TELENURSING is an EU concerted action within the TELEMATICS Programme area 3: Health Care. The purpose of TELENURSING is to promote standardized and formalized clinical nursing care data based upon uniformed definitions of data items with the purpose of developing countable and comparable nursing minimum data sets as a means of communicating nursing care information electronically between clinical settings, health care sectors nationally and European-wide and as a means of producing Euro-Nursing Health statistics on people's need for nursing care.