Contributing Editors

Bob Pyke Jr.
Bob Pyke Jr., RN, CPNP is a RN, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, and a technical consultant with experience in healthcare management. His interests include Ambulatory Care, Chronic Care, Home Health Care and Case Management, Managed Care, Pediatrics, Health Informatics, E-Health, Distance Education, International Health, Humanization Relief and International Pediatrics.

Bob is co-administrator of the Telehealth Professional Discussion List serve and the E-Health Professional Discussion List serve. He is also the assistant editor of the Telehealth News Letter, and a constant observer and writer focused on the use of technology in health care today.

In real life he is adoptive father of a son from Korea and a daughter from Nepal. In his spare time, he tries to travel back to Asia to escort children to spend time with their families. He is also a professional clown and is AKA, Dr. Denton Fender.

Robert Eager
Mr. Eager has a Diploma of Computing and a Bachelor of Nursing degree and plans to start on a Masters program in the area of informatics. He has been involved in computer education for nurses and is currently involved in a clinical information systems development role.

Kay Sackett and Scott Erdley

Kay and Scott are Joint Contributing Editors for Data Mining and Practice Setting Research.

Kay Sackett

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. My academic credentials consist of a BSN, MEd and EdD in Health Education from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.; an MSN in Nursing Administration from Widener University in Chester, PA.; and a Certificate in Online Teaching from UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

I became involved with technology and nursing in the mid 1990s. Nursing students were having difficulty passing the computerized NCLEX licensing examination. I attended a summer workshop on construction of computerized tests and a workshop on creating web pages in HTML. My undergraduate student class assignments began to include computerized course examinations, building department, faculty and student web pages. A rudimentary “online” course was developed in nursing informatics.

Currently, I teach several web-enhanced courses for both undergraduate and graduate nursing students at the University at Buffalo School of Nursing. Active learning strategies are incorporated that use the WWW, videoconferencing, streaming video, web-based examinations, interactive PowerPoint presentations, and a myriad of other technology applications. I am also conducting research using the application of Perry’s Model of Moral and Intellectual Development in the College Years to student nurses’ adoption of technology applications.

While working toward the development of an education focused research program, I began to examine the idea of data mining, databases and the use of the huge date repositories available to me at a local Managed Care Organization (MCO). I am working with the data that can be mined from the MCOs data rich repository of claims information. I will be able to access information that can be used to determine the relationship of cost (return on investment and/or return on expenditure), and satisfaction to the use of nursing interventions [education focused] that are the core of disease management programs.

Scott Erdley

I have been a Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, and affiliated with the Patient Simulation Center, used by the Nurse Anesthesia and Acute Care NP Programs, since 2000. I received my Doctorate of Nursing Science from the School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. I am also an alumnus of the School of Nursing having earned my B.S.N. and M.S. in 1989 and 1993, respectively. Recently I participated as a fellow in the Medical Informatics (MBL/NLM) Course held at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (Spring 2002). My interests and activities, with healthcare informatics, are currently in the areas of nursing information, information seeking, the use of high-fidelity simulation in education and health care informatics, and portable/personal digital devices. I manage several listservs including the Nrsing-l, the first list dedicated to nursing informatics. I have taught classes about health care informatics as well as the intersection of technology and care in acute care environments to undergraduate and graduate students.

M. Harland Love

M. Harland Love is currently an Implementation Manager for iKnowMed, a division of US Oncology.

His interests have always been in adapting technology to the workplace. For example, when he began his nursing career, he was the first in his unit to use a PDA; a year later they were in common use.

Today he is facilitating the transfer of patient workflows from paper to electronic technologies. He travels to physician clinics across the country where he first analyzes patient movements and recordkeeping systems. He then implements Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software to replace paper records.

Mr. Love has a BS in Kinesiology from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and a BSN degree from East Tennessee State University (honors in discipline). He spent his early nursing career in hospital ERs in Tennessee, North Carolina, and California. He is also a Certified Emergency Nurse. He has is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and received the East Tennessee State University Faculty award and N.U.R.S.E center Directors Award. He was a poster presenter at the National League for Nursing Education Summit in 2002.