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Change Will Do You Good: How to Get RNs to Buy-in to New Technology

May 29, 2012 By Jennifer Thew, RN, MSJ Leave a Comment

I can't stand Facebook's new timeline design. When I say can't stand, I actually mean despise. When I say despise, I actually mean I hate the thing. OK, it took me a while to say how I really feel, but I'm a Midwesterner so I've been trained to be polite. When they've made ...

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Filed Under: Health care, Healthcare IT, Nursing Tagged With: change, EMR, go live, nurse, nursing, technology

Game On! Gamification Tries to Engage Healthcare Providers, Patients

May 15, 2012 By Jennifer Thew, RN, MSJ Leave a Comment

Game On! Gamification Tries to Engage Healthcare Providers, Patients

The way to a nurse's heart is through chocolate. Don't know what I'm talking about? Next Halloween drop your excess bags of candy off at the nearest nurses' station and see what happens. You'll probably be reminded of the Discovery Channel's Shark Week. And we're not particular. ...

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Filed Under: Health care, mHealth, Nursing Tagged With: games, gamification, nurse, RN, technology

National Nurses Week: Making Meaningful Use of Meaningful Use

May 8, 2012 By Health Standards Leave a Comment

During a recent IM chat with HL7 Standards blogger and registered nurse Jennifer Thew, I sarcastically asked, “Why do nurses get a full week in their honor? Seems like overkill to me.” While I would love to share with you her reply, I’d rather not offend those who try to avoid ...

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Filed Under: Health care, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Nursing Tagged With: CNIO, health IT, national nurses week, nurse, RN

Hail to The Chief: The Emerging Role of the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer

April 3, 2012 By Jennifer Thew, RN, MSJ 4 Comments

"Chicago has two seasons--winter and construction." It's an old joke, but it holds a grain of truth. Here in the Chicago-area we're subject to frigid temperatures made worse by the "wind chill" and perpetual traffic snarls made worse by orange cones and backhoes. When you're ...

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Filed Under: EHR, EMR, Health care, Healthcare IT, Nursing Tagged With: CNIO, health IT, healthcare, nurse, nursing, RN

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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