The TIGER Initiative
Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform
2006 TIGER SUMMIT SPONSORS
The TIGER mission could not be carried out if not for the generous financial and resource support of the following sponsors:  


 


Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provided both financial and outstanding logistics support for the TIGER Summit.






Alliance for Nursing Informatics

The Alliance for Nursing Informatics, one of the TIGER founders, is a collaborative effort between the two premier informatics organizations--American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).






American Health Information Management Association


 
American Medical Informatics Association - Nursing Informatics Working Group

AMIA also provided additional resource support with budgeting and contracting.


American Nurses Association


American Nursing Informatics Association







APPTIS
The TIGER Team would like to thank APPTIS for the conference bags and the excellent logistic support offered for the Summit.


Audience Response Systems, Inc.
Audience Response Systems, Inc. Audience Response Systems (ARS) provided the use and their extensive expertise of the electronic voting system that facilitated the consensus-building process during the Summit.










Bonfire Communications

We would also like to provide special recognition to Bonfire Communications for their outstanding facilitation and communication support for the TIGER Summit.








Capital Area Roundtable for Informatics in Nursing

 
Cerner Corporation

Cerner also provided the logo artwork for the TIGER Team.



Clinical Information Technology Program Office (CITPO)



 



CliniComp, Intl.





 


CPM Resource Center


Eclipsys Corporation









Elsevier Health Sciences



GE Healthcare 







Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
The TIGER Team would like to acknowledge the additional support that HIMSS provided with registration, hotel contracts, and logistics support for the Summit.


IBM Healthcare

 

Independence Foundation


Marion Ball



McKesson Healthcare






The MITRE Corporation








National Library of Medicine
This project has been funded in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3505.


Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The TIGER Team would like to give special recognition for RWJF for their generous support of the evaluation and publication activities following the Summit.



Siemens Healthcare



Sigma Theta Tau, Intl.


Tenet Healthcare



Thomson Healthcare



University of Maryland - Baltimore County
We would like to acknowledge the support of UMBC for creating the TIGER Summit website.




Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
The TIGER Summit was graciously hosted by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in
Bethesda, Maryland.  A special thank you to Dr. Patricia Hinton Walker for her tremendous support coordinating the facility services for the Summit.






 








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