Articles
Past, Present and Future: The Outlook from Mid-Career Nurse Informaticians
The experience of a several early and mid-career nurses who chose to focus on nursing informatics (NI) is exploring - including how and why they chose this career path, the ...
Informatics and Nursing in a Post-Nursing Informatics World: Future Directions for Nurses in an Automated, Artificially-Intelligent, Social-Networked Healthcare Environment
The author looks at technological advancements currently taking place within healthcare, and proposes implications for the nursing role and the nursing informatics specialty. He also offers recommendations and insights towards ...
An International Perspective on Nursing Informatics: In Conversation with Nick Hardiker
Nick Hardiker, Director of the eHealth Programme at the International Council of Nurses, has worked with nurses and nursing leaders from many countries around the world to support the development ...
The Importance of Being Informatics Savvy
A discussion of the importance of nursing informatics as well as current and emerging considerations for nurse leaders.
Repeated Diagnostic Imaging Studies in Ontario and the Impact of Health Information Exchange Systems
Health information exchange systems can link the results of diagnostic imaging tests across hospitals and geographic areas, and potentially reduce the number of imaging studies ordered by physicians. The authors ...
Canadians Want Patient Online Healthcare Options
Eight in 10 Canadian adults want online access to their own health information yet fewer than one in 10 currently have it, according to a new study published in HealthcarePapers.
Patients Online: Whither from Here?
The authors discuss the valuable perspectives raised by the commentators about consumer health solutions, an area that is evolving quickly and has the potential to fundamentally change how several types ...
Book Review: The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Healthcare
If you haven’t yet read this game-changing book, grab your tablet and download it now. This is the most important healthcare book since Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s Prescription.
Influencing Change: Preparing the Next Generation of Clinicians to Practice in the Digital Age
The ways in which people seek and manage their healthcare are undergoing profound technological change. It is essential that the next generation of care providers are prepared to practice ...
HIMSS EMR Adoption Model Letter, April 17, 2011
We must advance EMR adoption in a way that provides our physicians, other clinicians, managers, funders and patients with new insights into the care delivered. In order to practice high ...