We like to stay innovative in our ‘traditional’ January “Outlook” issue for SI’s Inside Edge report and we think we’ve achieved that with our first “Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) Outlook for 2017.” Trailblazing health systems – no earlier than 2010 – created the CNIO title in recognition that nursing is a co-ruler of the EHR space with the medical profession. It’s simple math: Nurses have more sustained contact with patients than any
other clinicians and more nurses use the EHR than doctors. Of course, CNIOs are also CCOs – chief collaboration officers – as evidenced in our discussion, which features conversations with CNIOs and the executives to whom they report from leading health systems Advocate Health Care, Banner Health and Texas Health Resources. Each health system has a different CNIO reporting relationship, which highlights the continuing evolution of the CNIO position and its growing role in optimizing the EHR to achieve patient safety, quality of care and efficiency of operations.