scholarly journals Defining Nursing Informatics: A Narrative Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Reid ◽  
Anthony Maeder ◽  
Didy Button ◽  
Katrina Breaden ◽  
Mark Brommeyer
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Nursing Informatics ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Improve Patient ◽  
Rapid Transformation

Healthcare has experienced rapid transformation with the development of digital technologies which aim to make healthcare safer and more efficient. In response, health informatics has evolved, including nursing informatics, which integrates nursing, information and communication technologies (ICT) and professional knowledge to improve patient outcomes. New language has developed to describe informatics and its processes; however, this has generally been poorly understood. This paper will describe current definitions of nursing informatics from three different healthcare contexts: Australia, the United States of America and Canada, to identify the similarities and differences between these definitions and to summarise the distinct bodies of knowledge described by each country. These countries have amongst the oldest definition attempts in the literature. A pragmatic approach was taken in this narrative review, working forward from historic references and backwards from recent references extracted from published health and nursing informatics literature.

scholarly journals Features of the development of the field of information and communication technologies in the United States of America in 2020–2021

2021 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Alexandra Kukharenko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Active Implementation

The article describes the features of the development of the field of information and communication technologies in the century of digital transformation of society, the active implementation of innovative technological developments in economic and social processes, provides an analysis of the pace of development of the industry of information and communication technologies in the United States of America, describes the changes that have occurred associated with the global pandemic in 2020-2021.

scholarly journals Bibliometric Study of Technology and Occupational Health in Healthcare Sector: A Worldwide Trend to the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6732
Author(s):  
Esther Vaquero-Álvarez ◽  
Antonio Cubero-Atienza ◽  
Pilar Ruiz-Martínez ◽  
Manuel Vaquero-Abellán ◽  
María Dolores Redel Mecías ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bibliometric Study ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Hospital Epidemiology ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Information And Communication

Since the eighties, technological tools have modified how people interact in their environment. At the same time, occupational safety and health measures have been widely applied. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work considers that information and communication technologies are the main methods to achieve the goals proposed to improve working life and the dissemination of good practices. The principal objective was to determine the trends of publications focused on these technologies and occupational safety in the healthcare sector during the last 30 years. A bibliometric study was carried out. The 1021 documents showed an increased trend per country, especially for the United States (p < 0.001) and year (p < 0.001). The citations per year showed significant differences between citations of articles published before 2007 (p < 0.001). The year was also linked to the increase or decrease of articles (72.2%) and reviews (14.9%) (p < 0.001). The analysis of journal co-citations also showed that the main journals (such as Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology) were linked to other important journals and had a major part in the clusters formed. All these findings were discussed in the manuscript and conclusions were drawn.

Rules for State Conduct in the Cyber Domain

2019 ◽  
pp. 203-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Raymond
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Lower Priority ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Conscious Process ◽  
Rule Making ◽  
Governance Arrangements

This chapter explains the puzzling 2013 agreement of the UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on cybersecurity that existing international law applies to state military use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the 2015 GGE report that extended the consensus reached in 2013. These important developments in the emergence of rules and norms for cyberspace took place despite deteriorating relations between the United States and Russia. They also took place despite increasing global contention over Internet governance and cybersecurity issues more broadly, and occurred with less controversy than related (but lower-priority) Internet governance issues. The chapter argues that the 2013 and 2015 GGE reports were reached in large part as a result of a conscious process of rule-making and interpretation structured by agreed-upon secondary rules, and that the timing of the agreements reflected emerging consensus among participants despite remaining divergence on substantive preferences about governance arrangements for cyberspace.

Rescue chains and care talk among immigrants and their left-behind parents

2018 ◽  
pp. 219-236
Author(s):  
Sondra Cuban
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Rescue Chain ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Mexican Immigrant Families

This chapter examines the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by Mexican immigrant families living in the United States to care for their aged left-behind parents and grandparents suffering from poor health. It introduces the concepts of ‘rescue chain’ and ‘care talk’ to account for the interplay between ICTs and transnational families. Drawing on the stories of ten participants, the chapter considers how Mexican immigrants and their siblings, locally and abroad, form rescue chains to deliver care to ageing left-behind parents with health problems through ICTs. It shows that the rescue chain communication involves care talk that focused on protecting, providing, and proving that the care needs of the person in crisis were addressed. The chapter also reviews the literature on ageing and long-distance caring through ICTs, discusses theories on care and ageing, and explains the methodology and sources used in the study.

scholarly journals Emerging eHealth Directions in the Philippines

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (01) ◽  
pp. 144-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Fernandez-Marcelo ◽  
B. L. Ho ◽  
J. F. Faustorilla ◽  
A. L. Evangelista ◽  
M. Pedrena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Graduate Curriculum ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Short Courses

SummaryThis paper aims to provide an overview of research and education initiatives in the Philippines. Moreover, it outlines the various agencies and organizations that spearhead the eHealth projects.The researchers utilized internet-based review of literature, key informant interviews and proceedings from two eHealth conferences among Filipino researchers in 2011 organized by the authors.eHealth capacities in the areas of research, education and service have progressed dramatically in the last four decades as a result of improved access to information and communication technology. The National Unified Health Research Agenda initiatives have been led largely by higher educational institutions and organizations specializing in eHealth. Educational reforms have been seen with the establishment of the Masters of Science in Health Informatics, infusion of Nursing Informatics into the nursing under-graduate curriculum and offering of short courses on eHealth. Service-oriented organizations and innovations have also been formulated to meet the needs of the practitioners as information and communication technologies are embedded into the healthcare de-livery system.Experts, researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts have successfully promoted awareness and uplifted the standards in the practice of eHealth in research, education and service. However, three main areas of improvement need to be given priority: (1) Policy and standards creation, (2) capability building and (3) multi-sectoral collaborations.

scholarly journals Systematic review of research investigating psychotherapy and information and communication technologies

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sílvia Cristina Marceliano Hallberg ◽  
Carolina Saraiva de Macedo Lisboa ◽  
Déborah Brandão de Souza ◽  
Ariela Mester ◽  
Andréia Zambon Braga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Boolean Operator ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Mental And Behavioral Disorders

Introduction:Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are devices, services and knowledge that reproduce, process and distribute information. Psychotherapy has been influenced by these technologies, and there is a tendency for their role to expand.Objective: To describe the current panorama of the scientific literature on psychotherapy and ICTs.Method: This is a systematic and descriptive review. Searches were run on the electronic databases Biblioteca Virtual em Saude (BVS), PsycINFO, Scopus, PePSIC, ScienceDirect and Index Psi, using the Boolean operator AND and the descriptors psychotherapy, computers, Internet, cell phones and social networks.Results: A considerable volume of empirical research was found, published recently in many different parts of the world, especially in the United States. There is very little Brazilian research on the subject. The majority of the studies identified assess the efficacy or describe the development of techniques and psychotherapies, via ICTs, for prevention, diagnosis or treatment of mental and behavioral disorders. The psychopathology most investigated in this area is depression and it was not possible to draw conclusions on a possible trend for research into the subject to increase. The technology most investigated was the Internet and cognitive-behavioral therapy was the most common theoretical approach in these studies.Conclusions:Systematic reviews of published studies can detect gaps in the research agenda within a specific field of knowledge.

Future Normative Challenges

2021 ◽  
pp. 750-768
Author(s):  
Eneken Tikk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
International Security ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information And Communication

The discussion of norms and international security ahead of us will be paved with fundamental differences between cyber superpowers—the United States, China and Russia—about the pace and direction of further adoption and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). These differences, combined with dogmatic gaps between international and national law, and international and national policy, all constitute obvious apertures for malicious and hostile actors to achieve their goals. Our normative attention to ICTs needs to be both hard and soft, high and low, national and international, reactive and anticipatory, all at the same time.

Internet and Political Parties in Chile

2010 ◽  
pp. 276-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Araya Moreno ◽  
Diego Barría ◽  
Gustavo Campos
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication

Due to the importance that the Internet has gained as a means of communication, literature on political communication has incorporated it as one of its preferred topics of focus. Literature stems almost entirely from Europe and the United States. Very little is known about the political use of new information and communication technologies (NICTs) in other parts of the world. The present chapter aims to provide evidence in that line, starting from the study of the incorporation of the Chilean political parties to the Internet. In specific, the following questions are answered: In what extent do factors such as the organizational characteristics of the political parties explain their greater or lesser adoption of NICTs? What do parties use NICTs for? Furthermore, although briefly, the authors will try to answer the question whether the parties have experienced change in their interaction with the citizenry and their bases because of the usage of NICTs.

Women in Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa

2011 ◽  
pp. 1279-1285
Author(s):  
Vashti Galpin
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
African Women ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Women In Technology ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Sub Saharan

International research has shown that in most countries, there are few women studying towards information technology (IT) careers (Galpin, 2002), and there is much research, particularly in the United States (U.S.), United Kingdom (UK) and Australia into why this is the case (Gürer & Camp, 2002). This article considers the situation in sub-Saharan Africa and focuses on women’s involvement in the generation and creation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in sub-Saharan Africa, as opposed to ICT use in sub-Saharan Africa, which is considered elsewhere in this volume. There are a number of aspects to the generation and creation of ICTs: how women are involved in this process as IT professionals and how they are educated for these careers, as well how technology can be used appropriately within the specific conditions of sub-Saharan Africa. ICTs will be considered in the broadest sense of the word, covering all electronic technologies, from computers and networking to radio and television. Women’s participation is important: The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Gender Caucus (www.genderwsis.org) has identified women’s involvement in the design and development of technology as well as technology management policy, as key principles for the information society. Marcelle (2001) emphasizes the necessity for African women to become involved in technological and scientific areas, including “computer science, software engineering, network design, network management and related disciplines” (Marcelle, 2001, para. 15) to create an information society appropriate for African women. The diversity of those involved in design leads to higher-quality and more appropriate technological solutions (Borg, 2002; Lazowska, 2002). Background Sub-Saharan Africa has a population of 641 million, young (almost half under 15) and rural (35% urban). Significant problems are undernourishment, poverty and HIV/AIDS (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2004). All the countries in sub-Saharan Africa are classified as developing countries. Some countries are relatively wealthy, such as Mauritius, South Africa, and Nigeria, but have large wealth disparities within their populations. Women in sub-Saharan Africa are expected to focus on the home, they have less access to education and health, and their contribution to family and community is not valued (Huyer, 1997).

Use of Information and Communication Technologies among Older Adults

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Seifert ◽  
Shelia R. Cotten
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Advance Research

In the United States, more people are turning 65 daily than at any prior point in history. This demographic transition will likely continue for several decades. Older adults experience health declines as they age in addition to increased chronic health conditions. Though older adults are increasingly using information and communication technologies (ICTs), a digital divide still exists. In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of the research on the digital divide and ICT use among older adults, including what is currently known about the impacts of ICT use on older adults’ health and quality of life, limitations in measurement tools and existing data sources, and future directions for others hoping to advance research on this topic.

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