Marion Ball
EdD
Dr. Ball is Senior Advisor, Healthcare Informatics, Center for Computational Health at IBM Research and Affiliate Professor, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine, now named the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the Board of Health on the Net in Geneva, Switzerland. She has also served on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, and was President of the International Medical Informatics Association.
Dr. Ball received the Morris F. Collen Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Medical Informatics Association.
She is the author/editor of over 20 books and over 225 articles in the field of Health Informatics. Her book, Consumer Informatics, received the HIMSS Book-of-the-Year Award. Several previous editions of the nursing books have been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Korean, and Polish. The 4th Edition entitled Nursing Informatics: Where Technology and Caring Meet was published in January 2011. In 2014, the 4th Edition of the Introduction of Nursing Informatics was published. In 2015, she published four books, among which is The History of Medical Informatics in the United States with Dr. Morrie Collen as well as the 4th Edition of Healthcare Information Management
Dr. Ball received the Morris F. Collen Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Medical Informatics Association.
She is the author/editor of over 20 books and over 225 articles in the field of Health Informatics. Her book, Consumer Informatics, received the HIMSS Book-of-the-Year Award. Several previous editions of the nursing books have been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Korean, and Polish. The 4th Edition entitled Nursing Informatics: Where Technology and Caring Meet was published in January 2011. In 2014, the 4th Edition of the Introduction of Nursing Informatics was published. In 2015, she published four books, among which is The History of Medical Informatics in the United States with Dr. Morrie Collen as well as the 4th Edition of Healthcare Information Management
