Nursing Informatics

Dr. Ursula Hübner, is a full professor of medical and health informatics and quantitative methods at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany. She is head of the Health Informatics Research Group and serves as an academic dean for digitalisation and the promotion of young scientists at her university. Ursula Hübner is Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association. In 2021, she received the Most Influential Women in Health IT Award of the Health Information Management Systems Society. Dr. Hübner had worked in the computer industry for 10 years and at the University Hospital in Düsseldorf Germany after she had received her PhD from Düsseldorf University Germany in brain imaging studies.  Dr. Gabriela Mustata Wilson is a full professor at The University of Texas at Arlington and the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics co-Director. She is an internationally recognized healthinformatics expert with a passion for harnessing the power of research and translate it into community action. For the past twenty years, she has educated and trained learners in various interprofessional settings, conducted research in industry and academia and led partnerships across industry, academic institutions, and the community. Dr. Wilson has demonstrated her active support to the Health Informatics community by serving in numerous leadership positions within the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). She is the co-chair of the HIMSS Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) International Initiative, a global initiative fostering community development and workforce development using an interprofessional approach. Dr. Wilson is a Fellow Member of HIMSS bestowed in recognition of service, professional participation, job experience, publications, and presentations. She is also a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a distinction given to individuals who demonstrate a high degree of innovation through US patents that have brought real impact on the welfare of society.Toria Shaw Morawski serves as the Senior Manager of Professional Development, leading the global TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) interprofessional initiative and community at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). She has two decades of experience working in benefit of the non-profit sector, with 12 years dedicated to working in countries throughout Africa, the Caribbean and Europe focused on global health and international development initiatives funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In 2012, Toria obtained her MSW from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Jane Addams College of Social Work with a mental health concentration.Dr Ball is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), she has served on the Board of Healthon the Net (HON) in Geneva, Switzerland, was a founder of  the now TIGER HIMSS Initiative. She was elected to membership of the IBM Industry Academy. She received the Morris F. Collen Lifetime Achievement Award from ACMI/AMIA and the Award of Excellence, which is the  International Medical Informatics Association lifetime achievement award. Dr Ball was recognized by HIMSS as one of the Most Influential Women in Health IT, and also named as one of the Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT by Health Data Management. In 2021 she was named  the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering at the Univerdity of Texas at Arlington.

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• Introduction.- Health informatics: The science and practice of supporting the clinical workforce with data, information and knowledge.- TIGER: From nursing to interprofessional health informatics education.- TIGER: The impact of a global initiative on education and care.- TIGER: Ask the patient - An interprofessional perspective to engage clinicians and patients.- The 360° stakeholder perspective.- The patients' view.- The nurse's view.- The physician's view.- The pharmacist's view.- The therapist's view.- The CIO's view.- The view of health information management.- The CNIO's view.- The CMIO's view.- The CEO's view.- Data, Information and Knowledge.- Documentation and EHRs.- Information & knowledge management in patient care.- Quality & safety management.- Interoperable Systems.- Principles of health informatics.- Information & communication technology (applications): decision support.- Information & communication technology (applications): telehealth.- Information & communication technology (applications): smart mobile assistance.- Information Exchange and Information Sharing.- Interoperability & integration.- Care processes & IT integration.- Process management.- Interprofessional digitally enabled cooperation.- Population health and interoperability.- Data science.- Learning Healthcare System.- Data analytics, machine learning and visualisation.- Ethical and Legal Issues.- Data protection & security.- Cybersecurity.- Legal issues in health IT.- Ethics in health IT.- Education.- Teaching, training & education in healthcare.- (Learning techniques) - digital professionalism.- Global Workforce development.- Management.- Principles of management.- Strategic management.- Communication.- Leadership.- Change & stakeholder management.- Resource planning & management.- Global development - some examples.- Telehealth in developing countries.- Brasil: Clinical use of terminologies in patient care.- China: Mobile devices (NI education beyond borders).- Singapur.- Nigeria.- Japan.- Bangladesh.- Mali .- Canada.- Italy.- Conclusion.- Emergering Technologies (Augmented Reality, Machine Learning).- Outlook and Future.