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 ...

In the world of ever-changing health care, effective organizational systems are essential to seamless operations. Proper data collection and knowledge of patient history could prevent the spread of a ...

Well-planned implementation may lay the groundwork for health IT usability, but nursing informatics is the key to its optimization, ONC CNO Rebecca Freeman, PhD, RN, wrote in an ONC blog post. The ...

The last decade in healthcare has seen an increasing transition, from a focus in the acute care setting to a broader perspective encompassing ambulatory, home health, hospice and long-term care ...

Geeta Nastasi, RN, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian joins the podcast to discuss her background, her focus on leveraging technology to ease the burden on nursing staff, NYP’s ...

Sure, the mean annual salary doesn’t come close to the $169,000 you could make as certified registered nurse anesthetist (and face it, no nursing pay ever will), but informatics nurses are still in ...

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 ...

Mary Beth Mitchell, RN, chief nursing informatics officer at Texas Health Resources, has won the 2015 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leadership Award, honored for helping make THR a national leader in its ...

The significance of nursing certifications is growing. Patients are living longer, which means the number of chronic ...