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2005, International Journal of Medical Informatics
2000
Summary Objective: The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on revising the existing international recommendations in health informatics / medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course tracks or even complete programs in this field, to further develop existing educational activities in the various nations and to support international initiatives concerning education in biomedical and health informatics (BMHI),
OBJECTIVE: This paper presents the development of medical informatics education during the years from the establishment of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) until today. METHOD: A search in the literature was performed using search engines and appropriate keywords as well as a manual selection of papers. The search covered English language papers and was limited to search on papers title and abstract only. RESULTS: The aggregated papers were analyzed on the basis of the subject area, origin, time span, and curriculum development, and conclusions were drawn. CONCLUSIONS: From the results, it is evident that IMIA has played a major role in comparing and integrating the Biomedical and Health Informatics educational efforts across the different levels of education and the regional distribution of educators and institutions. A large selection of references is presented facilitating future work on the field of education in biomedical and health informatics.
... Few, if any scientific discipline achieved such enormous and rapid development, improvement and implementation in healthcare practice as it is case with medical informatics. Although a relatively young scientific field of biomedicine its achievements significantly improve all of health care its segments at any level in any health care system in any country of the world. In just a few decades of the last century, Medical Informatics entered all forms of education and medical practice. For its achievements and its application in practice are meritorious many persons and events. One cannot deny their immeasurable impact on scientific trends in biomedicine, but also to the social development in general. Some of the historical trends seem to resemble the uncontrollable events that shape the people that we then referred to as the famous, in one way or another.Famous people over the centuries and decades started a heavy wheel of scientific history and their actions should be remembered as a boon, and their personalities should emerge in full light as historical monoliths. For the unenlightened the history is a collection of true legends and collection of recognizable characters, and if it does not exist, or it is briefly described, then these characters are not recognized. Medical informatics is a rare scientific discipline to which are linked numerous events and numerous characters whose work is recognized almost everywhere and in every place within educational and healthcare institutions. Unfortunately, these figures and their findings hardly anyone knows in more details. The book we have in front of us is a significant contribution to better knowledge about persons and events related to Medical Informatics and its pillars, which they raised and whose foundations still stand strong...
2001, Journal of The American Medical Informatics Association
2004, International Journal of Medical Informatics
2004, Journal of The American Medical Informatics Association
2011, EJBI
This article proposes a definition of the field of Health and Biomedical Informatics, in line with recent international developments. According to the authors, there are several myths or misconception concerning the future development of this scientific and ...
In today’s healthcare environment, communication and information technologies have made the delivery of nursing care more challenging, diverse, and complex. Due to the economy, policies to protect consumers and users, emerging diseases, workforce shortage, care delivery models, and globalization, there are many considerable changes in the practice of nursing informatics. As forecast by Hannah and Ball in the 3rd Edition of Where Caring and Technology Meet, nurses have become primary users in information technology, and nurses have also taken a leading role in the development, implementation, and evaluation of healthcare systems.
2013, Yearbook of medical informatics
To present the importance of Evidence-based Health Informatics (EBHI) and the ethical imperative of this approach; to highlight the work of the IMIA Working Group on Technology Assessment and Quality Improvement and the EFMI Working Group on Assessment of Health Information Systems; and to introduce the further important evaluation and evidence aspects being addressed. Reviews of IMIA, EFMA and other initiatives, together with literature reviews on evaluation methods and on published systematic reviews. Presentation of the rationale for the health informatics domain to adopt a scientific approach by assessing impact, avoiding harm, and empirically demonstrating benefit and best use; reporting of the origins and rationale of the IMIA- and EQUATOR-endorsed Statement on Reporting of Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics (STARE-HI) and of the IMIA WG's Guideline for Good Evaluation Practice in Health Informatics (GEP-HI); presentation of other initiatives for objective evaluation...
2010, Acta Paulista de Enfermagem
2004, International Journal of Medical Informatics
2020, EFMI Inside
2020, EFMI Inside Newsletter
2005, International Journal of Medical Informatics
2014, International Journal of Nursing and Health Science
2009
2009, Acta Informatica Medica
2012
2011
2011, Yearbook of medical informatics
To celebrate over 30 years of health information systems' (HIS) evolution by bringing together pioneers in the field, members of the next generation of leaders, and government officials from several developing nations in Africa to discuss the past, present, and future of HISs. Participants gathered in Le Franschhoek, South Africa for a 2 1/2 day working conference consisting of scientific presentations followed by several concurrent breakout sessions. A small writing group prepared draft statements representing their positions on various topics of discussion which were circulated and revised by the entire group. Many new tools, techniques and technologies were described and discussed in great detail. Interestingly, all of the key themes identified in the first HIS meeting held over 30 years ago are still of vital importance today: Patient Centered design, Clinical User Support, Real-time Education, Human-computer Factors and Measuring Clinical User Performance, Meaningful use. A...
2007, International Journal of Medical Informatics
2009, Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
Yearbook of medical informatics
Medical Informatics (MI) is an emerging discipline with a high need of trained and skillful professionals. To describe the educational experience of the Department of Health Informatics of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. A descriptive study of the development of the Medical Informatics Residency Program (MIRP) and the e-learning courses related to medical informatics. A four-year MIRP with 15 rotations was started in 2000, and was awarded national educational accreditation. Eight residents have been fully trained and their main academic contributions are shown in this study. The e-learning courses related to medical informatics (Healthcare Management, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Information Retrieval, Computer Literacy started, 10x10 Spanish version and HL7 introductory course) started in 2006 and were followed by more than 2266 students from all over the world, with an increase trend in foreign students. These educational activities have produced skilled human resources fo...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
2014, Acta Informatica Medica
2007, International Journal of Medical Informatics
2007, Avicena, Sarajevo
2015, MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health
This is a methodological study and technological production that aims to describe the development of a computerized system of nursing care quality indicators for the Intensive Care Unit. The study population consisted of a systems analyst and fifteen critical care nurses. For the development of the system we adopted some of the best practices of the Unified Process methodology using the Unified Modeling Language and the programming language Java Enterprise Edition 7. The system consists of an access menu with the following functions: Home (presents general information), New Record (records the indicator), Record (record search), Census (add information and indicators of the patient), Report (generates report of the indicators) and Annex (accesses the Braden Scale). This information system allows for measurement of the quality of nursing care and to evaluate patient safety in intensive care unit by monitoring quality indicators in nursing.
2011, BMJ Open
2007
2012, Nursing Outlook
2000
The context for nursing informatics research has changed significantly since the National Institute of Nursing Research-funded Nursing Informatics Re- search Agenda was published in 1993 and the Delphi study of nursing informatics research priorities re- ported a decade ago. The authors focus on 3 specific aspects of context—genomic health care, shifting research paradigms, and social (Web 2.0) technolo- gies—that must
hospitalitaliano.org.ar
services in improving the physical and mental health of patients is very effective. Their role is so important that in developing countries with doctor’s domination or shortage of physicians, to many people, nursing care is very effective in continuity of health care [1,2]. In general, it must be acknowledged that in nearly all countries of the world, both developing
2011, Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
bSoriyan Hettie Abimbola and cOlaogun Adenike
2013
Europe faces significant challenges to its health 5 and care services due to demographic change, being at the beginning of a large and continuing rise in the number and proportion of older citizens, while advances in healthcare mean that an increasing number of these and other adults will have enduring chronic health conditions. But for all citizens with actual or potential health problems, the maintenance of optimal health depends not just on healthcare services, but on support for nutrition, hygiene, mobility and shopping, socialisation, warm dry housing and other aspects of daily living, as without these health will be compromised and deteriorate. This demand surge is happening at a time when Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are increasingly being used in other service sectors to enable consumer customisation and better resource management. An objective for all health systems, and for patients, is to minimise hospital stays and maximise care at home, but hitherto the practical need to observe the patient’s state of health has extended hospital stays. Similarly there is a drive to minimise – for quality of life and economic reasons – admission to long-term institutional care and instead extend support to enable living at home. Traditionally any support needed by an individual has normally been provided by family members, often assisted by the local community, while social services have been the fall-back provider when the family cannot support, either by direct provision or by mobilising specific services such as delivered hot meals. Housing agencies and other bodies have also had an important role. However, other demographic changes are significantly reducing the capacity of families to provide daily ongoing support. This means that health services are increasingly providing long-term monitoring and support to those living with chronic disease and frailty, while social services are increasingly needed to provide ongoing support. Many individual citizens are necessarily in receipt of both health and social care support, yet in all but a very few European countries these services are provided quite independently one from another, with minimal day to day liaison. A number of drivers for change are now necessitating significant change, and the social sciences have a key role to play in enabling successful progress. At a macro level, across Europe the combination of the economic downturn and the demographic-led increase in demand means that health and social care services are under ever increasing pressures, while constant growth of services is not affordable nor will the labour market support ever continuing expansion. 6 Meanwhile, at citizen and societal levels two further and partially interlinked drivers are operating, but much less uniformly or equitably in their potential or their effects. The first is a general increase in consumer awareness of achievable personalised service standards, and availability of information both from service providers and from social and comparison sites and social networks as to reasonable expectations. Strong examples come from the holiday and civil aviation sectors, banking and insurance, and the retail sector including home shopping. No longer do consumers in general meekly accept what is offered, but instead seek what they desire from what they themselves can find out is available, related to published professionally set standards and from comparison of providers, and increasingly they are starting to expect a similar approach in the health and social care sectors. The second, and enabling, driver, is the rise in e-services and mobile devices, ranging from personalised monitoring devices, smart phone applications and service provider customer portals, through to the global unorganised but powerful knowledge base of the Internet. There are specific evidence sources on health and care matters, consumer-orientated and disease-specific internet sites, and a variety of blogs and chat rooms – the great majority helpful and well-intentioned, though with the ever-present risk of malevolent presences too. This paper presents the case for systematic research activity in the social sciences, at European and national levels, to further the interlinked citizen- focused objectives of: • close integration at delivery level of health care and social care support of individual’s health, • personalisation of care delivery including reasonable accommodation of individual choice, • ensuring effective use of ICT applications based on user acceptability, • bringing processes of consent, delegation, representation, coordination and privacy into the electronic era, • ensuring respect for and teamwork with formal carers and the informal care team, • ensuring equity in an electronic era regardless of digital literacy, assets and connectivity, • examining stable and sustainable models of trusted infrastructure provision, • establishing governance, authentication, management, and sustainability principles. These are important research areas to ensure good delivery of services to people. They complement, and are as important as, health sciences research and health technology research including informatics research, since if the services do not reach the patient they do not have any effect.