Nurses’ Workgroup on Consumer Empowerment/PHRs

Posted February 6, 2008 by Lygeia Ricciardi

FYI -- The Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative is focused on helping the nursing profession to adopt informatics tools, principles, theories and practices that make healthcare safer and more effective, efficient, patient-centered and equitable for all stakeholders.

At the TIGER Summit in 2006, participants defined action steps that the nursing profession can take to better prepare its workforce to use technology and informatics to improve the delivery of patient care.  Nine workgroups grew out of that effort – one on Consumer Empowerment and PHRs. The Consumer Empowerment and PHRs workgroup has set up a wiki and will be holding a webinar on February 21^st. The group is still fairly early in defining its work. You can sign up to participate here.