Dr. Ball is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, has serves on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). She also serves on a variety of boards in the area of health information technology, including serving as President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), and has served as a board member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), and Co-Chaired the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Board. She received the Morris F. Collen Lifetime Achievement Award from ACMI/AMIA, and is an honorary member of Sigma Theta Tau, the Honor Society of Nursing, and the Medical Library Association (MLA), and is an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) . She received the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Award of Excellence, a Lifetime Achievement award. In 2011, she was selected as one of the 50 most influential IT professionals over the last 50 years by HIMSS, and elected to the IBM Industry Academy. She was awarded the Lifetime Membership Award in HIMSS, in recognition of her 30 years of service and major contributions to the field of healthcare informatics. She is the author/editor of 27 books and over 230 articles in the field of Health Informatics. Her book, Consumer Informatics, received a HIMSS Book-of-the-Year Award. Several of her books have been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Korean, and Polish. She is the co author The History of Medical Informatics in the United States with Dr. Morrie Collen as well as the 4th Edition of Healthcare Information Management Systems now being prepared for it's 5th edition.