TIGER is now moving forward to integrate a full set of recommendations on: Get connected on the current activities of the Virtual Learning Environment! Welcome to the NEW TIGER Initiative Website! The new website aims to connect you with current resources, upcoming events and TIGERs in your area.

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Our Vision: Transform health and health care through nursing informatics Our Mission: To advance nursing informatics practice, education, policy and research through a unified voice of nursing informatics organizations. We represent thousands of nurses and bring together nursing informatics groups that function separately at local, regional, national and international levels.

JAMIA, the most innovative research journal published in Health and Biomedicine today, delivers the latest research and information about health care's hot new field in a series of free webinars!

The Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI) is a free, international, professional, refereed publication that focuses on nursing informatics in all practice settings. OJNI is committed to addressing the theoretical and practical aspects of nursing informatics as it relates to the art of nursing. CINAHL indexes the journal.

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Welcome to the new incarnation of CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing. The year 2011 heralds significant changes in the way CIN publishes, with substantial benefits for readers and authors alike. After publishing dozens of articles over the years on the use of the Internet for patient education and research, the journal has made the transition to a monthly online presence.

The traditional paper charting system used by numerous health care facilities is costly and time-consuming - it's yesterday's news. The American Recovery Act of 2009 will require all medical offices to have electronic health records by 2014. What are the benefits of electronic medical records?

COLUMBIANA - Patient medical records at Columbiana Clinic are going paperless. Two of the clinic's four physicians have already made the switch. The other two will follow soon. Once the switch is complete, medical records will exist only in a computer system, not on paper.

The Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information; the HIPAA Security Rule, which sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information; and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule, which protect identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety.

The material in this report originated in the Epidemiology Program Office, Stephen B. Thacker, M.D., M.Sc., Director. New national health information privacy standards have been issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

TIGER Initiative has over 1500 nurses working to bridge the healthcare quality chasm with information technology. These activities are focused on creating a Virtual Learning Center and developing another invitational summit. Please contact Dr. Patricia Hinton Walker at phintonwalker@usuhs.mil if you would like to participate in these activities.