Announcements

Hi Everyone,
I am cancelling Monday's meeting 10/19.  Talk to everyone in November.  Hope everyone is safe and well.​

Join Us for Social Hour on October 15th. Click here to RSVP.

Please join us on November 2, 2020 at 12 noon Central/1pm Eastern time for the ANIA Midwest Fall Education Webinar Improving Care Outcomes: Start with Standardized Nursing Knowledge Information Models.  Mari Akre, Senior Population Health Strategy Executive at Cerner, and Meg Furukawa, Nurse Informaticist and University of California Los Angeles Health (UCLA), will help attendees understand Nursing knowledge-based models (NKIMs) and their importance to nursing informatics.  The session will describe the application-based conceptual work of the the virtual advanced practice nursing informatics workgroup from the Nursing Knowledge:  Big Data Science Initiative.  Registration is at the ANIA Midwest Event page.  We hope to have you attend.

Please see Chapter Discussions for Webex and Agenda Information

This notice serves as the official call for nominations for the following positions: President Elect Secretary Treasurer Education Coordinator Any chapter member who is a full member (not student or honorary) of ANIA may be a candidate.

The term of office begins January 1, 2021. The NY Tri-State ANIA Board oversees the control and administers the affairs of the chapter to support the mission of advancing nursing informatics through education, research, and practice in all roles and settings. Information on applying can be found on our chapter ANIA Connect Discussion Board.

The ANIA NY Tristate would like you to invite you to attend the second session of the Fall series. The Role of Nursing Informatics in Onboarding Optimization is being held via Zoom on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. Click on the registration link to sign up.

Take the opportunity of the bundle package and purchase both October and November session for $15.00

As part of our ongoing support for the community, we have chosen to partner with Nurses House. Nurses House is a national organization dedicated to helping Registered Nurses in need. Nurses House offers assistance with housing and medical expenses to RN's who are seriously ill, injured, disabled, or facing other dire circumstances. Please donate by going to the website www.nurseshouse.org and selecting the NY TriState Chapter fundraiser on the bottom of the page or by selecting https://www.giveffect.com/campaigns/15590-ny-tristate-chapter-of-ania-fundraiser

Please submit your nominations for Treasurer and Communications Chair to: aniaoftennessee@yahoo.com

ANIA Linkedin Page

The ANIA NY Tristate would like you to save the dates!

We will be hosting three virtual education sessions this year. 

 
We will be sending an email out with instructions on how to register in the near future.

As part of our ongoing support for the community, we have chosen to partner with Nurses House. Nurses House is a national organization dedicated to helping Registered Nurses in need. Nurses House offers assistance with housing and medical expenses to RN's who are seriously ill, injured, disabled, or facing other dire circumstances. Please donate by going to the website www.nurseshouse.org and selecting the NY TriState Chapter fundraiser on the bottom of the page or by selecting https://www.giveffect.com/campaigns/15590-ny-tristate-chapter-of-ania-fundraiser

The Ohio ANIA newsletter has been uploaded to the files area.

Help your informatics peers learn more about you by updating your ANIA profile.  Click the link to learn how!

Dear BANIAns, we hope you are all well and safe during this unprecedented pandemic!  While we are all adapting and coping with the new normal, Nursing Informaticists are busier than ever-expanding E.H.R capabilities to address COVID and expand the reach of Telemedicine to patients.

This summer, we feature Dr. Dan Weberg, Head of Clinical Innovation at TrustedHealth.  They offer a staffing platform for the healthcare industry.  Dan drives product strategy and works to change the conversation around innovation in the healthcare workforce. He is an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation, and human-centered patient design.  He will talk about creating cultures of high performance.  His clinical experience is in emergency departments and acute in-patient hospital settings, and he helped found the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.

We are pleased to partner once again with the San Diego Chapter of ANIA.  Through them, we are able to award for this event one CEU toward your biannual nursing license renewal certification.

This event is FREE to ANIA members and has a nominal charge of $5 for non-members.

To continue to observe social distancing, we will host this event online. A complete online webinar link and information is posted on our BANIA event page (see the link below).  Registration remains open until Friday, September 11^th.

CLICK HERE to Register TODAY for this rare professional growth opportunity!

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing CEP #16941 for one contact hour.

Annual (Virtual) Conference 2020 - 3 CEs! 
September 25th
Speakers:
> Dr. Don Simborg - Founder of HL7
"Brief History and Future of Informatics"
> Cindy Drake - Program Manager Sharp Chula Vista 
"Implementing Electronic Culture Follow-up in the Emergency Department"

Registration here on San Diego ANIA page on July 10th

Save the Date: November 11th Chapter Meeting with additional "conference" like educational opportunities!!

Hello everyone
Thank you to everyone who attended the educational session on June 25th.  Attached is the link to the recording.  The meeting minutes have been uploaded to the library files.

Welcome everyone! We are so excited to finally have our website up and running! The main goal is for anyone interested in nursing informatics to have a safe place to learn, ask questions, make friendships, and grow. We encourage posting questions on the discussion board, and there will be a zero tolerance policy for anything but kindness. Thank you!

Chapter Educational Meeting 

How we’ve adapted to COVID-19; how COVID-19 changed how we do business 

Presented by Barb Bungard, Jill Evans, Mary Shook, and Mike O’Malley 

Thursday, June 25^th @ 4:00

We hope you can join - please see the chapter event for connection information.

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.

SAVE THE DATE:  ANIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE
August 20 - 22, 2020
The National ANIA Conference scheduled for May 7-9, 2020 has been moved to August 20-22, 2020 due to COVID-19.  The Conference is now Virtual!  More information will be available soon. Stay tuned!​

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

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

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.

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