Rate My Professor Kim Powell

Kimberly R. Powell, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FAAN, is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing. She holds a PhD and graduate certificate in health policy from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (2017), an MSN from Spalding University, and a BSN from Purdue University. Powell previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Nursing, and completed a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing, where she contributed to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant examining information technology adoption in nursing homes and its impact on quality measures. Her program of research focuses on health information technology and gerontology, specifically health data sharing with providers, patients, and informal caregivers using patient portals, text messaging applications, health information exchange, and telehealth to enhance care coordination and reduce avoidable hospitalizations for nursing home residents, particularly those with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

As principal investigator, Powell has obtained major funding, including a $1,021,343 R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging (2022-2025) titled 'Reducing Avoidable Nursing Home-to-Hospital Transfers of Residents with ADRD: An Analysis of Interdisciplinary Team Communication using Text Messages,' and the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators (2024-2027, $449,000) for 'Enhancing Dementia Care: Bridging the Rural Gap with Telehealth.' She was inducted as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (2024) and holds Fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing. Additional honors include the Harriet H. Werley Award (2022) for a paper on telehealth informatics, Best Paper in Health Information Management (2021), Research Spotlight Award from the University of Tennessee (2019), and Outstanding Dissertation Award from Sigma Theta Tau (2017). Select publications are 'A Survey of Technology Abandonment in US Nursing Homes' (Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2024), 'An Evaluation of Telehealth Expansion in U.S. Nursing Homes' (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2021), 'Health Data Sharing in US Nursing Homes: A Mixed Methods Study' (Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2021), and 'Patient-Perceived Facilitators of and Barriers to Electronic Portal Use: A Systematic Review' (CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2017). Powell's scholarship influences nursing informatics, gerontechnology, and long-term care quality improvement.