Susan K. Newbold, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, FHIMSS, is an Associate Professor, Nursing Informatics, Vanderbilt School of Nursing, Nashville, TN. She began teaching online in 1999 at Excelsior College, Albany, NY. She is certified in Nursing Informatics by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Dr. Newbold has made over 200 presentations on healthcare informatics in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, and Taiwan. She is the founder of CARING, a national nursing informatics special interest group. Dr. Newbold has numerous publications to her credit inc...