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www.HealthcareITNews.com September 2007 ■ Healthcare IT News 35 ANI: A Unified Voice for Nurses in the Application of Healthcare Technology T he Alliance for Nursing Informatics provides the structure and synergy needed to support the efforts of nursing informatics professionals, with nursing informaticists having increasingly vital roles in designing and implementing systems that enhance the safety and efficiency of patient care. Founded in 2004 with support from AMIA and HIMSS, ANI is a collaboration of organizations that together represent a unified voice for nursing informatics. Today, ANI has grown to include 25 member organizations and represents more than 3,000 nurses, bringing together distinct nursing informatics groups in the United States that function separately at local, regional, national and international levels. ANI serves a single point of connection between nursing informatics individuals and groups and the broader community of 2.9 million nurses. New members in 2007 include the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses, the Association of Women’s Health Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses, Cerner Nursing Advisory Board, MEDITECH Nurse Informatics program, NANDA International and SNOMED CT Nursing Working Group. Currently, ANI is embarking on further development of a united voice for nursing informatics by providing responses to national initiatives. These include contributing comments on the American Nurses Association’s revised Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards. This document expands upon earlier work, building upon historical knowledge and including new, state- of-the-science material for the specialty. A response was also submitted on the formation of the Google Health Advisory Committee; in the formation of the council, nursing representation was not addressed. ANI feedback addressed the importance of including nursing representation and the consideration of healthcare consumers and providers within the international community. In addition, the U.S. Department of Labor is updating occupations currently active in nursing. ANI has identified experts to define the tasks, abilities, knowledge and work activities of the nurse informaticist. In the upcoming weeks, ANI will submit a response on the American Health Information Community successor. This successor will bring together both public and private, not-for-profit and for-profit entities that represent all health community sectors. These national responses are just one of the examples of how ANI, as a successful collaboration, provides a national mechanism for transforming care and developing resources, guidelines and standards for nursing informatics practice, education, scope of practice, research, certification, public policy, terminology, best practice guidelines, mentoring and advocacy. For more information on ANI, visit www.allianceni.org. ■ VIRTUAL CONFERENCE [continued from page 31] access to today’s top healthcare IT tools and solutions, as well as the opportunity to speak, using instant messenger, with exhibitors. The virtual lounge allows users to interact via chat rooms and instant messenger. Attendees easily connect with industry colleagues who share professional interests and expertise through a profile matching tool. Registration for the exhibit hall and networking lounge, as well as keynote sessions, is free; early-bird registration for the educational program is $85 for HIMSS’ members and $110 for nonmembers. After Oct. 6, registration is $175 for HIMSS members and $225 for nonmembers. At the close of the conference, all Virtual Conference education sessions and keynote addresses are available to paid registrants on demand for 90 days. Details on HIMSS’ Virtual Conference & Expo will be featured in the next issue of the HIMSS Insider and are available at www.himssvirtual.org. ■ e ● Connect: SPOTWAVE 0907 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.allianceni.org http://www.spotwave.com http://www.spotwave.com http://www.himssvirtual.org http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=7727

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Healthcare IT News - September 2007

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