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The purpose of this policy is to establish guidance on short message service (SMS) text messaging by members of the healthcare workforce and address security risks presented by SMS text messaging [Lisa Storck].

This paper explores the implications that are most notable in today’s healthcare world within the nursing and healthcare informatics fields.

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 purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits and barriers of implementing radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology in the healthcare sector and to provide recommendations to overcome potential barriers. 

Current Strategies to Implement Informatics into the Nursing Curriculum: An Integrative Review. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 21(3).

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...

Health related gaming is an alternative medium for the delivery of patient education materials. To date, these types of interventions have been used throughout the healthcare environment, however no extensive review has been conducted to determine the characteristics of these interventions. The a...

An electronic patient portal is a potentially powerful tool to facilitate self-management support for patients with multiple chronic conditions; however, patients are not taking advantage of this resource.

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....

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....

ONeill, K., Robb, M., Kennedy, R. Bhattacharya, A., Dominici, N. & Murphy, A. ( July, 2018). Mobile technology, just-in-time learning and gamification: Innovative strategies for a CAUTI education program. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 22(2)