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Greetings ANI Governing Directors,
ANI co-sponsored and participated in the TIGER Summit October 30th – November 1st, 2006 in Bethesda, MD. The Summit brought together leaders from the nation’s nursing practice organizations, nursing informatics specialty organizations, educational institutions, informatics/technology businesses, government agencies, and other key stakeholders to create a 3-year local and global action plan for bridging the quality chasm with information technology. The Summit, “Evidence and Informatics Transforming Nursing,” came at a time when the nation is working full-speed to realize the 10-year goal of Electronic Health Records for its citizens. This is a critical juncture for nurses, who comprise 55% of the health care workforce, number more than 3 million, and who must become more aware and involved at every level of the Informatics Revolution. The inaugural TIGER Summit offered a very unique, collaborative, and groundbreaking event, one that is critical for inspiring a vision for the future of nursing that enables nurses to use informatics in practice and education to provide safer, higher-quality patient care. The TIGER Summit has been in the planning for nearly two years as a response to the demand for healthcare transformation that was presented by the National Office of the Coordinator for Health IT in July 2004.
Outcomes of the Summit include yielding a 10-year vision and 3-year local and global action plan for transforming nursing practice and education to better prepare nurses to practice in an increasingly automated, informatics-rich, and consumer-driven health care environment. Additional outcomes include a published TIGER Summit Report including exemplars of excellence and Summit results, and guidelines for organizations to follow as they integrate informatics knowledge, skills and abilities into academic and practice settings. Please visit the TIGER website http://www.umbc.edu/tiger/summit.html
Date Created: November 8, 2006 Date Last Updated:
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