WINI (Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics) is a nursing informatics continuing education course that travels around the country to provide affordable, in-depth nursing informatics education. Approved by the Maryland Nurses Association, an approved provider of nursing continuing education, WINI focuses on basic competencies in nursing informatics. WINI and Informatics Insights are developed and presented by managing members, Carol J. Bickford, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, and Kathleen Smith, MScEd,...

NI 2012 Theme: Advancing Global Health through Informatics Globalization and increasingly open flows of information are facilitating access to isolated areas where health needs are extreme - creating new channels and new opportunities for health and healthcare. Nurses, midwives, community health workers, and other professionals around the globe are contributing in significant ways, using informatics to impact care improvement, enhance professional practice, influence policy, and conduct resea...

The UIC College of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, focuses its 10x10 course on examining how health information technology (HIT) can be used to support...and inhibit...patient safety. It was the 1999 IOM report "To Err is Human" followed by the 2001 report "Crossing the Quality Chasm" that brought patient safety to the national forefront and identified HIT as a critical means to achieve this goal. This 10x10 course will examine the informati...

This offering is tailored to emergency physicians and other emergency personnel and its content is geared to Emergency Medicine. It culminates in an in-person session at the 2012 Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians. The American College of Emergency Physicians, AMIA, and Oregon Health & Science University are pleased to offer this special version of the 10x10 course aimed at emergency physicians. This is the fifth annual offering of this special version of th...

•POCT informatics requirements for the clinical lab •Importance of getting POCT data into the HER •Best practices for POCT data management •Data transfer in an age of “cloud” computing •Ensuring that displayed lab data contributes to clinical decision making and patient safety

AGENDA as of 4/18/2012, subject to revisions FRIDAY (6.5 hours) Date/Time Topic 10:00am – 11:00am (1 hour) Parenteral Nutrition 11:00am – 11:15am BREAK 11:15am – 12:45pm (1.5 hour) Multiple Myeloma (Lunch provided) 12:45pm – 1:00pm BREAK 1:00pm – 2:00pm (1 hour) TRACK A: Stroke prevention for afib TRACK B: Neonatology...

Target Audience This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of clinicians involved in or with an interest in utilizing single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT MPI or MPI). Statement of Need/Program Overview In order to accurately diagnose and/or characterize CAD in patients via SPECT MPI, clinicians must have extensive expertise in performing and interpreting the test. This includes knowledge of testing protocols, as well as selecti...

Overview New and complex therapeutic interventions bring potential benefits, as well as new, often unanticipated, complications. As we offer our most vulnerable patients the best, most contemporary care possible, we need to keep in mind that many pharmacologic therapies have not been thoroughly examined in newborns and the risk-benefit ratios are not well established. For example, when influenza outbreaks occur, what new treatments should we consider to protect the susceptible newborn? Tre...