Empower Yourself...Welcome to your future and beyond.... Working together we will build upon our "collective wisdom" to create, for tomorrow, what we can only imagine today...J. Perl, Editor
Innovative Nurse" Offers High Tech Suggestions for Nursing Students
Unlike nursing grads from early 2000, who carried charts, diagrams,
notepads and assorted equipment in their book bags, today's new
technology has lightened student's load. One nursing entrepreneur has
developed an "Innovative Nurse" mobile app to improve the studies of
today's nursing students. RWJF
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Nursing Informatics & Technology: A Blog for All Levels of Users
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iHealthBeat
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AHRQ Research about: * Telemedicine * School Health * Health Maintenance
Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.