President - Jenny Boone, DNP, RN, NI-BC
Dr. Jenny Boone brings 22 years of experience as a registered nurse, with a diverse background encompassing Neonatal Intensive Care, NICU Transport, ECMO, Labor & Delivery, and Family Medicine. She has also contributed significantly to Quality & Patient Safety initiatives and currently serves as Adjunct Faculty at two universities, in addition to her role as Clinical Nurse Informaticist at St. Luke’s Health System in Boise, Idaho. Dr. Boone has spearheaded projects aimed at enhancing nursing and provider documentation for Women’s Services and led the development of a quantitative blood loss calculator within the electronic health record to support improved outcomes for laboring mothers. Her DNP project led to the implementation of a Virtual Perinatal Nurse Mentor Role that allowed for Critical Access Hospitals to have a Perinatal Nurse Mentor at their fingertips. Her ongoing work focuses on optimizing clinical workflows and technologies that affect both healthcare providers and patients. She was invited and provided a webinar presentation for AACN in April 2022, in which her topic was: Consumer Health & Health Informatics: Preparing Nurse Graduates for Embedding Technology into their Nursing Practice.
Dr. Boone is currently active in the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Networking & Education Task Force and in the TIGER Global Community through HIMSS and will be actively involved in the TIGER Global Community - Education and Professional Development Workgroup.
Outside of her professional responsibilities, Dr. Boone enjoys spending time with her family, which includes her four sons and their families, her daughter, husband, and mini-Australian shepherds. She is committed to sharing her experiences as a mother of children with bleeding disorders, addressing the challenges of balancing quality of life with health risks. Dr. Boone is dedicated to inspiring and educating others about the impact of technology in healthcare and advocates for leveraging personal insights to enhance patient care.
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Vice President - Shelly Bewick, BSN, RN
Shelly is an accomplished Nurse Informaticist with over 15 years of experience in the hospital setting. She enjoys bridging the gap between clinical operation and IT and have led/participated in the implementation of both Meditech and Epic electronic health records. Shelly's passion is problem solving to create standard practice that will enhance patient outcomes, clinical practice and efficiency.
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Secretary/Treasurer - Debi Schwartz, BSN, RN, NI-BC
Debi has been a RN since 1991 and in informatics since 2012. The majority of her career was bedside in a 600+ bed hospital as a general Float Nurse. Debi's experience working in units ranging from Gen Med/Surg, Nephrology, Cardiac, ED, Peds, Peds Onc, and PeriOp provided particular insight and drive to participate in patient throughput workgroups - a taste of informatics before she even knew what it was and she was hooked!
Debi moved to informatics as the hospital transitioned then moved into Maintenance & Optimization. For a few years, she supported Care Connect go-lives then moved to another organization where she supported both the host organization and the Care Connect go-lives. She currently provides informatics services at Snoqualmie Valley Hospital [CAH] via ScaledHealth. Providing remote support from Spokane, WA with the occasional visit to the beautiful Cascades near Seattle has been a great middle ground for all the things she loves about Informatics!
Debi is fascinated by what people don't say when describing a challenge: the gaps are where the real source of problems often lie. Collecting & connecting the threads of multiple workflows that need to be seen as a whole to find the solution are like weaving a tapestry. Like any other crafter or cosplayer or general nerd, she loves to hear & share experiences, and that includes with fellow Informaticists!
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Social Media Lead - Holly Bullion, DNP, MPH, ARNP, FNP-C, NI-BC, CPHQ, CNE
Holly has 15 years of nursing experience with a primary focus in sexual and reproductive health. She has spent the past 7 years working as a clinical operations and nursing informatics leader with expertise in public health, sexual health, telehealth, and primary care in rapidly scaling organizations. Holly has also taught various guest lectures on human sexuality, informatics, and serves as adjunct nursing faculty. She is especially focused on data modernization, interoperability, and clinical decision support to improve health data equity and health care outcomes in underserved populations.
Her 2024 DNP/MPH dual degree capstone project at Johns Hopkins University, "Sexual orientation, gender identity, and anatomy inventory collection for improved health outcomes", received the “Biggest Impact for Health Equity” Scholars Day poster award. She also presented the project poster at the APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo. Holly looks forward to further pursuing this research topic further at Texas Woman's University's PhD Nursing program beginning Fall 2025.
Holly has experience in media relations as a clinician subject matter expert for multiple articles focusing on sex and dating during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is excited to serve as the new social media lead for the ANIA Northwest Chapter and broadening our social media footprint!
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