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 ...

The pandemic-driven technology revolution has transformed the healthcare industry more in the past two years than any other period in history. While some changes represent temporary measures, the ...

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 ...

Nursing is a diverse field. Though many people’s image of a nurse is a blue-clad professional working in a hospital, nurses work in a variety of capacities and settings, and many never step foot ...

At the intersection of healthcare and information technology is health informatics — the science that guides the collection, analysis and use of data. Why is health informatics important? It helps to ...

In this special Speaker Series, Becker's Healthcare caught up with Deborah Chasco, DNP, director of nursing informatics at the University Medical Center of El Paso (Texas). Dr. Chasco will speak on a ...

My training to become a surgical nurse taught me much more than I expected. The hospital hosting the perioperative course was in the midst of implementing an electronic operating room management ...

WASHINGTON– What is a chief nursing informatics officer (CNIO), some people ask, and how important is one? In this era of healthcare payment realignment and evidence-based medicine, key stakeholders ...