Applying the Nursing Ecosystem Concept to Developing Strategic Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership for Valued Patient Care.

Research confirms entrepreneurial leadership encourages entrepreneurial behaviour and an entrepreneurial culture supports the development of 'entrepreneurial mindset'. Nurses implementing and optimizing information technology need to work with numerous stakeholders that collectively make up their ecosystem. Indeed, nurses with an entrepreneurial mindset increase their ability to sense opportunities and mobilize the resources and knowledge required to seek' informatics' opportunities to deliver patient centred care across the whole ecosystem.

Together into the future...Pharmacogenomics and documentation.

New partnerships target optimal care quality and outcomes.

Individualizing cancer care with interoperable information systems.

There are three levels of interoperable informatics that are co-occurring in the United States to link data to provide more comprehensive care to patients. One is the National Health Information Network (NHIN) that is establishing use case scenarios and standards for interoperability for patients with multiple conditions. The second is the National Cancer Institute's project that supports the enterprise work called the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG) in linking clinical care with bioinformatics, tissue repositories, and imaging for patients with cancer.

Guideposts to the future--an agenda for nursing informatics.

As new directions and priorities emerge in health care, nursing informatics leaders must prepare to guide the profession appropriately. To use an analogy, where a road bends or changes directions, guideposts indicate how drivers can stay on course. The AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group (NIWG) produced this white paper as the product of a meeting convened: 1) to describe anticipated nationwide changes in demographics, health care quality, and health care informatics; 2) to assess the potential impact of genomic medicine and of new threats to society; 3) to align AMIA NIWG resources with emerging priorities; and 4) to identify guideposts in the form of an agenda to keep the NIWG on course in light of new opportunities.

Training the next generation of informaticians: the impact of "BISTI" and bioinformatics--a report from the American College of Medical Informatics.

In 2002-2003, the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) undertook a study of the future of informatics training. This project capitalized on the rapidly expanding interest in the role of computation in basic biological research, well characterized in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI) report. The defining activity of the project was the three-day 2002 Annual Symposium of the College.