Nursing informatics is a specialty area of nursing practice dedicated to the optimal use of technology to support professional practice and optimal client outcomes.A significant obstacle to the collection of nursing data is the

A) Canada Health Infoway.
B) International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) ,which lacks unified terminology for recording nursing practice.
C) Lack of evidence-informed practices for health information.
D) Absence of universally accepted methods for defining and coding nursing contributions to health outcomes.

Despite the escalation of the use of technology in health care and the recognition of nursing informatics,persistent absence of universally accepted methods for defining and coding nursing contributions to health outcomes is a significant obstacle to the collection of nursing data.The other options are not obstacles to collecting nursing data.The Canada Health Infoway is an incorporated national body with mandates to generate consensus on health information standards,to drive forward a national agenda of creating an electronic health record (EHR),and to act as the liaison to international standards and development organizations.The ICNP was developed by the International Council of Nurses;it comprises seven axes with associated terms for describing nursing practice and is the only unified international terminology for recording nursing practice.As health care systems respond to an increasingly complex technological environment,long-standing routines and tools are being superseded by strategic,evidence-informed practices that necessitate high-quality,timely health information.