The TIGER Initiative: A Call to Accept and Pass the Baton.

The article focuses on the emergence of the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) initiative to respond to the health information technology (HIT) changes in health care in the U.S. It notes that the initiative is centered on informatics tools and practices to enable nurses to make health care safer, patient centered, and efficient. It stresses the need for nursing executives to see nursing informatics and technology as core support to nursing functions and decision making.