Announcements

What: Using Data to Improve the Essential Nursing Documentation
The American Nurses Association’s Principles of Nursing Documentation set guidelines about the reasons for nursing documentation as well as its necessity. As documentation has moved from paper to electronic, there has been movement away from the guidelines. We have entered an age of documentation burden that has continued to climb, and nursing documentation burden is a national challenge. Join us for 1 hour to understand best practices for tackling nursing documentation burden. You will learn about the national landscape and how you can tackle this dilemma and bring joy back our nurses.

Who: Sherri Hess, Banner Health - Chief Nursing Informatics Officer

Where: Webinar – Meeting invite/Registration information in the Event RSVP 

When: June 2^nd (Tuesday), 2020 from 12:00 – 1:00pm

Why: Earn a free CE, support your local ANIA AZ Chapter and benefit from the wisdom of our peers!

The plan for this member call was for a ANIA National Conference recap and discussion.

We're going to postpone this member call and take the time to restructure our plan for 2020, shifting focus to virtual events.

Thank you!

ANIA Midwest wants to continue to support your educational needs....  from a physical distance.  We are here for you virtually.  Instead of our annual symposium planned for June in Indianapolis, we will be offering webinars throughout the year.  Stay tuned!  We are planning some interesting events.  We anticipate Tara Olson from the Mayo Clinic will be first on deck discussing data profiling for the nurse informaticist.

The National ANIA Conference scheduled for May 7-9, 2020 has been moved to August 20-22, 2020 due to COVID-19.  Location remains the same - Hyatt Regency in Chicago.  Please register on the main ANIA page.  Hope to see you all there!

We are moving the May 13th Chapter Meeting to June 10th at 530pm due to the Stay at Home directives still in effect in San Diego.  We are planning on a Virtual event for the June meeting, stay tuned for more info!  Stay safe everyone!

Dear Members,

On behalf of the officers of the Ohio Chapter of ANIA we would like to THANK all of you for what you are doing every day during these difficult and challenging times. We know you are making a difference at your organization, positively impacting the patients and families you serve. You are being an advocate, utilizing your informatics skills to provide tools for our clinicians. 

During this time we recognize that your priority is your work and family and we are putting our upcoming programming on hold. We look forward to getting this in full gear once we get back to some form of “normalcy”. With this said, please take advantage of our discussion boards to share what you are doing to meet the crisis at hand - how are you adapting and utilizing technology to meet the needs of our constituents. 

Stay strong and healthy – we will get through this and there is light at the end of the tunnel, just not sure when that is. Please practice social distancing.

Ohio Chapter ANIA Officers – Barb, Jill, Michael & Mary

Dear all,

Some helpful information on Clinical Informatics Resources for COVID-19: itepcovid.com 

 

“Members of the nursing informatics community, including members of AMIA NI-WG, AAN ITEP, HIMSS NI, and other organizations, with sponsorship from ANIA, have created a web page for information and resources focused on clinical and nursing informatics aspects of the COVID-19 response. You can use this resource by visiting: itepcovid.com We have a lot of material that our content team will be loading over the next few days – tips from hard-hit areas, copies of SOPs, etc... and information on webinars, etc... It is all public – you don't need any kind of membership or log in – the idea is to work across organizations and groups. You can help your colleagues across the world by sending field reports, tips, and other helpful information for posting to covid19@ania.org and a member of the content team will facilitate posting.  Thanks and stay healthy!    Mollie Cummins”

 

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Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor and Program Director
Nursing Informatics

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Department of Organizational Systems & Adult Health

655 W. Lombard. St., Rm 455 C

Baltimore, MD 21201
Office Phone: 410-706-4913; Fax: 410-706-3289; e-mail: enahm@umaryland.edu

Saturday, April 11 - 11:30am - 1:00pm
The Road to Nursing Informatics Career
with Michelle Charles MSN RN - VP of Nursing Informatics and CNIO at Parkview Health

Out of an abundance of caution due to the COVID-19 virus, and in alignment with most institutions that are avoiding conferences or meetings with a large number of people, we'll be postponing our Spring Education Session. We will notify you with details once it is rescheduled.

April 1, 2020 -  The Yard (Robinson Township)  5:30 PM order dinner, 6:00 PM speaker

June 3, 2020  - TBD evening 6:00 PM

August 12, 2020 - TBD lunch webinar 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

October 7, 2020 - TBD evening 6:00 PM

December 9, 2020 - TBD lunch webinar 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Find out about Jan (our President-Elect) and her road warrior experience!  Check out... About > Overview > Member Profile.

Check out the updated Chapter Leaders page under the About menu.

Save the Date for the ANIA SD 4th Annual Conference:
Friday, September 25, 2020
@ Scripps Memorial Hospital - La Jolla Campus

Please share the link below widely to support clinical informaticists, EHR builders and vendors in responding to the Coronavirus public health challenges. This is the ONC webinar registration link to a discussion to be held Feb 18.
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__zoom.us_webinar_register_1315811071583_WN-5FYBfirmFIRoWXeY4eaEDNcQ&d=DwIFAg&c=bKRySV-ouEg_AT-w2QWsTdd9X__KYh9Eq2fdmQDVZgw&r=sAw8G3Guo79vdEwyZIHGAmH1zgDbIsaNDz2F6vzUg4g&m=47Uj2Z0qG8f8M5bedY6urjw9wQdlLurJP32fBAt3UsA&s=g83Q_wfKqW-COcrQNA1CxEfRUEsUAemrWFCTboZ8-SU&e=

Give 2 hours of your time to give back by volunteering with us at St. Mary's Food Bank then join us for a social networking event at Aunt Chilada's. RSVP and get more details in the event link.

The ANIA South Florida Chapter is excited to start off 2020 with a focus on building community and engaging the nursing informatics community of South Florida.

Please join us for our Chapter Meeting and Educational session on Design Thinking.  

Date:   Wednesday 2/12/20
Time:   5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location:  UCSD IT Training Room #150
                 9560 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego​

On behalf of the NY Tri-State Chapter of ANIA, Happy New Year. We are very excited to announce that we will be having our Annual Symposium on Saturday September 26, 2020 from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm at the Rust Auditorium at North Shore University Hospital of Northwell Health. The chapter is currently seeking symposium podium presenters who are committed to their specialty and want to share leadership strategies, innovations in practice, quality improvement and patient outcomes, role and career development, and/or impact on practice presentations. Attached is the guideline for abstract submission. Submission deadline is March 31, 2020. Members will be notified of submission results by mid 2020. We welcome all levels of expertise to submit an abstract. As a chapter, we are offering mentoring to members who are interested in learning how to create an abstract. For more information, please email nytristateabstracts@gmail.com

The ANIA Great Lakes Chapter is looking for volunteers to serve on the Education Committee.  

Volunteers are needed to assist the Educational Chair in:

• Identifying educational topics for our members
• Organizing and facilitating educational events
• Creating, distributing and maintaining CEUs
• Participating in Education Committee Meetings (1 hour per month)
• Commitment of two-year term requested

      

Please email Rhonda Denzel @ denzelr@trinity-health.org if you are interested in volunteering your time to serve on the Educational Committee. 

Good news! We are extending our Early Bird pricing to 02-14-2020!

Questions? Email CoCommunications@aniasocal.com

Student rates available - email for more details
Vendor registration open - email for more details

On June 12, 2020, the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) Midwest Chapter will be hosting a symposium at Indiana University (IU) Health Fairbanks Hall in Indianapolis, Indiana.  The main topic/theme of the symposium will be “Finding the Gems in Big Data”. 

The goal of this conference is to allow everyone to take a day to come together and explore ways that nursing informatics professionals can use data to further the profession.  If you have practical information and experiences that you can share to help support your colleagues in gaining knowledge and wisdom to help shape the nursing informatics profession, we want you to join us and share that information at the symposium. Submissions must be received by January 31, 2020. 

Within this theme we would like to focus on the following:

1. Data Management in Nursing Informatics
2. Technology tools for locating, accessing, sharing, and using data
3. Overcoming challenges in creating value from exponential data from electronic health records
4. Data science methods and techniques for managing large data sets
5. Privacy and security
6. Standardized terminology frameworks
7. Data Analysis to Demonstrate Nursing Value
8. Strategies for implementing data analysis skills for nursing informatics to improve patient care (potential areas may include population health, patient safety, reducing costs, improving social determinants of health, transitioning to care coordination models for new payment models, improving patient experience)
9. Recent advances in analytics such as data science concepts or artificial intelligence
10. Using data analysis to drive decision making and prioritization for documentation improvement to reduce burden

 

Proposal Evaluation Criteria:

Proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria: speaker experience, originality of the material, timeliness of the information, clarity, and educational value.

Submit Proposals to ANIA.midwest.region.chapter@gmail.com by 5pm on January 31, 2020. 

Please contact  jlywatts@indy.rr.com  or norris.bonnie@mayo.edu if you have questions. 

*** ANIA Midwest will not cover travel / lodging costs

Conference Agenda-at-a-Glance

Thursday, June 11, 2020 5:00 pm  Social/networking event Friday, June 12, 2020 (tentative)
7:00 – 8:00 am Registration /breakfast
7:30 -  8:15 am  Vendor sessions /breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 am Welcome and opening comments
9:00 -10:30 am Keynote speaker
10:30 - 10:45 am Break
10:45 am -  11:45 am Morning Session #1
11:45 am – 1:00 pm lunch 1:00 – 2:00 pm  Afternoon Session #1 2:00 - 2:15 pm Break 2:15-3:15 pm Afternoon Session #2 3:15 – 4:15 pm Closing Speaker 4:15-4:30 Final Remarks

Find out about Carlene and her journey to Informatics!  About > Overview > Member Profile.

Registration is now open for the 2020 Conference!

Find out about one of our new members - Judy Gale originally from Altoona PA.   Go to About > Overview > Member Profile.  Welcome Judy to the ANIA Delmarva community.

Dear BANIAers, we are excited to invite you to our year-end virtual event to closeout 2019 on a positive note! This event will convene health care informatics leaders to discuss the rising challenges of Nursing Informatics in the current disruptive stage of the health care industry.  Through the panel speakers' discussion, we will better understand the roles and challenges Nursing Informaticists play in the digitally-driven health care transformation.

Please click to RSVP for Free no later than Monday 12/9, so we can arrange the virtual meeting capacity accordingly.

Event Detail as follows: 

Topic: BANIA Chapter Year-End Virtual Event - The Rising Challenges of the Nursing Informatics Field

Date: Thursday, Dec 12, 2019 6:00 pm | 1 hour | (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Location: Online via WebEx

Our chapter is hosting a webinar on 12/9 from 7-8:30 PM that will offer 1 CEU. See details in the Event section and please register.

2020 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey

HIMSS invites all nursing informatics professionals to provide feedback to complete the big picture for 2020. Your responses to the survey will be kept confidential and all data will be analyzed in aggregate only. In taking the survey, we highly recommend sharing the survey link with your colleagues and organizations.

 

The 2020 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey will capture current professional status, salary and practice trends, while identifying changes that have occurred over the years in the nursing informatics workforce. Your participation helps the healthcare industry understand the importance of nursing informatics.

Share your insight.
Survey closes November 11

We truly appreciate all you do for Nursing Informatics and are eager to compile the analysis to see the trends from 2017.

This was sent out by Trisha Pongco, CAHIMS, Program Manager, Clinical Informatics HIMSS.  Please feel free to complete for our HIMSS colleagues. 

Greetings,

 

HIMSS is conducting its’ tri-annual Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey.  We are reaching out to you as members of the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community in an effort to bolster the responses to the survey. Your leadership and contributions to Nursing Informatics is an important perspective to share.

 

This survey is important as it shows the growth of the nursing informatics profession since 2004. Many media outlets cite the survey results and individuals use it to support their growth, salary, and education development within their organization. 

 

Please support this survey:

1)      Please take the survey yourself!

2)      Share this survey on your Linked In, Facebook, or Twitter feed asking for your contacts to take action – take the survey

3)      Email the survey to your personal contacts in the industry asking them to take the survey and to share with others.

 

Share the message below with your colleagues and organizations:

 

2020 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey

HIMSS invites all nursing informatics professionals to provide feedback to complete the big picture for 2020. Your responses to the survey will be kept confidential and all data will be analyzed in aggregate only. In taking the survey, we highly recommend sharing the survey link with your colleagues and organizations.

 

The 2020 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey will capture current professional status, salary and practice trends, while identifying changes that have occurred over the years in the nursing informatics workforce. Your participation helps the healthcare industry understand the importance of nursing informatics.

Share your insight.
Survey closes November 11

We truly appreciate all you do for Nursing Informatics and are eager to compile the analysis to see the trends from 2017.

THU NOV 7th 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Come hear what's new and get involved!!

Agenda
1. Welcome
2. Review of last year's accomplishments
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Discussion of Plans for 2020
    A.  Education
    B.  Newsletter / Social Media
    C.  Elections
5. Recap

Instructions:

Dial-in number (US): (515) 606-5116
Access code: 314837#
Online meeting ID: mark_bassett_pub

It is election time!

We are taking nominations for the following offices:

• President-elect (1 year- become President next year)
• Secretary (2 year Position)

 

If you are interested, please send me an email with the nomination.  If you are nominating yourself (which is great), please include a bio and a picture (optional) which will be posted on the website/email. I have uploaded the officer duties section from the chapter manual to the library files.

 

Elections

• Nov1 – Nov 15 – call for nominations for president-elect and secretary
• Nov 20 – 30 – Voting per Survey Monkey
• Dec – first week – final business meeting of the year – will announce d/t ASAP
• January 1 – new officers 

 

Elections Policy

Any chapter member who is a full member (not student or honorary) of ANIA may be a candidate for any office of that chapter. It is strongly recommended for a candidate to be an ANIA member 1 year prior to running for chapter office. Full members of ANIA in that chapter are qualified to vote for chapter officers. Chapters will hold annual elections for chapter offices of President, President-Elect, Secretary, and Treasurer (or Secretary/Treasurer) each calendar year. In order to maintain stability, it is recommended that the positions be staggered so that the entire chapter leadership does not change in a single year.

 

 

Additionally – as an output from the meeting, there was interest shown in a social media committee, events committee, and educational committee (with CEUs).  If you are interested in helping with any of these, please let me know. Any other suggestions/comments etc. welcome J

Hi BANIAers, we would like to get together and meet virtually before 2019 ends. We would like to know your preference on two dates on December 12th or 13th 6 - 7 pm. Please click on this Doodle link to select your availability - https://lnkd.in/g8Cf9sW

Please respond no later than Tue 11/5 Thanks, BANIA Leadership Team

Hello all,

I would like to thank everyone who came to the Fall Meeting in Columbus on Friday. Thank you also to our speakers – we could not have done it without you.

 The presentations have been uploaded to the Ohio ANIA website. We received 3.6 CEUs and I am working on the certificates. I hope to mail them out within the week.

ANIA Ohio Chapter Elections

• Nov1 – Nov 15 – call for nominations for president-elect and secretary
• Nov 20 – 30 – Voting
• Dec – first week – final business meeting of the year.  More details to follow.

 

Thank you

Renee Vitullo

Ohio Chapter ANIA President

Come check us out!  And join us!

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Troppo Restaurant, Thursday Nov 7th 5:00 – 7:30 pm!!

RSVP to Adrian.miller@trinity-health.org

due by October 31st at 4pm

Spaces are limited so do not delay!

Address: 111 E Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI 48933

Phone: (517) 371-4000

We are still accepting nominations for the next 2 1/2 weeks. Don't forget to nominate yourself or a fellow member for one of the open board positions. Please send your nomination to:
aniaoftennessee@yahoo.com

Date will soon be posted for our first networking meeting the second week of November.

The SCeNIC Board enjoyed meeting ANIA chapter members at the conference in Columbia.

Registration Link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ANIAOhio

 

Please register on website and then send $10 by PayPal:

reneevit@zoominternet.net

OR

Check to :

Renee Vitullo

5604 Cider Mill Crossing

Austintown, Ohio 44515

The ANIA Midwest Board of Directors is excited to announce that nominations are being accepted for President-Elect (one position available), Treasurer (one position available), Webmaster (one position available) and Member At Large (three positions available) for ANIA Midwest Board of Directors.  The President-Elect, Treasurer, and Webmaster positions are elected positions, and the Member At Large positions are selected by the Board of Directors.  For members interested in expanding their leadership abilities, the Member At Large positions are ways to move into an ANIA Midwest Board Leadership role.  We want ANIA Midwest to continue to grow, and we want to foster leadership and informatics skills among our members.  Nominations are being accepted through October 25, 2019 for President-Elect, Treasurer, and Member at Large.  Qualifications and terms for positions are listed HERE.  Members in good standing for one year and meeting the qualifications can be nominated.  Self-nominations are encouraged; if nominating another, please ensure permission is obtained.  Please send resumes and a brief biographical sketch highlighting what strengths you would bring to the board and why you are interested in serving.   Resumes and biographical sketches can be sent to ania.midwest.region.chapter@gmail.com. 

Ohio ANIA Members - Please join us for an afternoon of networking, lunch, and speakers.

ANIA Ohio Chapter

2nd Annual Fall Meeting 2019

Friday, October 25th

11 – 3pm

 

Ohio University

6805 Bobcat Way

Dublin, OH 43016

 

Agenda and reservation available this week

 

Please save the date and we hope to see you there!

 

Thursday November 7th 7:30 pm - Please save the date (and time) so you can attend the GA ANIA Annual Meeting (via web connection).  Details to be posted shortly.  Look forward to seeing you!

Join us ​Monday August 20th at 5:30 to 6:30pm! 
The Agenda is packed for this session.  In addition to our usual chapter update, find out what's going on with the Fall Education Event (10-21-19 Updates on Reducing Documentation Burden) and an article review on the use of BPA for identifying Sepsis in SICU patients.

Contact Christine_Parsons@bayhealth.org for the Go To Meeting information and our agenda!

Join us for our Half Day Conference on Project Management on August 16! Registration is now open!

The next Chapter meeting will take place on September 7th, 2019. More details to come!

Register below!

Hi BANIAers!
Hope you have a great Summer so far!
It's official that we will have our first chapter meeting on Saturday 8.17 11:30 AM  - 2 PM.  The location is at 2248 International Blvd., Oakland, CA

You can use this link to register BANIA event now!

Our primary intention for this commencement meeting is to meet everyone in person and get to know each other.  Our chapter leadership team will introduce ourselves and present a brief highlight of our corresponding professional work in the informatics field.  In return, we will want to know you a bit to bond as a community.

There will be o'dourves and beverage served and we look forward to seeing you all! 

Please use this link to register BANIA event no later than August 12th, so we can have a headcount to make our first meeting a smooth experience!

Best Regards!
Jenny Yiu, President of BANIA Chapter
Carlye Hatwood, VP of BANIA Chapter
Cheryl Cordova, Secretary of BANIA Chapter
Tip Tilton, Treasurer of BANIA Chapter
Dan Keller, Webmaster of BANIA Chapter

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Please join us for the next Western PA ANIA Chapter meeting on August 7, 2019 at 6:00 PM.  Speaker and Webex info will provided shortly.

Location:

Panera Bread - McCandless

8800 Covenant Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15237

In memory of Jane Malapanes a dedicated woman supporting the growth and reach for others.  

The daughter of Jane Malapanes is donating the gift of ANIA membership to 5 Nursing Informatics students.
These scholarships will cover the cost of an annual student membership for the 1st five applicants. The ANIA student membership application is available here. 

Please email your completed application to aniaoftennessee@yahoo.com. Once we have five applicants we will award the scholarships.

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Honor a woman who's making a difference.

Recognize an outstanding woman you know by nominating her for the one award that celebrates her commitment to creating a world where everyone, everywhere, has access to a health and wellness ecosystem that works.

The HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards are inclusive of all women of influence in all health and healthcare fields, regardless of where they may be in their career stage. Applicants may nominate themselves or someone they know. The application period closes July 15th.

https://www.himss.org/professionaldevelopment/most-influential-women-hit-awards

Hello All Bay Area Clinical Informatics, I am excited to say we are united again!  On behalf of the BANIA chapter leadership team, I would like to welcome you to participate and use this forum for us to connect/collaborate!

ANIA San Diego Regional Chapter Event

Date:          Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Time:         5:30pm – 7:00pm

Location:    Farmer and the Seahorse
                   10996 Torreyana Road, Suite 240
                   San Diego, CA

Please join us for social networking with your peers.  Appetizers provided.

​Thanks to all of you who were able to attend our inaugural meeting on June 4th, 2019 and for making it the success it was.
Special thanks to our guest speaker, Michelle Troseth, who delivered the presentation for our educational session entitled, "Healthcare Informatics: Past, Present, & Future".
Please see the link below which can be found for future reference within our chapter library.​​

Video from Megan

Check out our Member of the month for June on the About > Chapter Overview page.  Learn about Dorothea (Thea) Winter Ph.D, RN and her research within areas of nursing informatics!