We wanted to learn more about what informatics nurses do and review some of the highlights of the recent workforce survey done by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). So ...

CHICAGO – With the increasing adoption of healthcare information technology, nursing informatics – which combines nursing practice with computer expertise – is playing a growing role in patient care ...

How Did We Get Here? When an individual makes a decision to become a nurse, the paths he/she can follow are well defined. Individuals enter a 4-year college or other program that qualifies them to ...

More and more nurses have been bridging the gap between information technology and clinical practice. And Mary Beth Mitchell, a registered nurse, finds herself happily positioned at these crossroads. ...

Nursing informatics play a valuable role in the delivery of healthcare and use of healthcare technology to achieve quality improvements, according to a position statement recently released by the ...

Slowly but surely, technology is invading every workplace in America. Now it’s nursing’s turn. Demand is growing rapidly for nurse informaticists, a role that combines traditional nursing with ...

More than half of healthcare providers say that they have nurse informaticists on their clinical informatics staff, according to “Needles in a Haystack: Seeking Knowledge with Clinical Informatics,” a ...

I fell into a role in informatics. It was my innate curiosity that led me there and an instinct that working with technologists - we weren’t talking about data quite so much back then - was an ...

The HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago included the release this week of the 2015 Impact of the Informatics Nurse Survey, which indicates, among numerous findings, that the role of ...

Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Katie Barr explains her health system’s approach to artificial intelligence adoption to improve clinical workflows.