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Nursing and IT

Nurses innovate with technology that reduces burnout and improves care

Nurses are the tireless heroes of healthcare, unsung and under-resourced. They believe in the work they do and work every day to do more with less. Thankfully, new technologies and workforce strategies are emerging to help nurses better care for patients they serve and help reduce the daily burden that takes their attention away from care delivery.

In this special section, we focus on how nurses are making use of technology – AI and automation, EHR optimization, decision support, telehealth and remote monitoring – to manage the challenges of staffing shortages, avoid burnout and advance their approaches to patient care.

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How nurses can tackle administrative burdens

At HIMSS25 Denise Dauterman, Epic Clinical Systems Lead and Deborah Jacques, informatics nurse specialist, will share how they engaged nurses in implementing EHR modules that reduced redundant and non-meaningful documentation at NYU Langone Health.

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By Mike Miliard | February 17, 2025
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Clinician burnout can be reduced by virtual nursing

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By HIMSS TV | November 11, 2024
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Getting beyond nurses' fears of AI

Healthcare leaders should address the stress of AI and share roadmaps to gain buy-in from nurses, says Dr. Iman Abuzeid, CEO and cofounder of Incredible Health.

By Andrea Fox | August 13, 2024
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Microsoft's CNIO talks AI literacy for nurses

Kathleen McGrow, the tech giant’s chief nursing information officer, highlights the HIMSS innovation nursing advisory group, a framework on AI literacy for nurses, and education around AI innovation and leveraging the technology.

By HIMSS TV | May 14, 2024
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HIMSS24 aims to educate nurses on AI's ethics and uses

Whende Carroll, clinical informatics advisor, HIMSS, offers a preview of upcoming HIMSS24 sessions on ethics and AI in nursing, and discusses how AI and virtual care technology can empower patients and mitigate the effects of nursing shortages.  

By HIMSS TV | March 12, 2024
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Making nursing workload equitable with algorithms

Stesha Selsky and Meg Furukawa, nurse informaticists for the UCLA Health System, discuss how algorithms produce individual workload acuity scores using patient chart information in their HIMSS23 presentation preview.

By HIMSS TV | March 23, 2023
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Merging informatics and empathy in nursing

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