Healthcare is becoming increasingly driven by data and technology, and nursing informatics sits at the centre of that shift. This specialty combines clinical expertise with digital systems to improve ...

CHICAGO – With the increasing adoption of healthcare information technology, nursing informatics – which combines nursing practice with computer expertise – is playing a growing role in patient care ...

The HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago included the release this week of the 2015 Impact of the Informatics Nurse Survey, which indicates, among numerous findings, that the role of ...

In this special Speaker Series, Becker’s Healthcare caught up with Deborah Chasco, DNP, director of nursing informatics at the University Medical Center of El Paso (Texas). Dr. Chasco will speak on a ...

Sure, the mean annual salary doesn’t come close to the $169,000 you could make as certified registered nurse anesthetist (and face it, no nursing pay ever will), but informatics nurses are still in ...

In the world of ever-changing health care, effective organizational systems are essential to seamless operations. Proper data collection and knowledge of patient history could prevent the spread of a ...

The last decade in healthcare has seen an increasing transition, from a focus in the acute care setting to a broader perspective encompassing ambulatory, home health, hospice and long-term care ...

Nurses’ value can hardly be overstated, and one of the ways they demonstrate that value is through the use of health IT. From documentation to predictive analytics and telehealth, the combination of ...

The pandemic-driven technology revolution has transformed the healthcare industry more in the past two years than any other period in history. While some changes represent temporary measures, the ...

HIMSS has announced the winners of two awards recognizing clinician leadership in health IT, to be presented at the 2014 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, Feb. 23-27 in Orlando. Keith Salzman, MD ...