Nursing informatics provides benefits to the healthcare industry such as automatic billing for supplies based on nursing documentation. It also helps protect patient records by detecting and deterring unauthorized access through technical, physical, and personnel safeguards. Nursing informatics improves communication between clinicians through email, allowing quicker diagnosis, treatment, and access to lab results and medical databases from mobile devices. It also generates computerized nursing care plans and critical pathways to provide individualized patient care and continuity as staff changes, and allows for cost analysis and trend identification for budget purposes.