Marion Ball
From Rutgers Medical Informatics History Project
Name: Marion J. Ball, EdD
Elected ACMI Fellow: 1984, Morris Collen Award 2002
Birthdate:
Degrees: MA University of Kentucky 1965, Ed.D. Temple University 1978
Current Position: Senior Advisor, Healthcare and Life Sciences Institute, IBM Research
Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Faculty Member, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Current email: marionball@us.ibm.com
Professional Affiliations: Member, Institute of Medicine; Board of Regents, NLM; Lifetime member, IMIA; Fellow, AAN; member, Sigma Theta Tau
Professional Activities: President, IMIA,1992-1995; Founder, Health on the Net Foundation; Editor, Health Informatics Series
Honors and Awards: IMIA Medical Informatics Award of Excellence 2010; HIMSS Book of the Year award for Application and Strategies in Cyber Health Care, 2005; Member, IOM 1996; AMIA President's Award 1995, 2000; Computers in Healthcare Pioneer Award, 1992; Fellow NSF, 1980
Other Works:
Other Information:
Curriculum Vitae: HIPConsulting CV
Selected Publications:
A study of three types of medical organizations involved in continuing medical education / (1978 ) Ball, Marion Jokl. Thesis (Ed.D.)--Temple University, 1978. The Case for Using Computers in the Operating Room Ball, Marion J. Douglas, Judith V. Warnock-Matheron, Ann Hannah, Kathryn J. The largest cost center and revenue generator in most hospitals, the operating room is subject t o demands for increased cost accountability and... Integrating the Use of Interactive Videodisc Technology into the Dental Curriculum Craig, James F. Plotkin, Jeffrey I. Ball, Marion J. In spite of the variety of uses historically made of educational and information technology in d ental education, the specific use of computer and... Hospital Information Systems as We Enter the Decade of the 80's Ball, Marion J. Jacobs, Stanley E. This paper will address the findings of a recent survey conducted by Marion J. Ball, Ed.D. and S tanley E. Jacobs, Ph.D. Department of Pathology Computer Systems in Transition—the Past, the Present, the Future O'Desky, Robert I. Ball, Marion J. Since the early 1960's a potpourri of vendors and institutions have attempted to implement computer technology in Pathology Department applications.... The Clinical Pathology Laboratory and its Relationship to a Hospital Information System Ball, Marion J. The Case for Using Computers in the Operating Room Ball, Marion J. Douglas, Judith V. Warnock-Matheron, Ann Hannah, Kathryn J. The largest cost center and revenue generator in most hospitals, the operating room is subject t o demands for increased cost accountability and... Introduction—Nonclinical Utilization of Data Bases Ball, Marion J. Proposed requirements and procedures for admission of nurses to Keene Teachers College and two... (1960) Ball, Marion S. Typescript (carbon copy). Thesis (M. Ed.)--Keene State College, 1960. Includes bibliographical r eferences (leaves 33-34). Ball MJ, Costin MY, Lehmann C. The personal health record: consumers banking on their health. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2008;134:35-46. Review. Ball MJ. Changing systems means changing behaviors. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:1178. Ball MJ, Bierstock S. Clinician use of enabling technology: creating a new healthcare system through the use of enabling technologies requires changes on a profound scale. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2007 Summer;21(3):68-71. Ball MJ, Smith C, Bakalar RS. Personal health records: empowering consumers. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2007 Winter;21(1):76-86. Ball MJ, Merryman T, Lehmann CU. Patient safety: a tale of two institutions. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2006 Fall;20(4):26-34. Ball MJ, Gold J. Banking on health: Personal records and information exchange. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2006 Spring;20(2):71-83. Ball MJ, Wieners W. Nurses: critical members of the IT team. Healthc Inform. 2006 Feb;23(2):74, 76. Rothschild AS, Dietrich L, Ball MJ, Wurtz H, Farish-Hunt H, Cortes-Comerer N. Leveraging systems thinking to design patient-centered clinical documentation systems. Int J Med Inform. 2005 Jun;74(5):395-8. Epub 2005 Apr 25. Ball MJ. Nursing informatics of tomorrow. One of nurses' new roles will be agents of change in the healthcare revolution. Healthc Inform. 2005 Feb;22(2):74, 76, 78. Ball MJ, Cortes-Comerer N, Costin M, Hudson K, Augustine B. HCA Inc.: standardization in action. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2004 Spring;18(2):59-63. Ball MJ, Farish-Hunt H. Standards at center stage. Safe, efficient care delivery depends on standardization. Healthc Inform. 2003 Nov;20(11):52-4. Ball MJ. Hospital information systems: perspectives on problems and prospects, 1979 and 2002. Int J Med Inform. 2003 Mar;69(2-3):83-9. Ball MJ, Weaver C, Abbott PA. Enabling technologies promise to revitalize the role of nursing in an era of patient safety. Int J Med Inform. 2003 Jan;69(1):29-38. Review. Silva JS, Ball MJ. Prognosis for year 2013. Int J Med Inform. 2002 Nov 20;66(1-3):45-9. Ball MJ, Douglas JV. IT, patient safety, and quality care. J Healthc Inf Manag. 2002 Winter;16(1):28-33. Review. Ball, Marion J., Ed.D. Wieners, Walter W., "Experts Corner: Spanning the Globe" Healthcare Informatics, Minneapolis, MN. April, 2006. Ball, Marion J., Ed.D. Wieners, Walter W., "Nurses: Critical Members of the IT Team" Healthcare Informatics, Minneapolis, MN. February, 2006.
Books
Main title: Aspects of the computer-based patient record / Marion J.
Ball, Morris F. Collen, editors.
Published/Created: New York : Springer-Verlag, c1992.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Collen, Morris F. (Morris Frank), 1913-
Description: xxv, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0387977236 (Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg :
acid-free paper)
3540977236 (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York :
acid-free paper)
Main title: Consumer informatics : applications and strategies in cyber
health care / Rosemary Nelson, Marion J. Ball, editors.
Published/Created: New York : Springer, c2004.
Related names: Nelson, Rosemary.
Ball, Marion J.
Description: xix, 166 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0387404147 (alk. paper)
Main title: Dental informatics : strategic issues for the dental
profession / J.J. Salley, J.L. Zimmerman, M.J. Ball
(eds.)
Published/Created: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1990.
Related names: Salley, John J.
Zimmerman, John L.
Ball, Marion J.
Description: x, 101 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 3540527591 : $22.50
Main title: Healthcare information management systems : a practical
guide / Marion J. Ball ... [et al.], editors.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Published/Created: New York : Springer-Verlag, c1995.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Description: xvi, 358 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 038794477X (alk. paper)
Main title: Healthcare information management systems : a practical
guide / Marion J. Ball ... [et al.], editors.
Published/Created: New York : Springer-Verlag, c1991.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Description: xviii, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0387974342
3540974342
Main title: Healthcare information management systems : cases,
strategies, and solutions / Marion J. Ball, Charlotte A.
Weaver, Joan M. Kiel, editors.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Published/Created: New York : Springer, c2004.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Weaver, Charlotte A.
Kiel, Joan M.
Description: xxviii, 586 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0387408053 (alk. paper)
Main title: Nursing informatics : where caring and technology meet /
M.J. Ball ... [et al.], editors ; foreword by Salah H.
Mandil.
Edition: 2nd ed
Published/Created: New York : Springer-Verlag, c1995.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Description: xix, 452 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0387944761 (alk. paper)
Main title: Nursing informatics : where caring and technology meet /
Marion J. Ball ... [et al.], editors.
Published/Created: New York : Springer-Verlag, c1988.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Description: xxv, 418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0387966390
Main title: Nursing informatics : where caring and technology meet /
Marion J. Ball ... [et al.] editors ; forewords by Sue
Karen Donaldson and Ulla Gerdin.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Published/Created: New York : Springer, c2000.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Description: xx, 445 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0387989234 (hard cover : acid-free paper)
Main title: Nursing informatics : where technology and caring meet /
Marion J. Ball ... [et al.], (editors).
Edition: 4th ed.
Published/Created: London ; New York : Springer, c2011.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Hannah, Kathryn J. Introduction to nursing informatics.
Description: xxxi, 482 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781849962773 (alk. paper)
1849962774 (alk. paper)
9781849962780 (e-ISBN)
1849962782 (e-ISBN)
Main title: Performance improvement through information management :
health care's bridge to success / Marion J. Ball, Judith
V. Douglas, editors ; with a foreword by John G. King.
Published/Created: New York : Springer, c1999.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Douglas, Judith V.
Description: xvi, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0387984526 (alk. paper)
Main title: Strategies and technologies for healthcare information :
theory into practice / Marion J. Ball, Judith V.
Douglas, David E. Garets, editors ; foreword by Larry D.
Grandia.
Published/Created: New York : Springer, c1999.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Douglas, Judith V.
Garets, David E.
Description: xvii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0387984429 (acid-free paper)
Personal name: Ball, Marion J.
Main title: How to select a computerized hospital information system,
compiled and edited by Marion J. Ball.
Published/Created: Basel, New York, S. Karger, 1973.
Description: 77 p. illus. 31 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Hospitals--Administration--Data processing.
Information storage and retrieval systems--Hospitals.
Series: Data processing in medicine, v. 2
Personal name: Ball, Marion J.
Main title: Selecting a computer system for the clinical laboratory, by
Marion J. Ball. With forewords by Paul R. Finley and
Elemer R. Gabrieli.
Published/Created: Springfield, Ill., Thomas [1971]
Description: xi, 115 p. illus. 29 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 107-115.
Personal name: Ball, Marion J.
Main title: Using computers in nursing / Marion J. Ball, Kathryn J.
Hannah, with the assistance of James D. Browne.
Published/Created: Reston, Va. : Reston Pub. Co., c1984.
Related names: Hannah, Kathryn J.
Browne, James D.
Description: xv, 303 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0835981304 : $20.00
0835981290 (pbk.) : $14.95
Personal name: Ball, Marion J.
Main title: What is a computer? By Marion J. Ball, with the assistance
of Nancy Levy. Illustrated by Barbara A. Heisler.
Published/Created: [Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1972]
Related names: Heisler, Barbara A., illus.
Description: 92 p. illus. 28 cm.
ISBN: 0395137721
Personal name: Hannah, Kathryn J.
Main title: Introduction to nursing informatics / Kathryn J. Hannah,
Marion J. Ball, Margaret J.A. Edwards.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Published/Created: New York : Springer, c2006.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Edwards, Margaret J. A.
Description: xiv, 366 p. : ill. cm.
ISBN: 9780387260969
038726096X
Personal name: Hannah, Kathryn J.
Main title: Introduction to nursing informatics / Kathryn J. Hannah,
Marion J. Ball, Margaret J.A. Edwards.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Published/Created: New York : Springer, c1999.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Edwards, Margaret J. A.
Description: xv, 354 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0387984518 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Personal name: Hannah, Kathryn J.
Main title: Introduction to nursing informatics / Kathryn J. Hannah,
Marion J. Ball, Margaret J.A. Edwards.
Published/Created: New York : Springer-Verlag, c1994.
Related names: Ball, Marion J.
Edwards, Margaret J. A.
Related titles: Nursing informatics.
Description: xii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0387979832 (New York : acid-free paper)
3540979832 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
Healthcare Information Management Systems: Cases, Strategies, and
Solutions (Health Informatics) by Marion J. Ball, Charlotte Weaver and
Joan Kiel (Paperback - Dec 1, 2010)
Consumer Informatics: Applications and Strategies in Cyber Health Care
(Health Informatics) by Rosemary Nelson and Marion J. Ball (Kindle
Edition - Jan 8, 2004) - Kindle eBook
Cancer Informatics: Essential Technologies for Clinical Trials (Health
Informatics) by John S. Silva, Marion J. Ball, Christopher G. Chute
and Judith V. Douglas (Jan 8, 2002) - Kindle eBook
Performance Improvement Through Information Management: Health Care's
Bridge to Success by Marion J. Ball, Judith V. Douglas and J.G. King
(Dec 21, 1998) - Kindle eBook
Nursing Informatics: Where Technology and Caring Meet (Health
Informatics) by Marion J. Ball, Judith V. Douglas, Patricia Hinton
Walker and Donna DuLong (Dec 24, 2010)
Nursing Informatics: Where Caring and Technology Meet (Health
Informatics) by Marion J. Ball, Kathryn J. Hannah, Susan K. Newbold
and Judith V. Douglas (Mar 30, 2000)
Advancing Federal Sector Health Care: A Model for Technology Transfer
(Health Informatics) by Peter Ramsaroop, Marion J. Ball, David
Beaulieu and Judith V. Douglas (Dec 6, 2010)
Computers in Private Practice Management by Byron B. Oberst, John
M. Long and Marion J. Ball (Aug 5, 1987)
Strategies and Technologies for Healthcare Information: Theory Into
Practice by Marion J. Ball, Judith V. Douglas, David E. Garets and
L.D. Grandia (Jun 3, 1999)
Contemporary Authors: Biography - Ball, Marion J(okl) (1940-) (Mar 8,
2005)
What Is a Computer? (Houghton Mifflin Modern Mathematics Series) by
Marion J. Ball and Barbara A. Heisler (Jun 1972)
Using Computers in Nursing by Marion J. Ball (Jun 1984)
Nursing Informatics: Where Caring and Technology Meet (Computers in
Health Care) by Marion J. Ball and etc. (Oct 1992)
Additional Media:
Sources:
[http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/bio/2010/index.shtml?ball
IBM Biography]
w-three.com publications
http://www.amia.org/staff/eshortliffe/docs/frontmatter.pdf
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dr.+Marion+J.+Ball.-a0173925411
http://magazine.nursing.jhu.edu/?s=marion+ball
