Engage the people – health informatics and personal health management.

Patients and their families represent an undervalued resource, and their active participate through the use of digital services could positively disrupting health care interactions and patterns of care. Future-oriented, elegant tools for citizen engagement, can nurture change by offering novel opportunities to collect, complement and curate information for personal personal health and wellness needs. Convenience, accessibility and active use of these digital tools generates information allowing for knowledge and wisdom that can guide how best to optimize resource consumption of public and private health services. Nurses are perfectly poised to lead this paradigm shift and nurse informaticists will support the nurses in learning these new skills, and significantly impact patients’ health through multiple avenues including the new role of digital technology mediator and broker