Informatics nurses are getting more commonplace – even if their leadership isn’t.
A new report on informatics nurses released at HIMSS 2015 this week showed that these nurses, who mix traditional skills with computer science and IT, are taking a bigger role in healthcare technology.
Nearly 70 percent of informatics nurses are helping with medical device integration. Plus, half of the survey respondents said informatics nurses have a role with “smart devices.”
Respondents were from the HIMSS database and had director titles or higher or were informatics nurses or clinicians, among others, according to the survey.
But there’s still a way to go. Only 20 percent of respondents work for an organization that employs a chief nursing information officer. That’s a tiny number no matter how you slice it – but particularly when considering the CNIO position was seen as up and coming back in 2012.
Below is a graphic that give a picture of the modern informatics nurse, based on this week’s HIMSS report.
