| Nurses must look into this news from HIMSS! Looking to the Future: HIMSS 2020 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey Thursday, May 21 l 12:00pm – 1:00pm CT l Register Building upon research that began in 2004, the HIMSS 2020 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey continues to show that nurse informaticists play a crucial role in healthcare. As we celebrate the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, it is a unique opportunity to recognize the increasing importance of the nurse informaticist. They are the driving force behind the development, implementation, and optimization of electronic medical/health records, nursing clinical documentation, point-of-care clinical decision support, and computerized practitioner order entry.As innovators and trailblazers, new nursing informatics workforce data reveal changing dynamics in education and training, clinical experience, job responsibilities, applications, barriers to success, and compensation. Attend this webinar to learn about the latest findings from the 2020 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey. |
| Applauding Informatics Nurses in the Year of the Nurse We’re reminded during this pandemic of the urgent need for reliable data at the individual, organizational, national and population levels. Documenting care is primarily a nursing responsibility. But using data to inform patient care delivery, execute resource management and implement strategies, including timely public health reporting, is a shared responsibility across the healthcare enterprise. Read more. |
| Two Journeys to the Path of Nursing Informatics Two nurse informaticists share the journeys that led them to their profession. One had a life-altering experience start her path, while the other’s happened organically; but both have a common thread: the power of education. Regardless of the steps they took, they’re each committed to lifelong learning and improving the lives of others through information and technology. Read more. |
| Demonstrating the Value of Nursing Care Through Use of a Unique Nurse Identifier As healthcare transitions to a value-based reimbursement model, nursing documentation in electronic health record (EHR) and other health IT systems will increasingly be used to demonstrate nursing’s contribution to that value. Nursing documentation can also be used to measure the contributions of nurses to improvements in individual and population health outcomes, patient safety, operational efficiency and clinical effectiveness. Hospitals and health systems need the ability to uniquely identify nurses in the EHR, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and other health IT systems for documentation, education, research and training purposes. Read more. |
| Informatics Nurses Forge Ahead in Changing World of Healthcare Whether you are new to your role as an informatics nurse, a seasoned specialist, performing research or consulting internationally as a project manager for EHR implementations, you know the exhilaration of discovery and the satisfaction of helping others. Nurses continue to impact patients and families not only in their place of employment, but throughout their communities. Using technology to understand the dynamics of population health and wellness promotion will be as important to our success long term as our illness prevention/management focus has been historically. Read more. |
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| Watch On-Demand Webinar: From the Frontlines: European Nurses Facing COVID-19 With the unprecedented crisis developing globally in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the essential role of nurses and midwives is more than ever visible and evident. Their role encompasses all touch points on the frontline of the response to COVID-19. They maintain continuity of care in the face of significant personal risk, bearing the brunt of patient care in acute, primary and social care sectors, and ensure the implementation of life-saving critical care on the frontline of the current crisis. In this first in a series of European wide webinars, we will focus on the challenges nurses face in the acute sector frontline response, sharing experiences from various countries currently engaged in the most significant public health crisis of our lifetimes. Watch On-Demand. |
| Online Journal of Nursing Informatics Volume 24, Number 1 Now Released Powered by the HIMSS Foundation and the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community, the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics is a free, international, peer reviewed publication that is published three times a year and supports all functional areas of nursing informatics. The journal was launched in 1996, with readership spanning over 49 countries. Click here to read the latest edition! |
| Physicians, Telehealth and COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities Thursday, June 4 l 1:00pm – 2:00pm CT l Register During this open table conversation, members of the HIMSS Physician Committee will lead discussion on the challenges physicians face on the frontline of the COVID-19 response and provide insight on telehealth best practices and lessons learned. |
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