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 ...

Professor and Associate Dean for Technology and Innovation, and senior scientist at the UAB Informatics Institute, Jacqueline Moss, PhD, RN, FAAN, first became interested in informatics as she ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Graduates of the UAB School of Nursing Nursing Informatics specialty are in leadership positions at top health care organizations across the country developing advances that positively impact patients ...

The pandemic-driven technology revolution has transformed the healthcare industry more in the past two years than any other period in history. While some changes represent temporary measures, the ...

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 ...

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 ...