Health Informatics
Discover key insights about global health informatics, the related competencies and how these can be applied in the workforce.
Social Determinants of Health
Discover more about the social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age—and their broad impact on health, health equity and overall well-being in this guide.
EU*US eHealth Works to Improve Global Workforce Development White Paper
The EU*US eHealth Work Consortium white paper discusses the ways in which the EU*US eHealth Work Project will work to measure, inform, educate and advance development of a skilled eHealth workforce globally.
The Importance of Good Governance
Our guest writer shares while often overlooked, governance in a healthcare organization's information and technology can lead to a higher level of trust by patients.
Medication Process Compliance in Pediatric Inpatients – Time to the First
For most medical conditions, reducing the time between intent to treat and actual treatment is beneficial. The goal of this study was to determine the current state of the medication process at a university-affiliated children’s hospital. [Haresh L. Bhatia, Neal R. Patel, Catherine H. Ivory, Ph...
Could the Internet of Things Be Used to Enhance Student Nurses’ Experiences in a Disaster Simulation?
Schools of nursing recognized the need to prepare future nurses to care for victims, and function as part of the interprofessional team for all stages of disasters. Simulation has been one means to do this, with many schools investing much time and energy to create extensive disaster simulations....
Capturing and Evaluating Process Semantics from Front-Line Nurses: A Pilot Study
Tacit clinical knowledge acquired by front-line nurses over many years of practice is notoriously difficult to capture and codify. This study aims to enable front-line nurses to capture their own process domain semantics and constructs ontologies from the semantics and rank semantic similiarity....
Inspire, Innovate, Influence: This Is How Nurses Lead
Our guest writer shares how every nurse can inspire, innovate and influence no matter their position.
A Nursing Informatics Research Career in the Making—Personal Reflections and Insights
Georgsson, M. (July, 2018). A nursing informatics research career in the making – personal reflections and insights Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 22(2).
Ochsner Health System | HIMSS Davies Enterprise Award
Ochsner Health System received the 2018 Davies Enterprise Award for improving population health outcomes through digital medicine solutions, improved opioid prescribing practices and a successful transition to value-based care.
Mercy Health | HIMSS Davies Enterprise Award
Mercy Health received the 2018 Davies Enterprise Award for improving outcomes through a primary care rooming redesign, a bedside procedure charging workflow and a program that improved opioid prescribing practices.
Learning from Tragedy: Why We Need Effective Health IT
A story of how miscommunication and misdiagnosis led to tragedy and an example of why information and technology are so important in healthcare.