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Health Data Management

February 1, 2012

As long as there have been electronic health records, clinicians have complained that they're difficult to use. These cries have often been dismissed as resistance to modern technology-ironic considering that the complainers are perfectly comfortable using robots to perform bypass surgery, zapping tumors with proton beams, or mapping brain activity with functional MRIs.

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Innovations in Nursing Informatics

Advance for Long-Term Care Management

January 9, 2012

Once considered an "emerging" specialty, nursing informatics is today one of the most dynamic domains within the discipline of nursing.

At the crossroads of technology and patient care stand the nurses who have chosen nursing informatics (NI) as their specialty.

NI is the specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.
Clinical Decision Support and Benefits of Early Warning Scoring Systems

December 21, 2011

Webinar: Wednesday, January 25th at 12:00 p.m. (EST)

This is the second presentation in the ongoing series on Clinical Decision support hosted by Philips Healthcare CMIO, Joseph Frassica, MD.
Congrats to the Class of 2013

Richard Quinn

The Hospitalist

December 7, 2011

Clinical informatics, the principle of blending health information technology (HIT) with patient care, is going mainstream. The subspecialty, popular in hospitalist circles, is scheduled to offer board certification following its recent approval by the American Board of Medical Specialties. The first examination will be administered by the American Board of Preventative Medicine and could be held as early as fall 2012, with certificates awarded early in 2013.
AMIA Plans to Promote Informatics Certification for Nonphysician Staff

iHealthBeat

November 30, 2011