To meet the demands created for a new generation of nurses at the threshold of the millennium, the editors of Nursing Informatics have prepared this revised third edition of the premier reference text that has defined the role of technology in nursing. The book addresses three main areas: nursing informatics education, enabling technologies, and emerging trends. Core chapters and appendices from the first and second editions have been updated and expanded. New chapters on project management, consumer informatics, data mining, electronic medical imaging, and telehealth have been added by contributors who provided examples of integration of technology into nursing, rather than theory. Readers will be apprised of the latest developments in: Curricula, competencies, and careers; Clinical capabilities-usability, nomenclature, and data mining; Approaches to projects and people; Clinical support-decision making, and care delivery; Telenursing, telehealth, and telecommunications; Web and Internet-based resources Marion J. Ball, Ed.D., is a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, a vice president of the First Consulting Group, a member of the Institute of Medicine. Coeditor of "Springer-Verlag's Health Informatics" series, she is actively involved in a wide range of health informatics applications in the public and private sectors. Kathryn J. Hannah, R.N., Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, and vice president and chief health informatician at Sierra Systems Consultants, Inc. She chairs the board of directors of HEALNet (Health Evidence Application and Linkage Network) and is coeditor of Springer-Verlag's Health Informatics serious. Susan K. Newbold, M.S., R.N., is a doctoral candidate with emphasis on nursing informatics and an instructor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is the founder and cochair of the Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in NursinG (CARING), and associate editor of Computers in Nursing. Judith V. Douglas, M.A., M.H.S.., is a manager at the First Consulting Group, and a lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. A columnist for MD Computing, and a member of several editorial boards, she is a published writer and editor in the areas of nursing and healthcare informatics.