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
News
The 10th annual Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science (NKBDS) Conference brought national experts to Minneapolis to discuss the future of nursing informatics and its alignment with the NKBDS strategic plan.
A new book series examines digital health and its opportunities for nursing and patient health. Nursing
$7.9 million grant will advance health equity by training students to use data to improve public health