The Rita Kobb Nursing & Health Informatics National Symposium is a free bi-yearly lectureship series that explores topics in nursing informatics. This series was created by a gift made in honor of Rita Kobb, a UF College of Nursing alumna and nursing informatics expert, by Bill and Patti Alcorn.
Registration is now closed for this event.
WHEN Friday, Feb. 24, 2023 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (EST)
WHERE: Reitz Union 686 Museum Road Gainesville, FL 32611 *PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE HELD VIRTUALLY.*
meet the keynotes!
opening keynote
KENRICK CATO, PHD, RN, CPHIMS
CLosing keynote
JANET STIFTER, PHD, RN, CPHQ, NE-BC
PROGRAM OUTCOMES
After attending the 2023 Rita Kobb Nursing & Health Informatics National Symposium, participants will be able to:
- Understand the use, scope, and applicability of nursing and health informatics
- Summarize the current trends involving nursing informatics and health informatics, including:
- Digital technology interventions to improve patient outcomes
- Healthcare workforce well-being in the use of digital technologies
- Advances in robotics and voice assistant technology in health care
- Artificial Intelligence applications to support initiatives to reduce health care burden
- Differentiate the state-of-the-art informatics approaches, theories, and methods relevant to clinical and translational science
- Interact with professionals engaged in clinical and translational science including clinical and translational investigators, data scientists, clinical- and bio-informaticians, public health informaticians, and those involved with clinical and research IT policy and regulatory issues
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Faculty, staff scientists, educators, students, post-docs and investigators with an interest in applied biomedical informatics that advances clinical and translational science
- Biomedical and health informatics researchers in academia and industry
- Data scientists working with biomedical datasets
- Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) researchers
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) researchers
- Computer scientists and system developers
- Computational biologists with interests in human disease, drug discovery, drug repurposing, and drug response
- Health science ethicists, lawyers, and policy experts
- Government officials and policymakers
- Health information and knowledge management professionals
- HIT industry professionals and consultants
- Industry representatives related to bioinformatics and genomics
- Physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other clinicians
- Public health informaticians/practitioners, patient advocates, consumer advocates, and disease management specialists
- Standards developers, with particular emphasis on EHR data repurposing