boston area informatics folks--informational interview with excited newbie?

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Wow, am I ever excited to have found that there's such a thing as nursing informatics!

I quit nursing for all the usual reasons in 1985--really, nothing has changed--and became a medical book editor, then a managing editor for a medical publication, and then a software technical writer. Whilst investigating yet another career change, I stumbled on this!

I think this could be a great fit for me--I have clinical experience, I know lots of medical science, I can program with beginner proficiency, I know a lot about the software development process, I know how to work with engineers and geeks and even like it, I have intermediate knowledge of lots of platforms, languages, and tools, I'm proficient in HTML, I have project management experience, I've taken an algorithms class, and, oh yeah, I can document anything for any audience.... I'm guessing these are all directly relevant.

Are there any nursing informatics people in the Boston area who'd be willing to have a short conversation with me about the field--opportunities, getting started, meetings to attend?

(I've already scoped out the AMIA and ANIA sites and local meetings.)

Cheers!

Becky