HiNZ board chair Karen Blake awarded Robyn Carr Cup

SECTOR UPDATE - HiNZ

HiNZ board chair Karen Blake has been awarded the Robyn Carr Cup for 2022.

The Robyn Carr Cup for Excellence in Nursing Informatics is awarded annually at the eHealth Nursing & Midwifery (NMI) event, during Digital Health Week NZ.

The award recognises sustained support of nursing and midwifery informatics in New Zealand and acknowledges the central role nurses and midwives have had, and continue to have, in supporting the profession, each other and the wider interests of the health informatics community.

When announcing the award, HiNZ NMI executive member Emma Collins said Blake has shown steadfast commitment to fostering an interest of nurses, midwives and nursing/midwifery informatics in New Zealand and Australia.

Blake was a founding member of the HiNZ Clinical Informatics Leadership Network and was a Clinical Informatics Leadership Award finalist in 2020.

“She has led the expansion of the clinical informatics team in healthAlliance and provided the clinical lens into decision making,” Collins said.

“She has assisted in removing barriers in communication and promoted collegial relationships between management, clinical and IT people.”

Blake was a midwife in Australia and New Zealand for over 20 years and currently works as a director in the Hauora team for Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Source: HiNZ media release

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