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Nancy Staggers, PhD, RN, FAAN Nancy is also co-author of our "Crucial Conversations about Optimal Design" Column

Nancy Staggers Nancy Staggers is a national expert in usability and clinical informatics. Her research centers on the usability of clinical applications and she conducted studies on the topic over the last 15 years. She led successful, enterprise installations of interdisciplinary clinical information systems projects across the phases of requirements definition, vendor selection, deployment and evaluation in Department of Defense as well as other health systems. Her executive positions include Associate CIO, Health Sciences Center, University of Utah; Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.) and Director for Corporate Informatics in DOD. She led national informatics efforts such as the Scope and Practice of Nursing Informatics for the U.S. and a national whitepaper for the HIMSS Usability Taskforce. She is currently Professor, Informatics in the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland.

Ida M. Androwich, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN Ida is a well known nursing informatics pioneer!

Ida Androwich Ida Androwich is a Professor of Nursing (and Business) at Loyola University Chicago and teaches graduate courses in Health Care Informatics, Systems, Outcomes Performance Management and Population-based Infection Control. In 2008, she was named Loyola's Graduate Faculty Member of the Year. She received a BSN (Magna cum Laude) from Loyola University Chicago, a MS in Public Health Nursing and a PhD in Public Health (Health Resource Management) from the University of Illinois.

Dr. Androwich has published and presented nationally and internationally in the area of Health Care Informatics. She has had funded research related to national efforts to standardize health care vocabularies, four funded Advanced Education in Nursing grants from HRSA, and serves or has served in elected/appointed national leadership roles including the ANA's NIDSEC Committee, the AMIA-NIWG Leadership Group (Member-at-Large and Nominating Chair), AONE Technology Task Force, AONE representative to TIGER, the Vanderbilt Terminology Summit Steering Committee, member of the Advisory Board for Zynx Care and the National Alliance of Health Information Technology (NAHIT) Board, NQF e-Measure Panel, and was Co-Chair of Walmart's Consumer Awareness of HIT Committee. She has consulted in informatics, terminology, and evaluation on federal and foundation grants. She is a member of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Workforce and Technology Commission and was founding Co-Chair of the Expert Panel in NI. She is currently on the Board of Directors of Appalachian Regional Health Systems (ARH) in Kentucky and West Virginia, where she is chair of the Care and Quality Committee. She has served as chair or member of numerous masters and PhD Committees, many for students researching informatics, data mining, and quality measurement. She was named the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leader of 2009 and in 2010 was awarded the Rutgers University - 13th Annual Award for Advancement in Technology in Healthcare and was recently joined the Board of Directors of the Online Journal for the Nursing Informatics..

Kathryn H. Bowles PhD, RN, FAAN Kathryn is also writes our "Achieving Meaningful Use in Research with Information Technology " Column!

Kathryn H. BowlesDr. Kathy Bowles, PhD, RN, FAAN holds a BSN from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, an MSN from Villanova, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her Associate Professor position at the Penn School of Nursing, she is the Beatrice Renfield Visiting Scholar for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, faculty lead for implementation of the Eclipsys Clinical Information System in the curriculum and Director of the Health Informatics Minor. Dr. Bowles leads a program of research in the use of information technology to improve healthcare for older adults and support healthcare provider's decision-making regarding hospital discharge referrals. She recently completed an NIH funded clinical trial on telehealth monitoring with heart failure patients in home care and is currently leading a multi-site NINR funded study developing and testing decision support for discharge planning and post acute referral decision making. Other research areas include telehealth technology, the Omaha System standardized nursing language, quality of life among frail elders, and the use of large databases in home care to support clinical decision-making.

Dr. Bowles has been recognized for her research achievements in decision science, telehealth, and the Omaha System. To honor her research achievements, she is the first recipient of the 2011 Omaha System Research Award. She also received the Distinguished Alumni Award in Natural Science from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and the Leadership in Nursing Research Medallion from the Villanova University School of Nursing Alumni Society. In recognition of her work in telehealth she received the Lillian Sholtis Brunner Award for Innovative Practice in Nursing, awarded by the University of Pennsylvania Society of the Alumni.

Most recently, Dr. Bowles was invited to serve on the National Quality Forum Care Coordination Steering Committee and to consult with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on its initiative to identify the key data elements essential to safe transitions. She has served on CMS' Technical Expert Panel on the development of the CARE tool. She is a member of the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Care Coordination Committee commissioned by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology to identify the standards for the electronic patient record. She was an invited expert consultant for the Ministry of Health in Singapore on transitional care, gerontology, information science, and telehealth. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and a member of American Medical Informatics Association, American Nurses Association (ANA), and Sigma Theta Tau.

Denise Hammel-Jones, RN-BC, MSN, CLSSBB Denise is also co-author for our "Crucial Conversations about Optimal Design" Column!

Denise Hammel-Jones Ms. Jones currently works for Greencastle Associates Consulting as a Clinical Management Consultant on various healthcare technology projects. Prior to Ms. Jones career in consulting, she worked as a clinical applications and project manager for large healthcare organizations within the Philadelphia area. The experience with working on numerous Computerized Provider Order Management projects has positioned Ms. Jones to provide clinical expertise and guidance for the Computerized Provider Order Management Project at Atlantic Health, located in Northern New Jersey.

A nurse for over 17 years, Ms. Jones began her career in Critical Care nursing at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. While continuing her nursing practice in critical care, Ms. Jones held an adjunct faculty position at LaSalle University. Ms. Jones began her transition into Informatics while working in Disease Management in the late 1990's. Having experience in CPOE, EMR, Practice Management, eMAR, clinical documentation implementations as well as Nursing Minimum Data Sets and Outcome Measures , Ms. Jones is an experienced Informatics professional

Ms. Jones holds a BSN from Thomas Jefferson University and a MSN from LaSalle University. Since completing her Master's degree; Ms. Jones has obtained certification in Nursing Informatics, Lean Six Sigma, and Six Sigma Greenbelt. Ms. Jones is active is several professional organizations and is past-president of the Kappa Delta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau.

Jack Yensen, PhD - Chief Senior Editor Jack is in Charge of the Editorial Team

Jack YensenJack Yensen has been involved in online education ever since 1970, when he first experimented with simulations on mainframes. When personal computers arrived he abandoned (almost) mainframes and time sharing and immersed himself in programming and databases. When networking started to happen, he got involved in very early email and telnet applications, and then realized in 1992 that he could enhance classroom courses and reach students globally using an FTP server to simulate a Web server, when the web first started. Now he has courses and servers and websites all over the place. Every year he visits many campuses and gives presentations and workshops on online or eLearning and shows faculty and staff how to extend courseware functionality (like WebCT and Blackboard), using Java, Flash, HotMedia, streaming audio and video and collaboration or groupware like Teamwave, Webex, & Placeware. He is also a management consultant in healthcare, assisting corporate clients to design and implement virtual universities. Jack has been involved in health and nursing informatics since 1975.