HEALTHTECH: What does your job entail?
ROCCHIO: The position requires a nurse leader to understand how to use technology and analytics to improve performance, care, patient experience and nurse engagement.
It is a partnership. The job requires you to not only work with your IT department but to learn what they do, how they do it and form relationships so we each understand what the other is trying to accomplish.
SCHLEYER: My role is to connect the dots between compassionate care and innovative technologies.
We are always looking at how to provide technology and tools that nurses and interprofessional teams need to deliver the highest-quality evidence-based care possible in a dynamic environment that supports patient safety and outcomes.
VENTURA: I’m responsible for driving a standardized strategy. There may be nursing informaticists at our individual hospitals, but I’m working on a structure that supports enterprise-level standardization.
A lot of my efforts also focus on cleanup work on clinical documentation and making it easier for nurses. Now that we’ve had an EMR for about 10 years, how can we make it better?