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Nurses are the most-trusted health professionals and have a long history of patient advocacy. We expect nurses to have a significant impact on consumer participation in Health IT to increase use of Personal Health Records and Patient Portals from 10% today to over 25% in the next 2 years.
If nurses are to effectively encourage patients to use PHRs and similar health IT tools to engage more fully in their health and health care, we need to set an example by using them ourselves!
About ANI: The Alliance for Nursing Informatics is transforming health and health care through nursing informatics. Our mission is to advance nursing informatics practice, education, policy and research through a unified voice of nursing informatics organizations. www.allianceni.org
HealthIT.gov:
http://www.healthit.gov/
HealthIT video about personal health records:
http://www.healthit.gov/patients-families/video/health-it-you-giving-you-access-your-medical-records
CIN: Computers Informatics Nursing ANI Connections:
Read updates and articles from ANI leadership and members. Visit the CIN Website
American Health Information Management Association
www.ahima.org
AHIMA is the dynamic professional association that represents more than 40,000 specialty educated health information management professionals who work throughout the healthcare industry. Health information management professionals serve the healthcare industry and the public by managing, analyzing and utilizing data vital for patient care — and making it accessible to healthcare providers when it is needed most.
American Medical Informatics Association
www.amia.org
AMIA is the premier association in the United States dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration. AMIA’s mission is “to advance the public interest thorughcharitable, scientific, literary, and educational activities.”
ANI (Alliance for Nursing Informatics)
www.allianceni.org
A collaboration of organizations that represent a unified voice for nursing informatics. The Alliance represents thousands of nurses and brings together over 25 distinct nursing informatics groups in the United States. The NCNA Council of Nursing Informatics (CoNI) is a founding member of this alliance. As an NCNA member, you are eligible for member rates. If you want to be active within ANI, please contact NCNA.
CARING (Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in Nursing)
www.caringonline.org
CARING is a nursing informatics organization advancing the delivery of quality healthcare through the integration of informatics in practice, education, administration, and research with a focus on nursing.
Center for Healthcare Information Management
www.chim.org
The mission of CHIM is to positively impact the healthcare industry through the promotion of healthcare information technology; promote the collective business interests of its members; and earn recognition and respect as an HIT industry authority.
College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
www.cio-chime.org/index.asp
The mission of CHIME is to serve the professional needs of healthcare chief Information Officers and to advance the strategic application of information technology in innovative ways aimed at improving the effectiveness of healthcare delivery.
Healthcare Information Management Systems Society
www.himss.org
HIMSS is a not-for-profit organization representing information and management systems professionals in healthcare, serving our members, our customers, and our industry by providing leadership, education and networking. Their vision is to provide the highest value for lifelong learning in the areas of health care information, technology and change.
NCHICA (North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communication Alliance, Inc.)
www.nchica.org/default.htm
NCHICA is a privately funded, nonprofit organization that actively promotes the advancement and integration of information technology into the healthcare industry. Our members collaborate to adopt and implement standards for securely and efficiently collecting, maintaining, locating and appropriately sharing healthcare information. NCNA is a member of NCHICA, which means that as an NCNA member, you are entitled to member only rates. If you want to be active on any committees at NCHICA, please contact NCNA.
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
http://www.nursecredentialing.org/ancc/cert/eligibility/informatics.html
Certification and certification renewal, BS or higher degree, Informatics Nurse
CiteSeer
CiteSeer, hosted by Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and NEC Laboratories, Inc., offers a search feature for informatics articles listed on the CiteSeer site.
HIPAA Final Rules
http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/
The United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s website for official links to healthcare simplification regulations and information.
Thomas-Legislative Information on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Advance for Nurses
www.nursing.advanceweb.com
Printed journal as well as an e-journal, serving the metro regions of the Carolinas and Georgia. As a regional publication serving 50,000 nurses, it provides a variety of easy-to-read clinical and professional articles on topics that are most important to nurses today and that promote the nursing profession.
CIN: Computers, Informatics, and Nursing
www.cinjournal.com
Covers the application of computer technology to contemporary nursing practice, explaining the “how-to” and “why” at each step of the way. From the computer novice to experienced user, the journal offers a complete package that delivers realistic solutions. Readers discover how to use technology to save time and money, increase productivity, and improve communication. CIN Plus, included in CIN three times a year, provides more “how-to” information.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
www.jamia.org
AMIA’s bimonthly journal, JAMIA, presents peer-reviewed articles that assist physicians, informaticians, scientists, nurses and other health care professionals develop and apply medical informatics to patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration. JAMIA has rapidly established a reputation for presenting high-quality, cutting-edge information. Each issue contains state-of-the-art reviews, discussion forums, and invited editorials presented as brief reviews or full-length papers. A variety of formats accommodates work at all stages, from model formulation through definitive studies.
Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI)
http://eaa-knowledge.com/ojni
The OJNI is committed to enhancing nursing knowledge on nursing informatics for nurses working in diverse settings.
Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics (SINI)
www.nursing.umaryland.edu/sini
Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics (WINI)
www.winiconference.net
