Informatics Clinical Resource Area - Additional Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality National Resource Center for Health Information Technology
AHRQ's initiative on health information technology (health IT) is a key element to the nation's 10-year strategy to bring health care into the 21st century by advancing the use of information technology. In addition to providing technical assistance, the National Resource Center shares new knowledge and findings that have the potential to transform everyday clinical practice. AHRQ's National Resource Center is committed to advancing our national goal of modernizing health care through the best and most effective use of IT.

American Medical Informatics Association
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.

American Nursing Informatics Association(ANIA)
ANIA is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the field of nursing informatics and offering its members resources that enrich their roles in the field of Nursing Informatics.

CARING
CARING is a nursing informatics organization advancing the delivery of quality healthcare through the integration of informatics in practice, education, administration, and research.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

National Cancer Institute Biomedical Informatics Grid
The National Cancer Institute ( NCI ) has launched the caBIG™ (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid™) initiative to accelerate research discoveries and improve patient outcomes by linking researchers, physicians, and patients throughout the cancer community. caBIG™ serves as the cornerstone of NCI 's biomedical informatics efforts to transform cancer research into a more collaborative, efficient, and effective endeavor.

Nursing Language in Nursing Knowledge Systems
NLINKS is a dynamic, interactive, and evolving website that depends upon you, its members, to contribute to its research, submit ideas for its enhancement, and fund its maintenance.

The TIGER Initiative
The Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER) Initiative aims to enable practicing nurses and nursing students to fully engage in the unfolding digital electronic era in healthcare.  The purpose of the initiative is to identify information/knowledge management best practices and effective technology capabilities for nurses.  TIGER's goal is to create and disseminate action plans that can be duplicated within nursing and other multidisciplinary healthcare training and workplace settings.