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Healthcare Innovation: It takes the time that it takes.

While clinicians (e.g., nurses, doctors, CNAs, etc.). are the users of new health care technologies, they are often not the purchasers. This complicates the diffusion of innovation in healthcare. However, it doesn’t mean it can’t be done. It does mean it will likely take longer than diffusing innovation at the consumer level. Article originally appeared… Read more

Nightingale’s Innovative Nurses Campaign

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In September, we kicked off our Nightingale’s Innovative Nurses campaign! At Nightingale Apps, we believe in innovation, compassion, and serving others. That’s why we’ve decided to highlight nurses that use ingenuity to solve problems at the bedside. If you’d like to nominate a nurse or even yourself please reach out to us at contact@nightingaleapps.com. We’ve shared… Read more

Where do I start?

Earlier this week I spent some time speaking to a group of graduate nursing students at a college in Boston Massachusetts. We talked about the foundations of nursing informatics, electronic health records (EHRs), apps, and problem solving in the field. Each student mentioned something that could be improved with regard to their current health IT… Read more

Healthcare Innovation: It Takes the Time that it Takes

Did you know that the first electronic health records (e.g., EHRs) were developed in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s? I did not know this when I first came to know them in the early 2000’s. I naively thought, ‘how hard can it be to take paper records and turn them into an electronic form?’…. Read more

Nurse Entrepreneurship & Nightingale’s Innovative Nurses

I knew very little about entrepreneurship when I started down this path several years ago. I had the idea and vision for Know My Patient®. I knew that every bedside nurse deserves an opportunity to have accurate, up to date information needed for patient care at their fingertips. I knew chasing after information was a… Read more