Eleanor Hunt is a 2002 MSN alum of the Duke Nursing Informatics program.   She has ten years direct care clinical experience in acute care and home care, fifteen years informatics experience in acute and ambulatory care, and has been board certified in Nursing Informatics since 1998.   Ellie's informatics roles include software design and implementation of CPOE at Yale-New Haven Hospital, independent consulting in nursing informatics, and ambulatory electronic health records design in R&D at Misys Healthcare Systems.   Ellie's current role has her working in ambulatory care, working with nurses and physicians to design better software for use at the point of care.   Ellie is also on the steering committee of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics.  Ellie is a prolific author with many publications, including a book she co-authored with 2 other Duke Nursing Informatics alumni entitled   "Nursing Informatics Implementation Guide" published by Springer-Verlag in the Healthcare Informatics series (2004).

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Tess Settergren has been a registered nurse since 1978, has over 12 years of informatics experience, and is board-certified by the ANCC in Nursing Informatics (1997).  She earned a Master of Arts Degree in Nursing (CNS) from the College of St. Scholastica (1994), and a Master’s in Healthcare Administration from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (2002).  Tess has been the co-founder and President of the MInnesota Nursing INformatics Group (MINING) since 2000, and serves on the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) Governing Board.   As the Director for Clinical Informatics at SMDC Health System, she currently directs the Information Services teams responsible for applications that touch patients and/or patient data, from registration to billing and ancillary applications, to the implementation of the enterprise electronic health record at 3 hospitals (total 570 beds + 46 bassinets) and 18 regional clinics (380 physicians + 250 credentialed providers) as well as home care and hospice.