Development of informatics competencies for practicing nurses

Transforming Health Care: The President’s Health Information Technology Plan

Jan 20, 2004

President Bush has outlined a plan to ensure that most Americans have electronic health records within the next 10 years

Establishment of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health InformationTechnology and the Decade of Health Information Technology

Jul 21, 2004

1. Encourage the widespread adoption of electronic health records 2. Interconnect clinicians so that data and information can be more easily shared 3.Personalize care through the use of personal health records and telehealth 4. Improve public health through accessible information.

The TIGER Summit: “Evidence and Informatics Transforming Nursing”

Nov 1, 2006

As the health care industry works toward the widespread adoption of electronic health records by 2014, nursing must transform itself as a profession in order to make full use of the capabilities electronic records will provide.

President Obama continued this momentum when he took office in 2009, proposing to “Let us be the generation that reshapes healthcare to compete in the digital age.

Feb 10, 2007

Barack Obama Presidential Announcement Speech in Springfield, IL

President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Feb 17, 2009

earmarking $19 billion to develop an electronic health information technology infrastructure that will improve the efficiency and access of healthcare to all Americans