Expert Panel on Informatics and Technology

The Expert Panel on Informatics and Technology gathers health policy data and information advises and represents the Academy on issues related to: health information management, implementation of informatics and technology through EHRs and PHRs (Electronic and Personal Health Records), HIPAA, patient safety initiatives, consumer and personal health, workforce issues and training, bioterrorism and bio surveillance, evidence-based practice, clinical decision support and other areas of concern related to the use of informatics and technology in nursing education, practice and research.

Inaugural Year: 2002

Chair:
Jane M. Carrington, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAMIA
Associate Professor, College of Nursing
Dorothy M. Smith Endowed Chair
Director Florida Blue Center For Health Care Quality
Department Chair, Family, Community, Health Systems Science
University of Florida

Vice Chair:
Mari F. Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN
Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professor
University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing and Health Innovation

Board Liaison: Ching-Min Chen

Staff Liaison: Justin Cowling

Previous Chairs: Rosemary Kennedy (2020-2022), Mollie Cummins (2019-2020), Susan McBride (2019), Ellen Harper (2018-2019), Gail M. Keenan (2017-2018), Jane Englebright (2016-2017), Michelle Troseth (2015-2016), Thomas Clancy (2014-2015), Lilee Gelinas (2013-2014), Kathyrn Bowles (2012-2013), Gail Latimer (2012), Bonnie Wesorick (2011), Patricia Hinton Walker (2008-2009), Diane S. Pravikoff (2005), Kathleen Malloch (2005), Ida Androwich (2002), Virginia Saba (2002)

Summary:
The mission of this panel is to be on the cutting edge of informatics and technology in order to influence national priorities such as ‘meaningful use’ in the context of health care reform. The investment of ARRA funds in informatics and technology has increased the impact and involvement of the informatics expert panel members in national leadership, policy, practice, education and research agendas. Members of this panel sit at key policy tables at the national level and have been nominated to represent the Academy in both legislative and regulatory arenas. The panel also enhances the use and advances the mission of other expert panels where increasingly informatics and technology are relevant. Many members of this Expert Panel are connected to multiple inter-professional organizations impacting technology and informatics and bring diverse expertise back to the Academy. The panel educates Academy members and leadership about the relationship of informatics and technology to topics such as: patient safety, quality care monitoring, workforce development, HIPAA, healthcare management, implementation of informatics and technology through EHRs and PHRs (Electronic and Personal Health Records), biosurviellance and bioterrorism, consumer and personal health, clinical decision support and evidence-based practice.

Publications:

• Policy Dialogue: Public Health Preparedness and IT: Lessons from the Field (Hosted in August 2021)

  Hosted by the Informatics and Technology Expert Panel in Collaboration with the Expert Panels on Environmental and Public Health; Health Equity; and Building Health Care System Excellence, this dialogue featured a discussion on addressing global infectious disease challenges with thought leaders on health informatics, technology, and global public health. These experts summarized the lessons learned in response to COVID-19 pandemic so far and proposals to improve Health IT infrastructure and reporting so that public health and infectious disease responses can be more efficient.

• Manuscript: American Academy of Nursing on Policy Social Determinants of Health: Data Standardization in Electronic Health Records (May 2022)
• Policy Brief: Improve nurses’ well-being and joy in work: Implement true interprofessional teams and address electronic health record usability issues (November-December 2019)
• Policy Brief: Strengthen federal and local policies to advance precision health implementation and nurses’ impact on healthcare quality and safety (July-August 2018) 

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