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American Health
Information Management Association www.ahima.org
AHIMA
is the dynamic professional association that represents
more than 40,000 specialty educated health information management
professionals who work throughout the healthcare industry.
Health information management professionals serve the healthcare
industry and the public by managing, analyzing and utilizing
data vital for patient care — and making it accessible
to healthcare providers when it is needed most.
American
Medical Informatics Association www.amia.org
AMIA is the
premier association in the United States dedicated to the
development and application of medical informatics in the
support of patient care, teaching, research, and health
care administration. AMIA’s mission is “to advance
the public interest thorughcharitable, scientific, literary,
and educational activities.”
Alliance
for Nursing Informatics www.allianceni.org
A collaboration of
organizations that represent a unified voice for nursing informatics.
The Alliance represents more that 3.000 nurses and brings
together 20 distinct nursing informatics groups in the United
States. The NCNA Council of Nursing Informatics (CoNI)
is a member of this alliance.
CARING
(Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in Nursing) www.caringonline.org
CARING is a nursing informatics organization advancing the
delivery of quality healthcare through the integration of
informatics in practice, education, administration, and research
with a focus on nursing.
Center for Healthcare Information
Management www.chim.org
The mission of CHIM is to positively impact the healthcare
industry through the promotion of healthcare information technology;
promote the collective business interests of its members;
and earn recognition and respect as an HIT industry authority.
College
of Healthcare Information Management Executives
www.cio-chime.org/index.asp
The mission of CHIME is to serve the professional needs
of healthcare chief Information Officers and to advance
the strategic application of information technology in innovative
ways aimed at improving the effectiveness of healthcare delivery.
Healthcare
Information Management Systems Society www.himss.org
HIMSS is a not-for-profit organization representing information
and management systems professionals in healthcare, serving
our members, our customers, and our industry by providing
leadership, education and networking. Their vision is to
provide the highest value for lifelong learning in the areas
of health care information, technology and change.
North Carolina
Healthcare Information and Communication Alliance, Inc.
www.nchica.org/default.htm
NCHICA is a privately funded, nonprofit
organization that actively promotes the advancement and integration
of
information technology into the healthcare industry. Our members
collaborate to adopt and implement standards for securely
and efficiently collecting, maintaining, locating and appropriately
sharing healthcare information.
Resources:
American Nurses Credentialing Center
(ANCC) http://www.nursecredentialing.org/ancc/cert/eligibility/informatics.html
Certification and certification renewal, BS
or higher degree, Informatics Nurse
CiteSeer
CiteSeer, hosted by Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and
NEC Laboratories, Inc., offers a search feature for informatics
articles listed on the CiteSeer site.
HIPAA Final
Rules http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/
The United States Department of Health and Human Services
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s
website for official links to healthcare simplification
regulations and information.
Thomas-Legislative Information on the
Internet http://thomas.loc.gov/
Journals:
Advance for
Nurses www.nursing.advanceweb.com
Printed journal as well as an e-journal,
serving the metro regions of the Carolinas and Georgia.
As a regional publication serving 50,000 nurses, it provides
a variety of easy-to-read clinical and professional articles
on topics that are most important to nurses today and that
promote the nursing profession.
CIN:
Computers, Informatics, and Nursing www.cinjournal.com
Covers the application
of computer technology to contemporary nursing practice,
explaining the “how-to” and “why” at
each step of the way. From the computer novice to experienced
user, the journal offers a complete package that delivers
realistic solutions. Readers discover how to use technology
to save time and money, increase productivity, and improve
communication. CIN Plus, included in CIN three times a year,
provides more “how-to” information.
Journal
of the American Medical Informatics Association www.jamia.org
AMIA’s bimonthly journal, JAMIA, presents peer-reviewed
articles that assist physicians, informaticians, scientists,
nurses and other health care professionals develop and apply
medical informatics to patient care, teaching, research, and
health care administration. JAMIA has rapidly established
a reputation for presenting high-quality, cutting-edge information.
Each issue contains state-of-the-art reviews, discussion forums,
and invited editorials presented as brief reviews or full-length
papers. A variety of formats accommodates work at all stages,
from model formulation through definitive studies.
Online
Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI) http://eaa-knowledge.com/ojni
The OJNI is committed to enhancing nursing knowledge on nursing
informatics for nurses working in diverse settings.
National and International Meetings:
Summer
Institute in Nursing Informatics (SINI)
www.nursing.umaryland.edu/sini
Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics (WINI)
www.winiconference.net
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