http://allnurses.com Where Informatics Nurses come to network with other NI nurses - sharing educational, career development, best practice and technological developments occuring within the specialty. Nursing Informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:05:50 GMT vBulletin 60 http://img.an-file.info/misc/rss.jpg http://allnurses.com http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/online-mobile-tools-440146-new.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:29:55 GMT From NursingL posted by Bob Pyke Jr.,RN,CPNP Enjoy! 1. Participatory Health: Online and... From NursingL posted by Bob Pyke Jr.,RN,CPNP
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1. Participatory Health: Online and Mobile Tools Help Chronically Ill Manage Their Care (Bob Pyke Jr.,RN,CPNP)

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Of the $2.2 trillion in total U.S. health care spending in 2007, 75% ($1.7 trillion) went to care for patients with chronic conditions. Despite this staggering expenditure, there are pervasive problems with the quality of chronic disease care. Chronic disease is most effectively managed through frequent, near continuous monitoring. Yet many patients spend only a few minutes a year with their clinicians.

According to the National Council on Aging, a third of all chronically ill people say they leave a doctor's office or hospital feeling confused about what they should do to manage their disease, and 57% report that their providers have not asked whether they have anyone to help implement a care plan at home.

New technology tools are emerging to bridge these gaps. This report describes some of the online and mobile platforms and applications that can assist patients in managing their health care -- not only at home, but almost anywhere else outside their clinician's office. Sources include extensive interviews with stakeholders in the field, whose experiences and views are presented throughout the report.

http://www.chcf.org/documents/chroni...ealthTools.pdf ]]> Nursing Informatics rninformatics http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/online-mobile-tools-440146.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/ni-leader-receives-440114-new.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:53:51 GMT Project HealthDesign Common Platform Now Available for Developers and Users/Director Receives... Project HealthDesign Common Platform Now Available for Developers and Users/Director Receives Leadership Award
November 19, 2009

Project HealthDesign Director Receives Leadership Award. The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has selected Project HealthDesign National Program Director Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, FAAN, FACMI, to receive a prestigious 2009 Leadership Award for her work with Project HealthDesign, creating a new vision for personal health records. Leadership Awards are given by the AMIA chairman and president and CEO for outstanding volunteer leadership and service to the association or in the field of medical informatics. The award was presented to Dr. Brennan at the AMIA Annual Symposium Leadership Dinner on Nov.14 in San Francisco, Calif. See What's New at Project HealthDesign.org

Project HealthDesign Common Platform Now Available for Developers and Users. The Project HealthDesign Common Platform - a set of software components that provide common, shared functions to a variety of personal health applications (PHAs) - is now available for use by developers and others interested in learning more about the platform. The Common Platform centralizes services for storing information such as observations of daily living (ODLs) and medication lists, as well as for providing authentication, registry, and access-control functions. First-round Project HealthDesign grantees developed applications on the Common Platform, demonstrating the feasibility of interoperability across diverse PHAs.
Through an open source agreement, developers and other users now have secure access to the Project HealthDesign Common Platform Development Environment (PHD-CDE), which is hosted and supported on a server by Sujansky & Associates, the project's technical consultant. ·Learn more at PDH-CDE ]]> Nursing Informatics rninformatics http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/ni-leader-receives-440114.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/himss-2010-any-440038-new.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:14:15 GMT I note that the HIMSS annual conference is being held from March 1-4 in Atlanta, GA. I plan to be... I note that the HIMSS annual conference is being held from March 1-4 in Atlanta, GA. I plan to be there, Lord willing. Anyone else going? ]]> Nursing Informatics Mijourney http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/himss-2010-any-440038.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/nursing-information-system-437926-new.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:22:38 GMT hi, Is there any one to help me about copmanies that deliver Nursing Information System Services?... hi,
Is there any one to help me about copmanies that deliver Nursing Information System Services? I need their web adress for information about their services.
thanks ]]> Nursing Informatics mahdi http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/nursing-information-system-437926.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/do-you-need-437572-new.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:16:25 GMT Hi.. to be more specific about my question, do I need some field experience in hospitals/clinics... Hi.. to be more specific about my question, do I need some field experience in hospitals/clinics doing bedside care and the typical nursing duties first before I can get considered for a Nursing Infomatics related job?

Reason I'm asking is because I'm looking to get into it by taking up a Masters in Nursing Informatics (I just recently had my BSN already), but I don't really want my time and resources to go to waste in the end, where I finally get my Masters in N.I. just to find out that most of the job openings for it require "5+ years of clinical experience" or so.

As for getting that sort of experience, that's not going to happen, since the reason I'm looking into N.I. is that I'm trying to avoid bedside nursing like the plague, because it wasn't really my thing to begin with (Got forced into taking up Nursing by my parents because of Lemmings Syndrome.. "Everyone's doing it, so do it too!").

If a Nursing Informatics job really is out of reach without a decent amount of clinical experience, then I'm just thinking now of getting a Medical Technology certification instead, since I find working with laboratories/ computers to be more of my niche. That's only my backup plan for now though, since I want to utilize the BSN I have right now for as much as I possibly can.

Anyway, thanks to any and all replies I'll get for this inquiry :spin: ]]> Nursing Informatics RickRank http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/do-you-need-437572.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/rwjf-and-iom-437335-new.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:22:23 GMT Update from ANI The Institute of Medicine (IOM) in collaboration with the Robert Wood... Update from ANI


The Institute of Medicine (IOM) in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has established a major initiative on the Future of Nursing. The initial cornerstone of the program would be conduct of a major study whose goal would be to produce a transformational report on the future of nursing.

An ad hoc committee is examining the capacity of the nursing workforce to meet the demands of a reformed health care and public health system. It will develop a set of bold national recommendations, including ones that address the delivery of nursing services in a shortage environment and the capacity of the nursing education system. In its report, the committee will define a clear agenda and blueprint for action including changes in public and institutional policies at the national, state and local levels. Its recommendations would address a range of system changes, including innovative ways to solve the nursing shortage in the U.S.

The committee may examine and produce recommendations related to the following issues, with the goal of identifying vital roles for nurses in designing and implementing a more effective and efficient health care system:

Reconceptualizing the role of nurses within the context of the entire workforce, the shortage, societal issues, and current and future technology;
Expanding nursing faculty, increasing the capacity of nursing schools, and redesigning nursing education to assure that it can produce an adequate number of well prepared nurses able to meet current and future health care demands;
Examining innovative solutions related to care delivery and health professional education by focusing on nursing and the delivery of nursing services; and
Attracting and retaining well prepared nurses in multiple care settings, including acute, ambulatory, primary care, long term care, community and public health.

Previous Meetings
Meeting 3. RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM. Monday, November 02, 2009 (8:00 AM)
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Additional Meeting Resources
Forum on the Future of Nursing: Acute Care Monday, October 19, 2009 (12:30 PM)
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Additional Meeting Resources
ANI submitted testimony available at: http://www.allianceni.org/docs/ANI_S...ureNursing.pdf
Meeting 2: RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM Monday, September 14, 2009 (9:00 AM)
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Additional Meeting Resources
View More Previous Meetings



Upcoming Forums
Two additional forums will be held in December 2009 and February 2010. These forums will also be webcast. More information on registration and options for public involvement will be available on the website at: http://www.iom.edu/en/Activities/Workforce/Nursing.aspx *The TIGER Initiative will be submitting testimony to future forums.



ACTION: ANI Organizations are encouraged to submit comments individually



Forum on the Future of Nursing: Community Health, Public Health, Primary Care, and Long Term Care
December 3, 2009 - Philadelphia, PA


Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education
February 22, 2010 - Houston, TX


Please let me know if you have any questions – thank you! ]]> Nursing Informatics rninformatics http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/rwjf-and-iom-437335.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/amia-nursing-informatics-437202-new.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:32:22 GMT Did you see this? Purpose The overall purpose of the Nursing Informatics History Project is to... Did you see this?

Purpose
The overall purpose of the Nursing Informatics History Project is to document and preserve the history of nursing informatics. This is occurring through three activities:
Nursing informatics pioneers and nursing informatics organizations have been solicited to preserve their materials in an archive at the National Library of Medicine started by Dr. Virginia Saba in 1997.
Stories of the pioneers in nursing informatics are being videotaped and made available through AMIA's website
Historical research is planned to document the evolution of informatics as a specialty in nursing.

Videotaped Stories from Nursing Informatics Pioneers


http://www2.amia.org/mbrcenter/wg/ni/history/index.asp ]]> Nursing Informatics rninformatics http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/amia-nursing-informatics-437202.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/him-ni-different-437159-new.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:17:46 GMT I've been looking at moving to another position. I have over 15 years of IT experience with Fortune 100 companies, a LVN/LPN license and over 20 years of management experience.

I'm looking for a IT Director or Assistant Director position. However, it seems people in the health care industry don't know anything about information technology.

Is coding IT? No, it's data entry. Do you have to have a RN to understand nursing and computers? No, you don't?

I'm looking for Information Technology Professionals who have successfully transitioned to the health care information technology world. I need those who can help me understand how to leverage my information technology experience, management experience and nursing skills and advance in an environment that is so closed to outsiders...

Please don't tell me I need to get my RN, I already know that. It's just more money out the window, the US Army already trained me at the RN level. All I need is the license. That's coming soon, I hope...

Everyone's looking for certifications like the RHIT. Looking at the Common Body Of Knowledge shows that certification is mostly a coding certification, and you need a degree in HIM.

How can true information technology professionals breaks through this artificial barrier? ]]> Nursing Informatics rickparrott http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/him-ni-different-437159.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/war-talent-about-436813-new.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:52:50 GMT This is good news for both experienced informatics nurses/clinicians and those without any... This is good news for both experienced informatics nurses/clinicians and those without any informatics experience who are trying to get their foot in the door.


FROM Healthcare IT News

War on talent about to begin in healthcare IT

October 23, 2009 | Bernie Monegain, Editor



BOSTON – The government's piece of the stimulus package aimed at boosting the adoption and use of healthcare information technology is expected to create 50,000 new jobs – maybe more.

A panel of healthcare IT experts who spoke Thursday at the 6th annual Connected Health Symposium in Boston agreed that 50,000 seems right.

"The need for IT is going to explode," said Andrew Vaz, national director of life sciences for Deloitte Consulting. He said companies like Oracle, SAP, IBM and Cerner are trying to position themselves to "win the war on talent," both in the United States and offshore.

"Fifty-thousand is a pretty big number," said John Glaser, CIO of Partners HealthCare in Boston and an adviser to the nation's healthcare IT chief, David Blumenthal, MD. "The timeframe is pretty short. That's just a lot of people in a short period of time."

There are a few unknowns.

"We don't know how fast that will occur," Glaser said. "Also, we don't really understand the secondary opportunities."

New workers will be needed at all levels, from pulling wire to overseeing installations, Glaser said. Doctors and other healthcare providers will also need help getting started.

"The current workforce in our healthcare organizations are not prepared to stretch," said Eileen Sporing, senior vice president for patient care operations and chief nursing officer at Children's Hospital Boston.
Eileen Sporing
She said nurses might not be as well prepared for the change from paper to digital as other healthcare providers.

"Nursing as a discipline is not advancing quickly enough in the informatics field," she said. "Nursing has a huge deficit of knowledge, a long curve." By contrast, she said, the pharmacy workforce seems "fairly facile."

Training

Glaser said training would be needed in established computer science and informatics programs in universities and community colleges, depending on the level of skills sought.

He said the federal government will "put some money on the table" for training. He also expects healthcare organizations will fund some of the training "because they've got to invest to draw talent." The same goes for vendors, he said.

Sporing agreed. "It's a mix, same as we're doing now," she said.

The biggest gap is in the higher-level set of skilled IT workers, Vaz said.

"It will be hard to find seasoned, experienced" personnel, Glaser agreed. And while there is appeal to hiring bright, energetic 23- and 24-year-olds, he said, there's an "element of effectiveness on the job" that comes from having seen and solved problems associated with major deployments. ]]> Nursing Informatics rninformatics http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/war-talent-about-436813.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/health-informatics-degree-434905-new.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:20:55 GMT Hi! Im a graduate of BS Nursing here in the Philippines. I have learned of the field "nursing informatics" and became very interested. I like working with computers more than doing bedside care (I know, i know) I am a fresh graduate and have no experience yet. I looked up for any health informatics courses in the Philippines and fortunately I found a masters degree in health informatics, and another in medical informatics. I have a couple of questions:

1. Would the degree in health informatics in my country be honored in the united states? or would i be asked to study in the US again?

2. Should I first have experience in bedside nursing before i go into informatics?

3. Is there a demand for nursing informatics right now?

thank you! ]]> Nursing Informatics forumjunkie http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/health-informatics-degree-434905.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/keep-your-credentials-433799-new.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:26:00 GMT well, of course you keep credentials up....but how many nurse informatics people keep up the basics... well, of course you keep credentials up....but how many nurse informatics people keep up the basics like CPR?

the reason I ask, is I am now moved to informatics nursing, and I fall under the Data/Finantial part of the hospital... and not under nursing at all. One of the things I had them put in my contract was that I was not to be asked to do supervision in the Hospital, and would not be mandated to take a patient assignment. (since that whole NY no overtime for nurses came out, they were looking at ways to make management cover for call ins...)

so now, I don't fall under any nursing. And my name doesn't come up for PALS, PERLS or even BLS....CPR. which many tell me is an easy out. Even in an emergency, they can't pull me away from my many projects and tell me I have to take an Med Surge assignment....if I don't even have basic CPR up to date...how could they?

what do other informatics nurses do?

and are you in a situation where they are apt to go to the office and pull you to a care area with no notice? (This happend to me all the time...even calling me out of computer training to work the floor or do discharges) ]]> Nursing Informatics CathyLew http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/keep-your-credentials-433799.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/health-care-providers-433785-new.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:48:08 GMT From iHealthBeat Friday, October 23, 2009 Health Care Providers, Industry Preparing for Surge... From iHealthBeat

Friday, October 23, 2009

Health Care Providers, Industry Preparing for Surge in Health IT Jobs

On Thursday, a panel of health IT experts agreed that the federal economic stimulus package is likely to spur the creation of about 50,000 new health IT jobs, Healthcare IT News reports.

The group spoke during the annual Connected Health Symposium in Boston.

They said many health IT vendors are positioning themselves to recruit a large talent pool of health IT professionals.

John Glaser -- CIO of Partners HealthCare and adviser to National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal -- said the government plans to allocate funds for health IT training. He said he expects health care providers and vendors also to dole out funds for training programs.

Challenges

Panel members also discussed some of the hurdles that a new health IT work force could face.

For example, Glaser said it will be difficult to predict how long it will take to create the 50,000 new jobs, and another panel member noted that nurses might be unprepared for a transition to fully electronic systems.

In addition, panelists noted that colleges and universities might need to scale up their training programs, particularly for advanced-level programs (Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 10/23) ]]> Nursing Informatics rninformatics http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/health-care-providers-433785.html http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/anyone-certified-epic-433647-new.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:26:17 GMT I am going to Epic in WI for training on Ambulatory Systems and then get a certification. Is there... I am going to Epic in WI for training on Ambulatory Systems and then get a certification. Is there someone who has been thru this process who could tell me how the exams would look like or maybe a few examples. I just wanted to get some idea of the type of exams.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide me. ]]> Nursing Informatics edaga7 http://allnurses.com/nursing-informatics/anyone-certified-epic-433647.html