Data Science and Clinical Analytics
Co-leaders
Steven G. Johnson, PhD, FAMIA
Lisiane Pruinelli, PhD, MS, RN, FAMIA (outgoing)
Ann Wieben, PhD, MS, BSN, RN, NI-BC (incoming)
Purpose
To apply data science and clinical analytic methods, incorporating validated information models derived from diverse sources of health care data, to address nurse-sensitive clinical research questions that have the potential to inform and educate nursing and multidisciplinary approaches for better patient care and outcomes.
Determinants of Health
Leader
Kathy Bobay, PhD, RN, ACHIP, FAAN
Purpose
To support the standardized collection of determinants of health data into sharable, comparable, and actionable nursing practice to improve the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
Digital Health and Innovation
Co-leaders
Whende M. Carroll, MSN, RN, NI-BC, FHIMSS (outgoing)
Christie Martin, PhD, MPH, RN-BC, LHIT-HP (outgoing)
Kelly Resco-Summes, DNP, MAdm, RN (incoming)
Kecia Hayslett, CHWI, HTC, RN (incoming)
Purpose
Identify and support activities and resources to address unmet needs and create opportunities in digital health and innovation.
Knowledge Modeling and Encoding
Co-leaders
Tess Settergren, MHA, MA, RN, NI-BC
Stephanie Hartleben, MSN, MHA, RN, NI-BC
Kay Lytle, DNP, RN, NI-BC, NEA-BC, CPHIMS, ACHIP, FHIMSS, FAMIA
Purpose
- Derive nursing knowledge models from EHR documentation and "best evidence",
- Map the core, essential concepts, and values to data standards for interoperability, documenting heuristics,
- Submit requests for new LOINC® terms and SNOMED CT® concepts where gaps exist, and
- Disseminate the deliverables for replicability.
Learning Collaborative for Digital Health
Co-leaders
Mary Jane Rivard DNP, RN, NI-BC
Nancy M Husson DNP, RN, CHSE
Purpose
The Learning Collaborative for Digital Health's purpose is to engage nurse educators and practice partners with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) to educate nurses at all levels of participation and to lead the digital evolution, improving healthcare and health globally.
Nursing Value
Co-leaders
Greg Clancy, DNP, RN
Liz Swanson, PhD, RN
Purpose:
To examine and measure the value of nursing within the context of care and supporting the tenets of health equity. Therefore, the intent is to maximize the development and dissemination of measurable and comparable nursing terms critical to the context of care and the value of nursing.
Policy and Advocacy
Leaders
Dana Bensinger, DNP, RN, NI-BC
Susan Alexander, DNP, RN
Purpose
Amplify and facilitate the implementation of workgroup products and deliverables for the improvement of health and health care by using nursing knowledge, empowered by informatics. Advocacy focus: Unique Nurse Identifier, Transforming Documentation, CONCERN.
Transforming Documentation
Co-leaders
David Boyd, DNP, RN, CNS, NI-BC, CPHIMS
Bonnie Adrian, PhD, NI-BC
Purpose
Explore ways to decrease the documentation burden and serve up information in the electronic health record at the right time in the workflow to support evidence-based and personalized care.
Elevate purpose-driven, role-based, patient-centric, evidence informed documentation transformation to capture nurse observations and interventions and drive purposeful secondary-use and precision nursing. Transformation supports enhanced data utilization to drive and measure improvement in patient outcomes and illuminate nursing's value and contribution in healthcare.