CNIO Network
The CNIO Network is a best practice and collaboration Network dedicated to promoting the development of current and future Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Care Professional information leaders across all health and social care organisations. The term CNIO refers to all lead Nurse, Midwife and Allied Health Care Professionals who have a component of informatics as a key part of their role.
The CNIO Network is a membership-based network and community comprised of individual clinical information leaders. The Network aims to provide members with the tools and resources to support their development as clinical information leaders, through a combination of knowledge resources, events and online community and collaboration tools.
Membership of the network is free of charge and offers the following benefits:
- Opportunity to vote in elections and elect advisory panel members.
- Opportunity to attend events including regional and national events, Summer School and the Leadership Summit.
- Exclusive access to the private collaboration community.
- Access to the online database of Health CIO Network Members.
- Exclusive access to network surveys and research.
- Opportunity to improve profile visibility within the network.
The CNIO role is often seen as a link between nurses working clinically and the IT department, but in my case it also involves being a link between two recently merged trusts covering acute and community services. Differing approaches to …
It’s fair to say I’ve had a varied nursing career. I qualified in 1994 and have held clinical roles and management ones. I started taking an interest in digitally-supported healthcare over 10 years ago when I discovered a love for …
Back in 2015, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust – a small but mighty specialist paediatrics trust – set a vision for its digital future. We were to introduce an electronic patient record (EPR): “An integrated system …
Introducing the CNIO role The chief nursing information officer role is usually broad but, at its heart, it is about bridging the gap between technology and clinical practice. CNIOs should have a seat at the table when the clinical technology …
The value of nursing digital leadership Sarah Hanbridge, chief clinical information officer, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and chair, CNIO Network It’s about two and a half years since I become a chief clinical information officer, meaning I very formally …
