Robert Nieves is a registered nurse, health informatics executive, and vice president of health informatics at Elsevier Clinical Solutions. With more than 35 years of experience spanning clinical practice, leadership, and digital health, he has worked with health care organizations across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to advance evidence-based practice and improve patient care.
A published health care thought leader, Robert writes about the intersection of health care, technology, leadership, personal growth, and the human experiences that shape our lives. His articles have appeared in The Journal of mHealth, Nursing Review, and Hospital + Healthcare, and he contributed Case Study 12.1, "Clinical Practice Model Framework Approach to Achieve Clinical Practice Interoperability and Big Data Comparative Analysis," to the Springer Health Informatics Series textbook Big Data-Enabled Nursing.
Through his Human in the Middle series, Robert explores what happens when innovation, purpose, and humanity meet in an increasingly complex world. He shares updates on LinkedIn.
One of the unintended consequences of digital health is that we became extraordinarily good at collecting information without spending nearly enough time teaching clinicians how to use it together.
For years, health care informatics focused largely on documentation itself. We trained clinicians to click, complete, reconcile, acknowledge, and navigate increasingly complex systems. Conversations emerged around reducing clicks, decreasing documentation burden, and improving workflow efficiency. Those things matter.
But somewhere along the way, …
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Fragmented care is the gap digital health left open
