Call the nurse?
The drive to appoint chief nursing information officers to US healthcare systems is stuttering; and CNIOs can end up doing a different job to their medical counterparts. Neil Versel reports.
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Clinical informatics: in the US, it’s certifiable
Neil Versel starts a short series about the advances made by US clinical information leaders by reporting on the first doctors to achieve board certification as subspecialists in clinical informatics, after a decade’s worth of lobbying.
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IT’s good to talk
Claire Read talks to Amanda Logue, a CMIO who has just seen her hospital recognised as one of the US’ ‘most wired’, but who still wants doctors and nurses to talk to each other, and to talk to patients about technology.
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Push me, pull you
Claire Read talks to the chief medical information officer and chief nursing information officer of a US healthcare provider; and finds they bring different but complimentary approaches to their roles.
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The rise of the CCIO, a US view
Dr Sean Kelly is the chief medical officer of single sign-on specialist Imprivata and an emergency physician in Boston. He offers a US perspective on the meteoric rise of the chief clinical information officer in the NHS.
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