Health IT

Health Information Technology enables healthcare providers to capture standardized data and use it to inform patient care and communicate across a range of clinical settings. Health IT also supports one of the strongest tenets of nursing — educating the patient and family.

ANA has launched and participated in several Health IT initiatives:

• Nominating nurse leaders to federal Health IT committees and workgroups
• Developing position statements on Health IT initiatives, policy, and standards
• Participating in Health IT alliances, including the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
• Developing educational products that support the consumer eHealth campaign of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
• Coordinating expert panel summit meetings to establish quality measurement models for inclusion in electronic health records