For her efforts to promote the use of information technology to enhance nursing care in Canada and abroad.
Kathryn Hannah is a pioneer in the field of nursing informatics in Canada. As an academic and a health care administrator, she has published foundational works and created practical applications of information technology to improve nursing practice. She was instrumental in the development of data standards that track the care of patients, which has allowed doctors and nurses to measure patient outcomes and which has provided governments with data to influence health policy. She also contributed to setting international standards in terminology, facilitating the comparison of nursing data across populations, settings and time.