Marion J.Ball is Senior Advisor, Research Industry Specialist, Healthcare Informatics, IBM Research. She is Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Affiliate Professor, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Marion Ball is an international innovator, educator, author, and leader with over thirty-five years of experience in the healthcare IT community. Dr. Ball is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and serves on the National Library of Medicine’s Board of Regents. She is a founding board member of the Health on the Net (HON). She has served on the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Board, and has served as President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), the International Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Ball has twice served on the board of the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME). In 2004, she was elected to the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Board, where she served for three years. She served from 2003-2007 as a member of the American Health Information Management Association/ Foundation of Record Education (AHIMA/FORE) Board. From 2007-2009, she served on the Advisory Council for the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, and most recently has been in vited to serve on the International Advisory Committee for the China Hospital Information Management Association (CHIMA). She is a visionary in the field of health informatics and has worked in the federal, academic, and private sectors, and has published some of the core texts in the field of health informatics. Two of her latest book published in 2015 and 2016 are entitled "Health Information Management Systems: Cases, Strategies, and Solutions "(4th Edition) and the second edition of "The History Of Medical Informstics In the United States" S In addition, her book "Consumer Informatics" received the Book-of-the-Year Award at the HIMSS National Convention in Dallas, Texas in February 2005. In January 2015 she published, "Introduction to Nursing Informatics," 4th Edition . In 2007, she was a coeditor of Aspects of Electronic Health Record Systems in the series entitled Health Informatics and the 4th Edition of Nursing Informatics: Where Technology and Caring Meet was published January 2011. There are now over 65 volumes in the series published by Springer-Verlag. Previous editions of her nursing books have been translated into Portuguese and Chinese, Japanese, German, Korean, and Polish. Dr. Ball has received numerous academic, national and international awards for her contributions to the field of health informatics. She is the recipient of such coveted awards as the Morris F. Collen Lifetime Achievement Award from ACMI/ AMIA, the Award of Excellence—a lifetime achievement award from International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), and the Distinguished Service Award from AHIMA. Dr. Ball was selected as one of the 50 most influential IT professionals by HIMSS over the last 50 years. This was documented in the HIMSS publication HIMSS 50 in 50, debuted at the HIMSS Annual 50th Anniversary Meeting in February 2011. She is an honorary member of Sigma Theta Tau International and was inducted as an Honorary Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). Most recently, she was invited to serve as an International Advisor to the Board of the China Hospital Information Management Association (CHIMA) and was given the Lifetime Membership Award by HIMSS for 30 years of service and major contributions to the field of health informatics. Dr. Ball is Professor Emerita at Johns Hopkins University in the School of Nursing and is currently an affiliate Professor in the Division of Health Sciences Informatics in the school of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She is also an affiliate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County as well as holding an appointment at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. As an educator and speaker, Dr. Ball has led workshops and lectured on various aspects of health informatics worldwide. She has dedicated much of her career to the field of Nursing Informatics and is a founding member of the TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) Foundation initiative which addresses the importance of integrating the most current enabling technologies into the nursing profession from bedside practitioners to researchers. TIGER has moved into the inter-disciplinary environment and as of 2014 is part of the HIMSS Foundation. Most recently, she has concentrated on patient safety, process engineering, and change management, and clinical point of care initiatives in healthcare. Dr. Ball works both nationally and internationally on patient safety, nursing, the electronic health record, and point of care initiatives. Dr. Ball has written and edited 27 books and over 200 journal publications and book chapters.