No-borders nursing. How technology heals global ills.
As health care increasingly becomes a global industry, it increasingly comes face-to-face with global challenges. Fortunately, information technology can play a key role in meeting those challenges--if it can achieve ubiquity. This article addresses some of the reasons why healthcare is going global only slowly and offer solutions for nursing that will help it to play a role in accelerating that process.
Simpson
Roy L
RL
Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO 64117, USA. rsimpson@cerner.com
D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D005544:Forecasting; D014943:Global Health; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007391:International Cooperation; D024802:Nurse's Role; D014480:United Nations / Q000458:organization & administration