Organization Profile Leadership Home Products and Services Frequently Asked Questions News Releases and Coverage Speakers Bureau Potential Media Topics Contacts PDF Media Kit PRESIDENT-ELECT PROFILE Dr. Jane Brokel, United States, was elected in 2008 to serve in the role of President beginning in 2012 through 2016. She is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Iowa teaching informatics courses and conducting informatics research. Dr. Brokel studies clinical decision support interventions impacting care delivery, and serves as the nursing representative and informatician member for the State of Iowa Executive Committee and Advisory Council for the Health Information Exchange and Health Information Technology strategic and foundational planning. Dr. Brokel's Research Focus Prior to her faculty position, Dr. Brokel was responsible for clinical transformation in Trinity Health’s 17 organizations from 2002- 2006 when implementing electronic health records. Trinity Health (Novi, Michigan) is the third largest Catholic health system in the United States with hospitals, clinics, and other facilities in seven states. She directed the development of evidence-based order sets for computerized provider order entry and clinical decision support expert rules for notification messages, alerts, reminders and care orders. Dr. Brokel worked with multiple interdisciplinary teams of health professionals to redesign patient-centered workflows to guide care delivery using HIT.Dr. Brokel was a co-principal investigator for an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant to study implementation of health information technology using a “big bang” approach from 2004-2007. In the ten years prior to 2002, she was in director for Mercy Medical Center– North Iowa, a rural referral hospital, critical access hospitals, and clinics across 14 counties. She disseminated evidence-based practices and measured clinical outcomes for quality improvement and managing risks. Dr. Brokel was certified in critical care nursing and practiced primarily in critical care units from 1976-1992 and served as a manager, house supervisor, member of an Ethics Committee and a critical care educator. She acknowledges teaching new staff on how to use nursing diagnoses in critical care nursing in the 1980’s. Her volunteer activities included 15 years as an emergency medical technician in a community and elected Board of Director for a community school district for 9 years. She received her doctoral degree in 2003 from the University of Iowa in nursing administration with a focus on Informatics.
Dr. Jane Brokel, United States, was elected in 2008 to serve in the role of President beginning in 2012 through 2016. She is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Iowa teaching informatics courses and conducting informatics research. Dr. Brokel studies clinical decision support interventions impacting care delivery, and serves as the nursing representative and informatician member for the State of Iowa Executive Committee and Advisory Council for the Health Information Exchange and Health Information Technology strategic and foundational planning. Dr. Brokel's Research Focus
Prior to her faculty position, Dr. Brokel was responsible for clinical transformation in Trinity Health’s 17 organizations from 2002- 2006 when implementing electronic health records. Trinity Health (Novi, Michigan) is the third largest Catholic health system in the United States with hospitals, clinics, and other facilities in seven states. She directed the development of evidence-based order sets for computerized provider order entry and clinical decision support expert rules for notification messages, alerts, reminders and care orders. Dr. Brokel worked with multiple interdisciplinary teams of health professionals to redesign patient-centered workflows to guide care delivery using HIT.Dr. Brokel was a co-principal investigator for an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant to study implementation of health information technology using a “big bang” approach from 2004-2007. In the ten years prior to 2002, she was in director for Mercy Medical Center– North Iowa, a rural referral hospital, critical access hospitals, and clinics across 14 counties. She disseminated evidence-based practices and measured clinical outcomes for quality improvement and managing risks. Dr. Brokel was certified in critical care nursing and practiced primarily in critical care units from 1976-1992 and served as a manager, house supervisor, member of an Ethics Committee and a critical care educator. She acknowledges teaching new staff on how to use nursing diagnoses in critical care nursing in the 1980’s. Her volunteer activities included 15 years as an emergency medical technician in a community and elected Board of Director for a community school district for 9 years. She received her doctoral degree in 2003 from the University of Iowa in nursing administration with a focus on Informatics.