Define nursing informatics
▪ Understand the importance of Nursing
Informatics
▪ Application of nursing informatics in the health
care delivery system here in the Philippines

3. What is Nursing Informatics?
▪ According to American Nurses Association (ANA), it is the
specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple
information management and analytical sciences to identify,
define, manage, and communicate data, information,
knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. (© 2016
American Medical Informatics Association.)
▪ This is to provide information and knowledge to patients,
nurses and other health care providers to be of help in the
development of health. This is attained with the use of the
current trends in information technology that distributes
knowledge and information, mainly by social media like the
internet and the television.

4. Nursing Informatics in the
Philippines
▪ The Philippine Nursing Community have long sought to
keep up with increasing use of information and
technology in the healthcare system. Nursing
Informatics follows the footsteps of biomedical
informatics which has gained relative popularity earlier
than it’s other allied medical counterparts.
▪ Despite being in it’s early stage of development, the
subspecialty of nursing informatics in the Philippines
have more than decade which led to future programs
and activities. (Kristian R. Sumabat, RN)

5. ▪“Nursing informatics" were unfamiliar among the
nursing community until the year 2008. There were
only a handful of people with knowledge and
experience in nursing informatics but the discipline
have not yet found its recognition as a sub-specialty
of nursing arts and science in the country. The origin
of this budding discipline indirectly came from the
pioneers of health informatics in the Philippines.
(Kristian R. Sumabat, RN)

6. Importance of Nursing informatics
(Lee, Andrea BSN, RN)
▪ Applying technology to knowledge may help identify potential
problems earlier. For example, with the use of electronic
documentation, identifying changes in patient status can
occur quickly because the information is readily available.
Trending of patient’s vital signs is always accessible and the
data are interpreted, systemized, and arranged.

7. ▪ Competency in nursing informatics promises to strengthen
our clinical decision-making skills. Although new technology
may be a challenge for some, informatics will enhance
nursing practice.
▪ Quicker access to patient information, improve overall
efficiency, and see a reduction in potential errors.
Importance of Nursing informatics
(Lee, Andrea BSN, RN)

8. Application of Nursing Informatics in the Health
Care Delivery System (Lecture Notes-Class # 2)
Nursing Informatics can be applied to all areas of nursing practice. Below are some examples
of how nursing informatics are used to support various areas of nursing practice.
 Work lists to remind staff of planned nursing interventions
▪ Computer generated client documentation
▪ Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Computer-Based Patient Record (CPR)
▪ Monitoring devices that record vital signs and other measurements directly into the client
record (electronic medical record)
▪ Computer - generated nursing care plans and critical pathways
▪ Automatic billing for supplies or procedures with nursing documentation
▪ Reminders and prompts that appear during documentation to ensure comprehensive
charting

9. References
• Lee, A. B. (2014, July/August). The role of
Informatics in Nursing.
• Kristian R. Sumabat, R. (2010, April).
• (2016). Retrieved from American Medical
Informatics Association:
https://www.amia.org/programs/working-
groups/nursing-informatics
• (n.d.). Retrieved from Lecture Notes-Class # 2:
http://web.csulb.edu/~dkumrow/informatics/l
ec2.html