Nursing Informatics: A Health Informatics, Interprofessional and Global Perspective

This new edition of the classic textbook on health informatics provides readers in healthcare practice and educational settings with an unparalleled depth of information on using informatics methods and tools. However, this new text speaks to nurses and ― in a departure from earlier editions of this title ― to all health professionals in direct patient care, regardless of their specialty, extending its usefulness as a textbook. This includes physicians, therapists, pharmacists, dieticians and many others. In recognition of the evolving digital environments in all healthcare settings and of interprofessional teams, the book is designed for a wide spectrum of healthcare professions including quality officers, health information managers, administrators and executives, as well as health information technology professionals such as engineers and computer scientists in health care. The book is of special interest to those who bridge the technical and caring domain, particularly nurse and medical informaticians and other informaticians working in the health sciences.

Nursing Informatics: An Interprofessional and Global Perspective contains real-life case studies and other didactic features to illustrate the theories and principles discussed, making it an ideal resource for use within health and nursing informatics curricula at both undergraduate and graduate level, as well as for workforce development. It honors the format established by the previous editions by including a content array and questions to guide the reader. Readers are invited to look out of the box through a dedicated global perspective covering health informatics applications in different regions, countries and continents. 

Dr. Ursula Hübner, is a full professor of medical and health informatics and quantitative methods at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany. She is head of the Health Informatics Research Group and serves as an academic dean for digitalisation and the promotion of young scientists at her university. Ursula Hübner is Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association. In 2021, she received the Most Influential Women in Health IT Award of the Health Information Management Systems Society. Dr. Hübner had worked in the computer industry for 10 years and at the University Hospital in Düsseldorf Germany after she had received her PhD from Düsseldorf University Germany in brain imaging studies. 

Dr. Gabriela Mustata Wilson is a full professor at The University of Texas at Arlington and the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics co-Director. She is an internationally recognized healthinformatics expert with a passion for harnessing the power of research and translate it into community action. For the past twenty years, she has educated and trained learners in various interprofessional settings, conducted research in industry and academia and led partnerships across industry, academic institutions, and the community. Dr. Wilson has demonstrated her active support to the Health Informatics community by serving in numerous leadership positions within the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). She is the co-chair of the HIMSS Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) International Initiative, a global initiative fostering community development and workforce development using an interprofessional approach. Dr. Wilson is a Fellow Member of HIMSS bestowed in recognition of service, professional participation, job experience, publications, and presentations. She is also a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a distinction given to individuals who demonstrate a high degree of innovation through US patents that have brought real impact on the welfare of society.

Toria Shaw Morawski serves as the Senior Manager of Professional Development, leading the global TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) interprofessional initiative and community at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). She has two decades of experience working in benefit of the non-profit sector, with 12 years dedicated to working in countries throughout Africa, the Caribbean and Europe focused on global health and international development initiatives funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In 2012, Toria obtained her MSW from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Jane Addams College of Social Work with a mental health concentration.

Dr Ball is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), she has served on the Board of Healthon the Net (HON) in Geneva, Switzerland, was a founder of  the now TIGER HIMSS Initiative. She was elected to membership of the IBM Industry Academy. She received the Morris F. Collen Lifetime Achievement Award from ACMI/AMIA and the Award of Excellence, which is the  International Medical Informatics Association lifetime achievement award. Dr Ball was recognized by HIMSS as one of the Most Influential Women in Health IT, and also named as one of the Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT by Health Data Management. In 2021 she was named  the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering at the Univerdity of Texas at Arlington.