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 consumers
- 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
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News
The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) nursing informatics specialty at the University of Minnesota received accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). It is the first program of its kind in the country to receive this prestigious designation.
