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Judy Murphy, BSN, RN
Judy Murphy, BSN, RN

Director of Application Development
Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, WI

Email: judy.murphy@aurora.org
Web site: http://www.aurorahealthcare.org/ 

Judy Murphy, RN, BSN, is Director of Application Development at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  She is responsible for the systems that support all clinical areas and leads Aurora’s EHR (Electronic Health Record) implementation.  She has been in systems work for 20 years, involving extensive experience with all levels of project management in both custom program development and purchased vendor products, and is currently responsible for 120 analyst and programming staff.  Aurora is an integrated delivery network with 14 hospitals, 100 ambulatory centers and clinics, 3 home health agencies, and over 23,000 employees.

She is a member of HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) and AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association), and is currently on the AMIA Board of Directors.  She has published and lectured nationally and internationally on the use of computers in healthcare.

  1. Clinical Information Systems: A Framework for Reaching the Vision, Washington DC: American Nurses Publishing, 2003. 
  2. "Patient Documentation – Letter to the Editor,” JONA, Vol 30, No. 7/8: 342, (July/Aug 2000).  
  3. "Nursing Process Redesign with the Implementation of a Computer Based Patient Record in the Ambulatory Setting," 323-329, Nursing Informatics: The Impact of Nursing Knowledge on Health Care Informatics, Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of IMIA-NI, the special interest group on Nursing Informatics of International Medical Informatics Association, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1997 (Paper presented at the Conference in Stockholm, Sweden).  
  4. Charting By Exception Applications:  Making It Work in Clinical Settings, Albany, New York:  Delmar Publishers, 1995.
  5. "Bedside Charting By Exception in a Computerized Patient Care Plan System," 271-275, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Nursing Use of Computers and Information Science, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 1994 (Paper presented at the Conference in San Antonio, Texas).  
  6. "Formation of a Statewide Task Force to Define the Hospital Information System Requirements for Effective Nursing Information Management," 315-319, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Nursing Use of Computers and Information Science, New York: Springer-Verlag/Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics Series No. 42, 1991 (Paper presented at the Conference in Melbourne, Australia).  
  7. "Charting By Exception: An Efficient Way to Document," Nursing '90, Vol. 20, No. 5: 65-69, (May 1990).  
  8. Charting By Exception:  A Cost-Effective, Quality Approach, Albany, New York:  Delmar Publishers, 1988.  
  9. "Developing the Content and Process for Computerized Nursing Diagnosis-Based Standard Care Plans," Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Nursing Use of Computers and Information Science, 758-772, Washington D.C.: C.V. Mosby Company, 1988 (Paper presented at the Conference in Dublin, Ireland).
  10. "Charting By Exception: Meeting the Challenge of Cost Containment," Nursing Management, Vol. 19, No. 2: 56-72 (February 1988).
  11. "AccessLink Software:  An Interface Between PCs in the Physician's Office and the HIS," Proceedings of the 1987 Annual Healthcare Systems Conference, American Hospital Association (Paper presented at the Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada).
Venue Presentation
Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS): “Building Hospitals: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way”, Annual Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, FL (to be presented 2/04)
  “Cooperative Processing: Clinicians and IT Staff”, Summer Conference, Chicago, IL (6/03)
  “Positioning Clinicians in your Organization to Ensure IT Project Success”, Annual Conference and Exhibition, Atlanta, GA (1/02)
  "Profile of a Successful Ambulatory Computer-Based Patient Record Implementation", Annual Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, FL (2/98).
University of Maryland at Baltimore Annual Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics (SINI): “Clinical Information Systems: A Framework for Reaching the Visions”, (7/03)
  "Systems Implementation Lifecycle: Tips for Success", (7/97, 7/00, 7/02, 7/03).
  "Clinical Documentation: Charting By Exception", (7/95, 7/96).
International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) – Nursing Informatics Congress: "Navigating the System Implementation Lifecycle During Nursing Documentation System Implementations”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Workshop, 6/03).
  "Nursing Workflow Redesign with the Implementation of a Computerized Documentation System", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (Panel, 6/03)
  "Bedside Computing in the '90's" (3/91).
  ECHO Meeting (IBM's Health Oriented User Group):
  Evolving the Clinical Information System", Monterey, CA (9/93).
  "Harnessing the Benefits of Information Technology for Nursing", Boulder, CO (3/92).
  "Nursing Perspective of HIS Requirments", Boston, MA (3/90).
Marquette General Hospital, Marquette, MI: "Understanding Computers: Nursing in the Information Age" Conference (9/89).
University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Nursing: "Nursing Information Systems" for the Nursing Informatics: Issues and Strategies of Managing Information for the Nurse Administrator Conference (7/89).
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, College of Nursing: Guest lecturer for "Computer Applications in Nursing" undergraduate course (4/88).
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, College of Nursing: Guest lecturer for a faculty development workshop entitled "Nursing Education in the Information Age" (5/92).
  Guest lecturer for "Nursing Informatics" undergraduate course (5/92).
  "Computer Applications for Clinical Nursing Practice:  State of the Art" and "Future Trends" for the 1987-88 Gourmet Nursing Series.
  Participant, Nursing Minimum Data Set Invitational Conference (5/85).