ANA 2001 Nursing informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice. Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of data, information, and knowledge to support patients, nurses, and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology. (p. 17)
American Nurses Association. (2001). Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice. Washington, DC: American Nurses Publishing. International Medical Informatics Association - Nursing Informatics (IMIA-NI) - 1998
Nursing Informatics is the integration of nursing, its information, and information management with information processing and communication technology, to support the health of people world-wide.
International Medical Informatics Association - Nursing Informatics (IMIA-NI), 1998
| Graves & Corcoran 1989
"A combination of computer science, information science, and nursing science designed to assist in the managements and processing of nursing data, information, and knowledge to support the practice of nursing and the delivery of nursing care." (p. 227)
Graves, J. R., & Corcoran, S. (1989). The study of nursing informatics. Image: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 21 (4), 227 - 231. 
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