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The TIGER Initiative

Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform

TIGER Initiative - An Update

NEW! - Join us for an educational Webinar on March 25, 2008 at 2-3 p.m. EDT

Register now to reserve your seat at
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/855209106

Title: What Nurses Need to Know about Consumer Empowerment and the Personal Health Record

The TIGER Initiative is offering a free Educational Webinar presentation to any interested TIGER participant and is offering CEU credits.  This webinar will describe provide an overview of the Personal Health Record and Consumer Empowerment strategies.

Objectives:
Examine the role of consumer empowerment and personal health records in today's health care marke.  This webinar will describe the current landscape for personal health records and explore the impact that nurses can have in using these tools within their practice.

Presentors:  Rita D. Zielstorff, RN MS
and
Charlotte Weaver, RN, PhD

Please feel free to invite your colleagues to attend this webinar as well.  We will record the webinar for those individuals that cannot attend in person, and make the recording available on our website.

TIGER Initiative has over 500 nurses working to bridge the healthcare quality chasm with information technology

The Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative released a summary report titled Evidence and Informatics Transforming Nursing: 3-Year Action Steps toward a 10-Year Vision. The TIGER Initiative aims to enable practicing nurses and nursing students to fully engage in the unfolding digital era of healthcare. Enabling nurses to use information technology (IT) seamlessly to provide safer, higher-quality patient care will require action on the part of many stakeholders, including professional organizations, academic institutions, government and policy makers, vendors, healthcare delivery organizations, health information management professionals, and librarians.

Obtain a copy of the TIGER Summary Report.

Today more than 500 nurses have volunteered their expertise to work on the nine collaborative teams. Each team is being led by industry experts on the topic. The goal of the collaborative teams is to share their findings and recommendations to all practicing nurses and nursing students through targeted outreach activities. Examples of the materials that the collaborative teams are developing include presentations, white papers, webinars, and articles for publication in specialty journals and text books.

9 Collaborative Teams formed to accelerate the work of the TIGER Action Plan! The 9 teams will complete and publish their recommendations in October 2008.

While the TIGER Initiative started out as a grass-roots effort to engage with all stakeholders that are committed to a common “vision” of ideal EHR-enabled nursing practice, today more than 120 diverse organizations have joined the effort to collaborate on nine important topics. Each of the nine teams has developed a wiki that explains their goals, activities, and progress:

1. Standards and Interoperability

2. Healthcare IT National Agenda/HIT Policy

3. Informatics Competencies

4. Education and Faculty Development

5. Staff Development/Continuing Education

6. Usability/Clinical Application Design

7. Virtual Demonstration Center

8. Leadership Development

9. Consumer Empowerment/Personal Health Record