Are medical informatics and nursing informatics distinct disciplines? The 1999 ACMI debate.
The 1999 debate of the American College of Medical Informatics focused on the proposition that medical informatics and nursing informatics are distinctive disciplines that require their own core curricula, training programs, and professional identities. Proponents of this position emphasized that informatics training, technology applications, and professional identities are closely tied to the activities of the health professionals they serve and that, as nursing and medicine differ, so do the corresponding [...]
Author(s): Masys, D R, Brennan, P F, Ozbolt, J G, Corn, M, Shortliffe, E H
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070304