Health Information Technology enables healthcare providers to capture standardized data and use it to inform patient care and communicate across a range of clinical settings. Health IT also supports one of the strongest tenets of nursing — educating the patient and family.

ANA has launched and participated in several Health IT initiatives:

Nominating nurse leaders to federal Health IT committees and workgroups Developing position statements on Health IT initiatives, policy, and standards Participating in Health IT alliances, including the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Developing educational products that support the consumer eHealth campaign of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Coordinating expert panel summit meetings to establish quality measurement models for inclusion in electronic health records