Nursing Informatics Working Group - NIWG

Mission
To promote the advancement of nursing informatics within the larger interdisciplinary context of health informatics. The organization and its members pursue this goal in many arenas: professional practice, education, research, governmental and other service, professional organizations, and industry. The Working Group represents the interests of nursing informatics for its members and AMIA through member services and outreach functions, provides official representation to IMIA-NI and liaises to other national and international groups.

Nursing Informatics History Project
The overall purpose of the Nursing Informatics History Project is to document and preserve the history of nursing informatics.  For more information, please visit http://www.amia.org/niwg-history-page

AMIA Members Attend NI2009

A number of AMIA NI-WG members will present at NI2009 in Helsinki Finland, 28 June – July 1, 2009.  Go to Current News to see the list of authors and their presentations.

Upcoming NIWG Webinar - Crucial Conversations About Creating Usable Systems for Nurses

Dr. Nancy Staggers and Colleagues will present on this topic.
Date of Presentation: April 30th, 10:00 Mountain Time, 12:00 Eastern time.

*Due to a family emergency, Nancy Staggers will not be presenting or attending the "Crucial Conversations about Creating Usable Systems for Nurses" webinar taking place on April 30th.  Taking her place in presenting the webinar material will be:

-Greg Alexander, PhD, RN from the University of Missouri
-Denise Tyler, RN, BC, MSN from Kawaeh Delta Health Care District
-Cheryl Parker, MSN, RN, PhD from Motion Computing

The archive Webinar will be available for viewing in the coming weeks.