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 ...

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 ...

Nurses are critical to healthcare delivery, but a new survey indicates nurses with informatics capabilities and intelligence can boost care quality and bring value to the use of clinical system and ...

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 ...

Nursing informatics was still an emerging field and didn't have a certification until 1995. She also had to struggle to use the data she collected to disprove common perceptions, such as the time ...

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 ...

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 ...

Americans see a health professional just over four times a year on average, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Protection. If so, the patient files of the U.S. Census estimated 1.4 ...

When Bonnie Westra, MD, learned that the Department of Health and Human Services was issuing grants totaling $71.3 million to expand nursing education, she had mixed feelings. On the one hand, Westra ...