This site offers links to recommended online resources related to nursing informatics and technology in health care and promoting health.
Publications
Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics
CJNI is an independent, peer - reviewed, online, open, quarterly journal devoted to the evolution of nursing informatics.
Healthcare Innovations
Publication and resources related to computer technology and healthcare.
Informatics
An international, open access journal on information and communication technologies, human-computer interaction, and social informatics, and is published quarterly online by MDPI.
Online Journal of Nursing Informatics
OJNI is a free, international, peer reviewed publication (managed by HIMSS) that is published three times a year and supports all functional areas of nursing informatics.
Organizations
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
A professional association representing more than 40,000 specially educated health information management professionals who work throughout the US 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 (AMIA)
a nonprofit membership organization of individuals, institutions, and corporations dedicated to developing and using information technologies to improve health care.
American Nursing Informatics Association
Founded in 1992, American Nursing Informatics Association or ANIA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting nurses who design, implement and manage information technology and systems that enhance nursing education, clinical practice and research through networking, education, and professional activities.
American Telemedicine Association
Resource and advocate promoting greater access to medical care for consumers and health professionals via telecommunications technology. ATA seeks to bring together diverse groups from traditional medicine, Internet online firms, academic medical centers, technology and telecommunications companies, e-health sites, medical societies, government and others in order to resolve barriers to the advancement of telemedicine through the professional, ethical and equitable improvement in health care delivery.
Association for Information Systems (AIS)
Founded in 1994, is a professional organization whose purpose is to serve as the premier global organization for academics specializing in Information Systems. Their mission is to advance knowledge of how the use of information technology can lead to improved organizational performance and individual quality of work life.
Canada Health Infoway
Infoway helps to improve the health of Canadians by working with partners to accelerate the development, adoption and effective use of digital health solutions across Canada.
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
The Centre is a joint effort of UHN and the University of Toronto and was built with funds from the Canadian government, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Innovation Trust. It is a place where human, physical and virtual resources come together to develop and evaluate eHealth innovations, using the expertise of leaders in the social sciences, technology and health fields. Using the Centre's state-of-the-art facilities and resources, we are able to engage in collaborative, transdisciplinary efforts, crossing institutional, political, cultural and geographic boundaries.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Pertinent information and discussion of privacy of medical records, consumer information and other forms of electronic threats to confidentiality.
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Provides leadership in healthcare for the management of technology, information, and change through publications, educational opportunities, and member services. HIMSS has more than 43 chapters and more than 12,000 members working in healthcare organizations throughout the world. Members include healthcare professionals in hospitals, corporate healthcare systems, clinical practice groups, vendor organizations, healthcare consulting firms, and government bodies.
IMIA - NI
The Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group of the International Medical Informatics Association
National Institutes of Health Informatics
NIHI is a virtual, self sustaining institute of institutes operating under the concept of an academic Community of Practice. It is established as a federal not-for-profit corporation in Canada. NIHI serves as a co-ordinator and facilitator that assists in defining, fostering the development of, and bonding together local Health Informatics (HI) initiatives in academia and industry dedicated to HI research.
Applications
ANCC Informatics Nurse Credentialing
The ANCC Informatics Nursing board certification examination is a competency based examination that provides a valid and reliable assessment of the entry-level clinical knowledge and skills of registered nurses in the informatics specialty after initial RN licensure. Once you complete eligibility requirements to take the certification examination and successfully pass the exam, you are awarded the credential: Registered Nurse-Board Certified (RN-BC).
How Technology is Transforming Healthcare
Technology plays an important role in many aspects of our lives. Similar to the way technology has improved banking or the way we connect with family and friends, digital health is changing the delivery of care.
Lab Tests Online
Lab Tests Online is an award-winning health information web resource designed to help patients and caregivers understand the many lab tests that are vital part of medical care.
Usability.gov
This site provides guidance and tools on how to make Web sites and other communication systems more usable and useful. This site was developed to specifically assist Web managers, designers, usability specialists, and others create Web sites that are highly responsive, easy-to-use, and useful.
Vassar Stats Computation Center
A truly impressive site featuring various java based calculators for analyzing quantitative data using Chi Squares, t tests, correlation and regression, z tests, and analysis of variance. Also provides theory related to these statistical tests from Professor Richard Lowry of Vassar College.
WordPress
A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
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