Biography

Emily Boyce specializes in nursing informatics — a burgeoning field that studies ways to leverage nursing science, patient data, and computer algorithms to improve the communication, understanding, and management of medical information. Her expertise includes systems needs analysis, determining user requirements, clinical decision support, standards and structured terminologies, systems selection, systems implementation and training, data analytics, and process improvement projects.

Boyce, who joined the UNLV School of Nursing in 2023 as an associate professor-in-residence, brings over 20 years of experience in clinical, leadership, and academic settings. She is board-certified as a nurse executive and informatics nurse specialist by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). 

Boyce has held leadership roles for a large hospital system where she was responsible for ensuring optimal documentation and integrity of electronic health records, as well as facilitating the implementation, improvement, development, and acceptance of various healthcare technology tools. Her clinical experience culminated at the bedside, working in neurology/neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The former nursing school associate dean also has experience in critical care.

She is a member of many professional organizations including the American Nurses Association and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.