We wanted to learn more about what informatics nurses do and review some of the highlights of the recent workforce survey done by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). So ...

Professor and Associate Dean for Technology and Innovation, and senior scientist at the UAB Informatics Institute, Jacqueline Moss, PhD, RN, FAAN, first became interested in informatics as she ...

I fell into a role in informatics. It was my innate curiosity that led me there and an instinct that working with technologists - we weren’t talking about data quite so much back then - was an ...

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 ...

Nurses are critical to healthcare delivery, but a new survey indicates nurses with informatics capabilities and intelligence can boost care quality and bring value to the use of clinical system and ...

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 ...

Informatics nurses are getting more commonplace – even if their leadership isn’t. A new report on informatics nurses released at HIMSS 2015 this week showed that these nurses, who mix traditional ...

Graduates of the UAB School of Nursing Nursing Informatics specialty are in leadership positions at top health care organizations across the country developing advances that positively impact patients ...

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 ...

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 ...