The Alliance for Nursing Informatics and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society named Dana Alexander, RN, MSN, its 2016 HIMSS-ANI Nursing Informatics Leadership Award winner. The two organizations jointly sponsor the award.
The award "recognizes a nursing informatics leader who demonstrates significant leadership contributions by optimizing health engagements and care outcomes through IT."
Ms. Alexander is the executive director of health advisory at London, United Kingdom-based Ernst &Young. She is also the immediate past chair of the HIMSS' North America board of directors.
Prior to E&Y, Ms. Alexander served as vice president of clinical advisory at Virginia Beach, Va.-based Divurgent and vice president of integrated care delivery and CNO at Bellevue, Wash.-based Caradigm.