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Sponsors Of The
11th ICNI
The eleventh
International Congress on Nursing Informatics, which was held
between June 23 and 27 at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, promoted
the theme of advancing global health through informatics. The event
was hosted by AMIA, also known as the American Medical Informatics
Association, in association with various collaborating organisations
which included the Canadian Nurses Association, the Pan American
Health Organization and the Global Health Informatics Partnership.
However, the congress was also supported by various commercial
sponsors, to which AMIA gave thanks.
Attendees came from all over the world in what was a truly
international series of events. Countries from North American
included the host nation, Canada, as well as the United States and
Mexico. Europe was represented by attendees from Belgium, Finland,
Iceland, Sweden Switzerland, Slovenia and others. However, there
were also attendees from further afield including the likes of New
Zealand, Brazil, China, Japan and Taiwan who will host the twelfth
congress in 2014. Each of the attendees could not have had such a
wide or in-depth experience without the support of the congress’
sponsors.
Formerly known as the Research Triangle Institute, RTI International
were sponsors of the congress in Montreal. RTI are based in North
Carolina, USA and conduct scientific research in health care arenas
such as cancer, drug abuse, education and even pollution. One area
that RTI work in is education and training research and another is
statistical research. As such they make for an ideal sponsor for a
congress that deals with information collection and data sharing,
such as nursing informatics. The US Agency for International
Development works directly with researchers who employed by RTI. The
organisation has also carried out research into HIV and AIDS as well
as other healthcare issues. RTI maintains a presence all over the
globe with offices in Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Jakarta, New Delhi and
two in the United Kingdom.
Elsevier CPM Resource Center was another sponsor of the congress.
The company has a good deal of expertise in healthcare provision
with an interdisciplinary team of clinical professionals. According
to Elsevier, their staff have advanced degrees and, collectively,
hundreds of years of experience in hospitals across the US and in
Canada. Elsevier specialise in the Clinical Practice Model, better
known as CPM. The company was founded in 1983, with the intent
creating in partnerships the best places to give and receive care.
In order to do this Elsevier addresses the realities and concerns
faced by a good deal of healthcare providers. The initial work of
the company which developed CPM was carried out in a three year long
pilot in a community hospital. The successful outcomes in healthcare
practices led to a new six year pilot with multiple hospitals across
the United States and Elsevier has never looked back.
Philips, the multinational company based in the Netherlands, were
also sponsors of the eleventh international congress. Philips is
undoubtedly best known for their consumer products, but they
manufacture a wide range of specialist health care products, too.
These products are in many areas of health but include military
care, mother and child care, radiology, surgery and anaesthesia.
Philips also offer educational services for health care
professionals and have a state of the art facility to provide this
in Dubai, known as Healthcare City. Education is broken down by
product or by profession and nurses will find of most interest
courses in critical care, home health care and pain management.
However, the group offer much more than these three areas, in terms
of nursing education.
Technology specialist nVoq was another organisation that sponsored
the Canadian event. The company offer voice based technology
services designed to assist a range of industries. However, they
have an accent on products for the health care sector. The basic
idea of a healthcare product like SayIt is that health care
professionals can dictate notes and data onto the system, allowing
them to automate part of their clinical workflow. In short, it means
hours spent at a computer terminal typing notes could be a thing of
the past for nurses.
The congress also received sponsorship from the Canada Health
Infoway which is a non profit organisation tasked with improving the
development of electronic health records throughout the country.
Infoway’s members are made up from the fourteen federal, provincial
and territorial Deputy Ministers of Health in Canada. The aim of
Canada Health Infoway is to better the network of digital systems
that hold health records so that efficient communication between
health care professionals is enabled. This, in turn, should lead to
a deeper professional knowledge of patient needs. The result of the
current project will include shorter medical procedure wait times,
it is hoped. Furthermore, the digitisation of health records should
lead to safer prescriptions and improved access to quality health
care.
The American Nursing Informatics Association also sponsored the
event. Formed in 1992 in Southern California, the organisation
provides networking, education and information resources for nurses
that are designed to enrich and strengthen the roles of health care
operative and the field of informatics. Nowadays, the membership of
the organisation is open to individual nurses and other
professionals who are interested in nursing informatics as well as
corporations. It has about 3,000 members.
The voice for nursing informatics in Canada, the Canadian Nursing
Informatics Association was also a sponsor of the congress. Also
known as CNIA, the association was put together to help nurses
across the country to share, research and learn about informatics
related projects. They help to promote the experiences of nurses
that can help to aid theoretical knowledge as well as practices of
informatics at a national level. CNIA says that it intends to expand
awareness of nursing informatics to all who work in the health care
community. It also has a periodical called the Canadian Journal of
Nursing Informatics to help provide information and the latest
developments to its members.
The final sponsor of the Canadian congress was Kanter Health, a
family foundation based in Los Angeles. A non-profit organisation,
Kanter Health work in the fields of research and data sharing with
clinicians in order that they can make better informed treatment
decisions.
