Graves and Corcoran provided the first widely cited definition downplaying the role of technology and incorporating a more conceptually oriented viewpoint: A combination of computer science, information science, and nursing science designed to assist in the management and processing of nursing data, information, and knowledge to support the practice of nursing and the delivery of nursing care.
They discussed the need to understand “how clinical nurses structure clinical problems and how they ask questions of the information system.” These views drew researchers involved in the study of decision making under the rubric of nursing informatics. Graves and Corcoran's definition allowed a concentration on the purpose of technology rather than on the technology itself. Their transformation of the definition for nursing informatics changed the focus from technology to information concepts by expressly incorporating information science.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC344585/
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