Nursing Informatics and

Healthcare Policy
By
IVORY LYKA S. LUMASAG
 One area of fast growth and dynamic change within regulatory
environment,industry is that of healthcare policy. In the current regulatory
environment, healthcare policy is growing to cover everything from the
design anf implementation of health insurance plans to the efficiency and
operations of majot hospitald and the regulations that keep
patients,hospitals,and prescription drugs safe.
 Healthcare policy is established on local,state, and national levels to guide
the implementation of solutions for the populations health needs.
 The number of informarics programs fir nurses has significantly increased,
preparing more informatics nurses specialists to practice in the field,and a
number of trends and events have placed information technology (IT),
information systems (IS),and infomatics at a center of attention in
healthcare.
 Healthcare Policy and Nursing
informatics as a Specialty
Nurses have contributed to the purchased, design, and implementation of IS
since the 1970s and in 992, the American Nurses Association (ANA) recognized
NI as a specialty.
 To be acknowledged as a specialty within nursing informatics had to:
 Demonstrate a differentiated practice base
 Identify the existence of educational programs in the field.
 Develop a research agenda
 The definition of NI:

 BEFORE:
NI was defined as the combination of nursing information, and computer
sciences to manage and process nursing data into information and
knowledge for use in nursing practice.
 NOW:
NI is described more broadly as a specialty that integrates nursing
science, computer science, and information science to manage and
communicate data, information and knowledge in nursjng practice.
OTTOWA DECLARATION
 Pre-requisite To Health:
1. Peace
2. Shelter
3. Education
4. Food
5. Income
6. A stable eco-system
7. Sustainable resources
8. Social justice and equity.
What is OTTOWA DECLARATION?

 The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is the

name of an international agreement signed at
the First International Conference on Health
Promotion, organized by the World Health
Organization (WHO) and held in Ottawa,
Canada, in November 1986.
FIVE ACTION AREAS
 Building healthy public policy
 Creating supportive environments
 Strengthening community action
 Developing personal skills
 Re-orientating health care services toward prevention of illness and
promotion of health.
THREE BASIC STRATEGIES
 Advocate
 Enable
 Mediate
PRIORITIES of this POLICY
 Nutrition
 Prevention of food adulteration and quality of drugs
 Water supply and sanitation
 Environmental protection
 Immunization programs
 Maternal and child health service
Healthcare Policy Impact on Nursing
Informatics Practice
Nursing Shortage and Nursing Informatics
 Nursing has experienced a number of shortages in recent history.
1. An older nursing workforce
2. A higher ratio of older associate degree graduates
3. The availability of more attractive career opportunities for women
4. Decreased interest in nursing as a career difficult work environments.
 QUIZ!!!
 What is the topic of today’s discussion?
 Give one Pre-requisite to health
 Give one Five action areas
 Give one Basic Strategies
 Give one Priorities of Healthcare Policy.