Digitalization of nursing

Konstantinos Antypas: Research Manager, SINTEF Digital, Norway | Senior Researcher, Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, Norway

Konstantinos Antypas is a nurse and researcher with main research interests in eHealth and innovative health services. He studied nursing and health informatics in Greece and earned a PhD in eHealth and telemedicine in Norway. He is working as Research Manager of the “E-health and innovation” group at SINTEF Digital and as Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research. His recent research focuses on improving healthcare in low-income African countries through better eHealth.

Mattias Georgsson, PhD, RN, FAMIA: Assistant Professor, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Sweden

Mattias Georgsson is Assistant Professor of Nursing at Jönköping University, Sweden where he lectures in eHealth and nursing informatics. His research focuses on evaluation methods for digital health interventions. He has been a research fellow with the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics, and the Johns Hopkins University Department of Health Science Informatics. He is a registered nurse with a Master’s degree in Nursing and in Health Informatics from Karolinska Institutet and a Master’s degree in Information Technology from Chalmers University of Technology. He completed his PhD in Applied Health Technology at Blekinge Institute of Technology. He is Chair of the Swedish Society for Nursing Informatics and Vice Chair of the European Federation for Medical Informatics – Nursing Informatics Working Group.

Nancy Staggers, PhD, RN, FAAN: Adjunct Professor, College of Nursing, University of Utah, US

Nancy Staggers is a nursing informatics innovator whose expertise is user experience and large clinical systems implementations. She led enterprise electronic health record installations for the US Department of Defense and for private organizations. Her research program concentrates on the user experience of electronic health records and mobile apps UX as well as informatics competencies for nurses. She was an U.S. Army nurse for 25 years and then an informatics professor at the University of Utah, the University of Maryland, and the University of Alabama Birmingham. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Utah.