NI 2012 Theme: Advancing Global Health through Informatics
Globalization and increasingly open flows of information are facilitating access to isolated areas where health needs are extreme - creating new channels and new opportunities for health and healthcare. Nurses, midwives, community health workers, and other professionals around the globe are contributing in significant ways, using informatics to impact care improvement, enhance professional practice, influence policy, and conduct research. Sharing the important contributions that are made as we strive to enable "Health For All" via Informatics is critical because the problems we face – while global in nature- are local and context specific, strongly related to social determinants such as economic and cultural factors, living and working conditions and individual behaviors. In coming together as a global community, we have an opportunity to showcase the plurality of solutions that have spawned from the collective wisdom both within nursing and extending to other domains of healthcare. The education tracks, classification structure, and categories below are intended to guide authors in classifying their themes to align with the overall reach and intent of this Congress.
Education Tracks
- Capacity building in poor resource settings
- Care coordination and communication
- Clinical decision support
- Data exchange standards
- Global health
- Healthcare workflow and process efficiency
- Improving informatics knowledge and skills of nurses, other health professionals, and other health workers
- Intersectoral capacity building through information and communication technology (ICT)
- Meaningful use of HIT to improve nursing care and patient outcomes
- Meeting information needs of nurses, other health professionals, and other health workers
- mHealth
- Nursing documentation systems
- Nursing knowledge representation
- Patient safety
- Personal health information management tools
- Practice-based knowledge generation
- System implementation
- System usability/computer-human interaction
- Technology adoption/acceptance
- Telehealth including distance education
