Nurse Informaticists News and Resources for Healthcare

Nurses Play a Critical Role in EHR Optimization, Data Governance

May 23, 2018 - Most healthcare organizations have now celebrated at least a handful of anniversaries with their electronic health records, and are now coming to the realization that implementation was only the start of a long and often difficult optimization and data governance journey. Even when health IT tools are well-suited to the organization right out of...

Over 80% of Nurses See Increased Role in Patient Management

May 07, 2018 by Jessica Kent

Eighty-seven percent of registered nurses (RNs) agreed that non-physician healthcare professionals, including RNs and nurse practitioners, are playing an increasingly important role in patient...

Population Health Nurses Require Changes in Education, Practices

April 06, 2018 by Jessica Kent

Nurses can play an integral role in improving population health, but healthcare stakeholders must first initiate changes in nursing education, practices, and policy to enhance population-focused...

Nurse Informaticists Can “Triage” EHR Optimization Problems

May 15, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare organizations still struggling to improve clinical workflows and address persistent EHR optimization and usability problems often turn first to their vendors in order to seek help with...

Chief Nurse Informaticists Tackle EHRs, Big Data Analytics

September 28, 2016 by Jennifer Bresnick

Nurse informaticists often work behind the scenes of the healthcare big data analytics landscape, fine-tuning electronic health records, overseeing data reporting tools, and training nurses and other...

National nursing informatics award goes to MD professor

December 04, 2013 by Jennifer Bresnick

Nancy Staggers, RN, PhD, FAAN received the prestigious Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award last month from the American Medical Informatics Association, marking nearly three decades of achievement in...

EHR, analytics fragmentation presents challenges for hospital

November 12, 2013 by Jennifer Bresnick

“Interoperability” is a word familiar to every health IT professional. But too often, it’s still preceded by “the lack of.” In hospitals and health systems nationwide, specialists like...

Clinical work leads to informatics for tech-savvy nurses

November 07, 2013 by Jennifer Bresnick

Not too long ago, the idea of having a full-time nurse informaticist on staff was nearly unheard of. But as information technology and the thirst for analytics permeates hospitals and health...

Q&A: PCMH drove analytics, population health at Philly center

November 04, 2013 by Jennifer Bresnick

For most people, a little incentive can go a long way towards galvanizing change, whether it’s customer reward points for buying certain products or a Christmas bonus at work for accomplishing a major...

What is the role of nurse informaticists in healthcare analytics?

October 07, 2013 by Jennifer Bresnick

When discussing the challenges and opportunities of health IT, physicians often take center stage as the face of the provider organization. But nurses are equally important in the search for...

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