Emerging technologies are creating challenges for informatics nurses as their roles continually evolve—but the rapid pace of change is also paying the way to new leadership opportunities for those who keep pace or stay ahead of the game.
The Nursing Informatics Symposium: Harnessing Disruptive Innovation, taking place on Feb. 19, 2017 at HIMSS17, will outline strategies for success.
The symposium will address the benefits of disruptive leadership, demonstrate how to apply innovation and state-of-the-art interoperability, and glimpse the future of clinical decision-making and patient-generated data.
Here is our roundup of sessions:
Opening keynote: Disruptive leadership
This session will shine a light on how nurses can leverage innovative thinking to solve current challenges, and to better prepare for what comes next. That includes growing into a disruptive leader.
Speaker: Julee Thompson, Chief Nurse Executive at Mosaic Life Care
Time: 8:15AM - 9:15AM EST.
Innovation spotlight
Attendees will learn about the innovative solutions and apps being used today to engage patients, track devices to measure efficacy and assess the risk of readmission.
Speakers: Tanna Nelson, Business Intelligence Group, Texas Health Resources
Kimberly Krakowski, Associate CNIO, Inova Health System
Sally Okun, vice president for advocacy, policy and patient Safety, PatieintsLikeMe
Time: 9:30AM - 10:30AM EST.
Using data science to influence population health
This session will home in on tactics that nurses can apply when analyzing large data sets to influence outcomes in patient populations.
Speaker: Karen Monsen, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota
Time: 10:45AM - 11:45AM EST.
Fostering innovation in your organization
This case study examines how an organization built a physical space for staff to develop new ideas that overcome existing challenges and foster a culture of innovation among it staff.
Speaker: Karen Telstra, innovation architect of design thinking spaces and creative teams, Florida Hospital
Time: 12:45PM - 1:30PM EST.
Using innovation to advance interoperability
This session will demonstrate progress that the Center for Medical Interoperability is making to compel change, improve patient safety, care quality and outcomes, while reducing clinician burden and waste.
Speaker: Kelly Aldrich, chief clinical transformation officer, Center for Medical Interoperability
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM EST.
Using the Internet of Healthy Things to improve health and care
As the growing number of apps and medical devices are capturing and sharing data along with everyday objects, this session will concentrate on the ways that the emerging Internet of Healthy Things (IoHT) can be harnessed to bolster care delivery and improve users’ health.
Speaker: Joseph Kvedar, MD, vice president of connected health at Partners Healthcare
Time: 3:00 PM EST
The Nursing Informatics Symposium: Harnessing Disruptive Innovation is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017 at the Orange County Convention Center in Tangerine Ballroom F3.
Cost: $335.
HIMSS17 runs from Feb. 19-23, 2017 at the Orange County Convention Center.
This article is part of our ongoing coverage of HIMSS17. Visit Destination HIMSS17 for previews, reporting live from the show floor and after the conference.
