The Center for Nursing Informatics leads the discovery, application, and cutting edge thinking for nursing and health informatics scholarship to improve the health of individuals and communities.
About our Center
Our vision
Improving the health of individuals and communities through nursing informatics
Our areas of excellence
The Center for Nursing Informatics provides a scholarly home within the University of Minnesota for:
- Nursing and Interprofessional informatics research teams
- Networking and scholarship opportunities for professional, undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate nursing informaticians
- Engagement with local, national, and international informatics partners
- Applying nursing and health informatics knowledge to improve health and health care
Overarching strategic goals
- Lead cutting edge research through discovery and application of informatics research methods
- Provide partnerships for testing new informatics’ products
- Develop and use electronic information systems and other health information technologies (i.e. serious gaming, simulation software, GIS) to support clinicians and health consumersÂ
- Provide nursing informatics professional development offerings
- Ensure academic offerings that are state of the science
- Foster collaboration in nursing and health informatics through engagement of community and international partnerships
News
$7.9 million grant will advance health equity by training students to use data to improve public health
The University of Minnesota is leading a first-of-its-kind partnership to help underrepresented students and professional trainees harness the power of public health data to develop disease-prevention and well-being improvement initiatives in their communities
Professor Karen A. Monsen, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FNAP, FAAN, has been named the 2021 recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award, recognizing an individual’s distinguished career and significant impact on the care of patients and the discipline of nursing.