2024 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference

Welcome to the 2024 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference!

The Nursing Knowledge Big Data Science Conference brings together nurse leaders and informaticists from public and private institutions and organizations across the United States and beyond to discuss the improvement of health and healthcare by using nursing knowledge empowered by informatics. This year, the conference will explore artificial intelligence, nursing innovations, and the social/ethical implications of using technologies for nursing care.

Along with the year-round efforts of the NKBDS Initiative’s workgroups, the conference’s mission is to generate and enable nursing insights and evidence to support individuals, families, communities, and populations in the promotion of health and the delivery of health care and to leverage informatics and data to redefine and magnify the value of nursing in all settings. Make your plans to join us June 5-7.

We invite you to also join the Planting Seeds of Innovation Colloquium, June 4, 2024.  

Location:  McNamara Alumni Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota.  Directions and parking information can be found on the McNamara website.

Thursday’s Keynote:  AI, Your Social Mirror to Your Data, Your Digital Twin is in the Data

Peter Klein
Chairman at Educated Change
University of Minnesota School of Nursing Dean’s Board of Visitors
University of Minnesota School of Nursing Initiative Ethical Use of AI in Nursing Steering Committee

Artificial Intelligence (AI) acts as a social mirror to humanity, reflecting our collective thoughts, behaviors, and tendencies. This presentation delves into this fascinating intersection of AI and human behavior. This exploration is particularly pertinent to nursing informatics, where understanding human behavior and predicting outcomes through digital interaction is paramount.

The core of the discussion hinges on how AI, especially through Large Language Models (LLMs), mirrors humanity. The extensive use of social media and digital interactions in training these AI systems has created a feedback loop where AI learns from human inputs and reflects our collective psyche back to us. This reflection is not just a mere echo but an analytical mirror that offers insights into our behaviors, preferences, and even future actions. How can we use these insights to create a better world? The presentation will introduce free, innovative tools designed to build digital twins and facilitate mindset changes among healthcare professionals, aiding in the integration of AI in their practice. It discusses methods to embrace a growth mindset, which is crucial for leveraging AI's potential in nursing and change in general.

The core result expected is a deeper understanding among nurse informaticists of how AI can be a transformative tool in healthcare, particularly in personalized patient care. The discussion will reveal how AI's predictive capabilities, harnessed through understanding individual purposes, can lead to more accurate and effective healthcare solutions. The presentation concludes by highlighting the importance of embracing new digital  technologies and mindsets in nursing informatics, ultimately leading to improved healthcare outcomes.

Peter Klein is a results-oriented CEO at Educated Change Ltd, employing a unique blend of social networking, people science, collaboration, entrepreneurship, gamification, and AI to drive purpose, influence and build communities. Lecturer at multiple universities specializing in using AI for amplifying purpose and building communities for the people that matter in your life. Peter and Educated Change have a unique personal branding approach that delivers ROI through networking, collaboration, and AI to create significant change in our world. Using his unique expertise in AI and change, people deliver on their promises.

Friday’s Keynote: Where is Healthcare’s Heartbeat in Our High-Tech Future?

Oriana Beaudet, DNP, RN, PHN
Vice President of Nursing Innovation, ANA Enterprise

What’s the differential diagnosis for healthcare’s high-tech fever? Delve into today’s dynamic healthcare landscape and identify trends creating new paths to be taken and risks to be navigated - for both nurses and society. Transformational change is possible across healthcare’s high-tech future but only if humanity is at its heart.

Objectives:

• Enhance broader clarity around trends across the healthcare landscape.
• Apply historical and current exemplars to healthcare and society.
• Identify the transformational role of informatics across healthcare and beyond.
   

Oriana Beaudet is the Vice President of Nursing Innovation for the American Nurses Association Enterprise. The ANA Enterprise includes the American Nurses Association, American Nurses Credentialing Center, and the American Nurses Foundation.  She currently sits on the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy – Expert Advisory Council for Transformation and the Governing Directors Board for the Alliance for Nursing Informatics.

Prior to ANA, Dr. Beaudet ran her own business as a strategic partner for organizations, healthcare executives, and startups.  In a previous position as the Vice President of Transformation for a national healthcare design firm, she focused on strategy and business development for national health systems around operational and business innovations; simulation modeling and technology; design of the built space, and care delivery design.