ABSTRACT
Clinical nursing informatics began in the 1970s with the introduction of computers on clinical units in acute care settings. Today it has expanded to all health care settings and involves social media, mHealth (mobile health), telehealth, ubiquitous sensor data, e-patients, patient portals, and personal health records. With this evolution, attention has shifted from a focus on data entry to data and information extraction, including methods for obtaining meaning from multiple stores of patient data. Today, the data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) continuum of informatics offers a new perspective for advancing nursing science.
