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Marion J. Ball, EdD
Born
South Africa
Alma materTemple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Known forHealth Informatics, Nursing Informatics, Education, Hospital Information System
AwardsAmerican College of Medical Informatics’ (ACMI) highest honor, the Morris F. Collen Award, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) François Grémy Award (Award of Excellence)
Scientific career
FieldsMedical and Health Informatics Education, Nursing Informatics, Health Information Management, Consumer Health Informatics / Public Health Informatics, Point of Care Enabling Technologies, Trustworthy Webpages and Apps
InstitutionsThe University of Texas at Arlington, IBM Research at IBM, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Marion Jokl Ball is a South African born United States (U.S.) citizen, scientist, educator, and leader in global Biomedical and Health Informatics. She holds the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, is Presidential Distinguished Professor, College of Nursing and Health Innovation and serves as the Founding Executive Director, Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI), University of Texas at Arlington. She is Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Affiliate Professor, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. [1] She is one of the early pioneers of Informatics in Nursing and in Medicine and a founding member of the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER), a global grassroots initiative that formalized in 2006 to enable nurses and later, the multi-interdisciplinary healthcare workforce in 34 countries to best make use of Health Informatics principles, methods, tools, and resources [2]. Marion J. Ball is the author/editor of over 35 books and over 200 articles in the field of Health Informatics.

Biography and career

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Marion J. Ball received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, U.S., where she started her career as a programmer and instructor at the Medical Center after graduation. Serving as the Director of the Computer Systems and Management Group at The Temple University Philadelphia, PA, U.S. she worked in parallel on her doctoral thesis in Medical Education. In 1978, she obtained her Doctor of Education (EdD) from Temple University. Moving to The University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1985, she was appointed Director, Academic Computing and later, Vice President Information Services/Chief Information Officer as well as Professor at the School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Information Systems. In the years to follow (1985 – 2020), Dr. Ball combined academic appointments with leadership positions in the computer and consulting industry. She held an Adjunct Professorship position at The University of Maryland, School of Nursing, at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Biomedical Informatics and at John Hopkins University, School of Nursing. At the same time, Marion J Ball served as Vice President at First Consulting Group, later as Vice President, Clinical Informatics Strategies at Healthlink, Inc., and finally, in various positions as a Senior Advisor in IBM’s Research Division. [3] In 2020, she moved fully back into academia as the co-founder of the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI) at the University of Texas at Arlington [4]. She co-directs MICHI together with Gabriela M. Wilson.

Springer Health Informatics Series

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Started as Computers in Health Care in 1988 edited by Kathryn J. Hannah and Marion J. Ball, the series Health Informatics - as it is now called - has expanded from a few to over 120 books covering the vast diversity of topics in Health Informatics including “Healthcare Information Management Systems”, “Terminology, Ontology and their Implementations”, “Mental Health Informatics”, “Clinical Research Informatics”, and “Evaluation Methods in Biomedical and Health Informatics” [5].

This series has accompanied the evolvement and further development of Biomedical and Health Informatics as an international scientific discipline. Some of its books published in the early days of the series, appeared in the 5th edition, such as “Nursing Informatics: Where Caring and Technology Meet” which was the book that started the series [6].

Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER)

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TIGER began as a grassroots initiative for preparing the nursing workforce for the new challenges of a digital healthcare system. Bringing together more than one hundred nursing leaders from seventy organizations, the TIGER Summit of 1st November 2006, resulted in a white paper and report that defined action steps in the areas of 1. Management & Leadership, 2. Education, 3. Communication & Collaboration, 4. Informatics Design, 5. Information Technology, 6. Policy and 7. Culture, called the seven TIGER pillars [7]. In 2014, TIGER transitioned to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society HIMSS [8] where Marion J. Ball was the first TIGER international co-chair.

As the demand, complexity, and sophistication of competencies in Health Informatics increased over the following years, TIGER developed a comprehensive framework of recommendations of health informatics for nurses. The framework included a methodology of surveying international experts in the field, summarized their relevance ratings for competencies according to roles nurses can have, and illustrated findings them via case studies [9]. As the initiative reached out to interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to address their Health Informatics needs, TIGER developed a second framework, the International Framework for Recommendations of Core Competencies in Health Informatics 2.0 which covers the roles direct patient care, health information managers, executives, chief information officers, engineering and health IT specialists and science and education [10]. Over the years, Marion J. Ball has remained a TIGER leader by supporting its strategic and visionary direction to make positive impact on the global healthcare workforce [11].

Nursing and Health Informatics

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Marion J. Ball is one of the global leaders who established Nursing Informatics as a discipline worldwide and in the process, became an innovator in the healthcare arena [12]. “She was a prime mover in establishing the nursing informatics program at the University of Maryland.” [13]. Through her many books in this area, she influenced generations of nurses and clinicians. She has served as a bridge builder between technology and the caring professions since 1988. Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).. Her works addressed beginners, as well as advanced students, and the clinical workforce and has been translated into many languages. It is her understanding of Nursing, Health, and Medical Informatics “that technology is only an enabler; success depends on attention to human factors and collaboration across boundaries.” [13].

Health and Hospital Information Systems

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Marion J. Ball’s interest in organization wide health information systems is rooted in her practical experience of information management systems which she had gained in various executive positions held at the Temple University at Philadelphia and the University of Maryland at Baltimore from 1968 to 1996. In the early years of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), she was appointed program chair of the IMIA working conference centered on hospital information systems (1978 in Cape Town, South Africa), the first of its kind worldwide [13]. In a review over twenty years later, she pointed out “In 2002 as in 1979, HIS [hospital information systems rem. editor] must be integrated in the hospital's organizational structure; financial and economic benefits depend upon using technology as an enabler of improved clinical outcomes; and education and training remain critical to the successful use of technology solutions“ [14]. These requirements that coined the vision of information systems proved to be substantial 30 years later Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page)..

Health on the Net (HON)

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Health on the Net was a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and a non-State actor in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO). The site search tool certified medical and health information on websites, apps for mobile devices, and for social networks. The certification process was based on the HONcode, a list of requirements reflecting how transparent, reliable and trustworthy the information was [15]. HON was founded in 1995 by a group of international scientists led by Jean Raoul Scherrer [16] and based in Geneva, Switzerland until 2022 [17]. Marion J. Ball served on the Board of HON from 1998 to 2019.

Health Record Banking

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With the advent of Personal health record systems to empower the patients and citizens to access, visualize, manage, and share their health data, the need for resources enabling the secure and trusted data management arose. Coming from the area of Consumer Health Informatics, Marion J. Ball joined the Health Record Banking Alliance [18] and provided a conceptual model together with Jonathan D. Gold. The model instructed how to securely manage health data from citizens to make information available in cases of emergency and in other circumstances such as medical research. The model was inspired from the concept of financial institutions serving as safe and independent transaction platforms [19].


Awards and honors

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  • 2023 Glaser Award [20]
  • 2019-2022 Board Member, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI)
  • 2021 Distinguished Fellow, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  • 2020 The Academy of Medicine, Engine ering and Science of Texas (TAMEST), Member
  • 2017 International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI), elected as a Founding Member
  • 2017 HIMSS, recognized as one of inaugural “ Most Influential Women in Health IT” [21]
  • 2017 Health Data Management, Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT
  • 2014 HIMSS awarded Life Membership for 30 years of membership in the Society and significant contributions to the field of healthcare information technology
  • 2012 International Advisory Board Member, China Hospital Information Management Association (CHIMA)
  • 2011 IBM Industry Academy elected member
  • 2011 HIMSS 50 in 50, Received this HIMSS honor as one of the most influential IT contributors to the field over the last 50 years
  • 2010 IMIA Award of Excellence, International Medical Informatics Association
  • 2008 American Academy of Nursing (AAN), Honorary Member
  • 2005 Book-of-the-Year Award, HIMSS for Consumer informatics: Application and Strategies in Cyber Health Care
  • 2003 Honorary Membership in Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing
  • 2002 Morris F. Collen Lifetime Achievement Award (AMIA)
  • 2001 President’s Award, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  • 1996 Elected Fellow, Institute of Medicine National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1996 Fellow, College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME)
  • 1996 Honorary Member, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
  • 1996 Honorary Member, Medical Library Association (MLA)
  • 1995 President’s Award, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  • 1995 Clinical Systems Award, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
  • 1993 Distinguished Service Award, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
  • 1993 Elected first female President of the International Medical Informatics Association
  • 1992 Founding Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering
  • 1992 Pioneer Award Winner, Computer in Healthcare
  • 1984 Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)

Publications

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Books and Proceedings

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  • Hübner, Ursula H; Wilson, Gabriela M; Shaw Morawski, Marion J; Ball, eds. (2022). Nursing Informatics: A Health Informatics, Interprofessional and Global Perspective, 5th Edition. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-91237-6.
  • Hannah, Kathryn J; Ball, Marion J; Marin, Heimar F., eds. (2010). Introduction to Nursing Informatics, 3rd Edition - Portuguese Translation.
  • Ball, Marion J; Hannah, Kathryn J; Marin, Heimar F., eds. (2008). Nursing Informatics: Where Caring and Technology, 3rd Edition - Portuguese Translation.
  • Ball, Marion J; Hannah, Kathryn J; Newbold, Susan K; Douglas, Judith V, eds. (2002). Nursing Informatics: Where Caring and Technology, 3rd Edition – Korean Translation. HANMI Medical Publishing, Seoul South Korea.
  • Ball, Marion J; Hannah, Kathryn J; Newbold, Susan K.; Douglas, Judith J (eds.). Nursing Informatics: Where Caring and Technology, 3rd Edition - Korean Translation. Springer. ISBN 0-387-98923-4.
  • Ball, Marion J; O’Desky, Robert I; Douglas, James W; Albright, Judith V, eds. (1997). Healthcare Information Management Systems: A Practical Guide, 1st Edition Polish Translation. PWN Warsaw, Poland. ISBN 978-1-4757-4043-1.
  • Piemme, Marion J; Ball, eds. (1984). Executive Management of Computer Resources in the Academic Health Center and Action Plan. Association of Academic Health Centers, Washington, DC USA.
  • Ball, Marion J, ed. (1972). What is a Computer?. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. ISBN 978-0-395-13772-7.
  • Ball, Marion J, ed. (1971). Selecting a Computer System for the Clinical Laboratory. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL USA.

All publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Biography - Marion J. Ball, Ed.D." The University of Texas at Arlington. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  2. ^ "Informatics: The Tiger Project". Nursingworld. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  3. ^ "One-on-One with IBM Research Fellow and Johns Hopkins Professor Marion Ball, Ed.D.- Interview by Kate Huvane Gamble". Academia. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  4. ^ "Meet MICHI Team". The University of Texas at Arlington. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  5. ^ "Book titles in this series". Springer Nature. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  6. ^ "The health informatics series: Evolving with a new discipline". International Journal of Medical Informatics. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  7. ^ "The TIGER Initiative Report 2007" (PDF). TIGER Summit. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  8. ^ "Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform". HIMSS. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  9. ^ "TIGER: An International Recommendation Framework of Core Competencies in Health Informatics for Nurses" (PDF). Methods of Information in Medicine. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  10. ^ "TIGER: Global Recommendations". HIMSS. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  11. ^ "Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER). The Future of Interprofessional Education Is Here!". IOS Press. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  12. ^ "Nursing Informatics Innovators: Marion Ball". American Medical Informatics Association. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  13. ^ a b c "Presentation of Morris F. Collen Award to Dr. Marion J. Ball". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  14. ^ "Hospital information systems: perspectives on problems and prospects, 1979 and 2002". International Journal of Medical Informatics. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  15. ^ "Health On the Net's 20 Years of Transparent and Reliable Health Information". IOS Press. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  16. ^ "Jean Raoul Scherrer". Rutgers University. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  17. ^ "Health on the Net - Contact". Health on the Net. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  18. ^ "Marion Ball EdD". Health Record Banking Alliance. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  19. ^ "Banking on health Personal records and information exchange". Journal of Healthcare Information Management. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  20. ^ "Marion Jokl Ball Named 2023 Glaser Award Recipient". The John P. Glaser Health Informatics Society. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  21. ^ "Marion J. Ball talks about why a common language is critical at point of care". Healthcare IT News. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
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