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PubMed1997

Expanding nursing informatics knowledge through cirriculum development: a collaborative faculty practice model.

In 1992 an informatics faculty practice model was implemented between a major teaching hospital and a Melbourne university. This arrangement was characterised by the provision of a mutually beneficial exchange of experiences and information between the participant clinician and academic. By using such a conjoint faculty practice model it has been found that many informatics problems can be addressed. Over the past three years the model has been evaluated through a longitudinal study. Investigations have included monitoring curriculum change, program evaluation and evaluation of participant professional outcomes. Survey results are presented and the specific elements that have made this model successful are described.

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PubMed1998

Exploring factors required for successful implementation of healthcare informatics.

This paper examines factors that are essential for a successful implementation of healthcare informatics in professional curricula. These factors are related to the design framework of the learning materials that have been developed as a part of a Dutch model curriculum of healthcare informatics. Next some ideas and suggestions for a successful implementation are presented.

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PubMed1998

Nursing informatics education for advanced nursing practice.

This paper describes how nursing informatics content will be integrated into the education of Advanced Nursing Practitioners at Masters level. Changes in health care, especially the need to deliver evidence based nursing care and the growing amount of health data, information and knowledge, require well educated Advanced Nurse Practitioners to lead the nursing profession. The nursing informatics content for this level of nursing education is described and compared with national and international curriculum guidelines, including Nightingale work.

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PubMed1998

Health informatics education for undergraduates: teaching experiences with multi media.

In a global information society all students regardless of discipline need to have or acquire basic computing and information literacy skills. The Faculty of Health Science at the Central Queensland University now includes a compulsory and introductory course in Health Informatics at the undergraduate level for all its first year students to meet these educational needs for the future health industry workforce. This paper describes the teacher and student lived experiences encountered throughout the concurrent use of a variety of delivery modes to teach an introductory unit of health informatics to this varied student population. It will include a discussion about the unit itself, educational philosophy adopted, strengths and weaknesses of the technologies and delivery methods adopted and the results of the student evaluation.

Computer User Training↗
PubMed1998

The director of medical informatics: a new physician leader for IT initiatives.

Integrated delivery systems (IDSs) recently have invested substantial financial resources in information technology (IT) initiatives. But the return on that investment for many IDSs in terms of improved productivity and reduced costs has been less than anticipated. Therefore, to improve or enhance the success of IT initiatives, some IDSs have sought to encourage more physician support of such efforts by creating a new executive position--director of medical informatics--designed to be filled by physician leaders who have knowledge and skill in managing information systems. The director of medical informatics, who typically reports to the CEO or CIO, coordinates IT initiatives that address physician concerns and promotes physician buy-in.

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PubMed1998

Health and nursing informatics education.

In Europe, coordinated activities in healthcare informatics education started in the late 1980's with the establishment of European Courses in Health Telematics. At the same time the European Commission foresaw the need for spreading the knowledge of IT in the Healthcare Sector. Therefore the EC, since then, have supported the initiatives that aim to create awareness, stimulate diffusion, educate and train the users (healthcare professionals) in the application of Information Technology to the Healthcare Sector. Such initiatives are the NIGHTINGALE project, which is an essential project in the planning and implementation of strategy in training the Nursing profession in using and applying healthcare information systems, the IT EDUCTRA project, which is a very practical project in the field of the education and training of the Healthcare Professionals in Information Technologies, and the ERASMUS Master's Course, which is aiming at giving those working, or intending to work in the health service and related activities a broad, advanced postgraduate education in Health Informatics.

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PubMed1998

An analysis of 5 years of medical informatics publications.

This study describes an analysis of 1520 papers that were published in six medical informatics journals from 1992 through 1996, and indexed in NLM's MEDLINE. Of retrieved publications the countries of origin were determined, and insight in the subject of the publication was obtained by analysing the used MeSH terms. The main conclusion is that despite the fact that publications in medical informatics stem from a wide international community, scientific recognition can still not be demonstrated by high impact factors of journals.

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PubMed1998

Problem oriented project work in a distance education program in health informatics.

At Aalborg University, an important part of the distance education program within Health Informatics is problem oriented project work. Traditionally, distance education has been characterized by one-way communication and self study whereas the problem oriented project study form is based on cooperation and dialogue. In this paper, we describe the way in which we have implemented the problem oriented study form in a program within Health Informatics which is based on distance learning. First, we describe the program with regard to student, structure, aim, and activities. Second, we introduce the problem oriented project study form and present the basic principles behind this approach. Third, we explain important concepts and distinctions within the area of distance education. Finally, we describe the way in which we try to put the ideals of the problem oriented project work into practice. The use of a computer conferencing system is essential but in our experience, it is not in itself sufficient to provide the necessary support for the student project work.

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PubMed1998

Health informatics in Canada: a vision for the next millennium.

Around the world, informatics has been cited as a key enabler of health sector reform. Recent reform programs in Canada, reflecting this global consensus, have emphasized the importance of quality information and information technology in achieving their goals. This paper describes the current status of health informatics in Canada and provides a vision for the evolution of Canada's health information infrastructure.

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A model-based context assessment approach for the informatics nurse specialist consultant.

As the number of informatics nurse specialists (INS) has grown, they have become increasingly involved in information system (IS) consultation practice. Their combined clinical and informatics expertise makes these specialists highly marketable and successful IS consultants. As healthcare settings have shifted their IS development toward interdisciplinary-integrated clinical information systems (CIS) that support a patient-focused care continuum, INS have been required to broaden their consultation approaches beyond a domain-specific focus. This article illustrates a model-based context assessment approach that can be used by INS to expand their consultation repertoire.

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PubMed1999

An architecture for bridging between research and practical use in health informatics.

Health informatics is a true interdisciplinary research discipline combining computer engineering, health science and fields dealing with organisation and communication issues. Much of the research published within the area has a common goal: to develop optimal information systems for better access to relevant data, information, and knowledge in the health care sector. As a respond to existing discontinuity between research and practical use, we present an architecture for an interdisciplinary virtual organisation promoting synergy across health informatics environments including research, industry, clinical, and educational settings. A set of key lessons learned from a practical implementation of the architecture are reported.

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PubMed1998

[Teaching of informatics at the Medical School of Comenius University in Bratislava and its evaluation by students].

In this study we analyzed meanings of students about teaching of informatics at our faculty with aim to improve it. They were asked to complete a questionnaire, which contained questions about organization of teaching, programmes and technical equipment. They had also possibility to suggest their improvements. We sorted the students into two groups according to their previous knowledge and experience in working with computers and then analyzed their answers. The results will be taken into account in further teaching of informatics.

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PubMed1999

Actual problems in medical informatics.

Medical informatics has been the first science that connects all traditional medical disciplines, thanking to common information needs and requirements of these disciplines. Its goal is incorporating of information technology into medical praxis, getting medical professionals in touch with capabilities of computer technology and preparing the professionals for the future that belongs to more and more powerful computer technologies. Information as a "crucial" component of medicine is in the focus of each investigation. There are many problems that have to be solved through fundamental investigation: knowledge databases; knowledge structuring problems; joining the different kinds of knowledge; knowledge and representation of decision making process; medical concepts; integration and information and knowledge exchange; education of medical staff; structure and organisation. What kinds of management are the best for application in the field of medical informatics? What are the changes in organisation and structure when computer are used? How to connect education processes in clinical centres, libraries, clinical functions and investigations? In this article author discuss about the theoretical and practical part of the education process on biomedical faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to new curriculum.

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PubMed2000

M.Sc. course in health informatics--an inter-university cooperation success story in Greece.

Health informatics is a recently established and important multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary field that not only involves informatics but also medicine, nursing, engineering, biology and other-related subjects. A co-ordination of this field at a postgraduate level becomes important now in Europe where other European Community programs such as the Telematics for Health Care will require at the Fourth Framework Programme (1994-1999) and the Fifth Framework Programme (2000-2006) adequate human resources of higher potential and knowledge. A European M.Sc. course met all the above objectives. The curriculum was developed according to previous experiences in similar programmes. Recently the course has been organised on the basis of an Inter-University nature with the participation of 5 Greek Universities. The paper aims at providing a description of the new academic programme and a brief evaluation of the implementation phase.

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PubMed2000

Health informatics in the context of user ownership.

Of fundamental importance to the successful implementation of health information systems is the public and professional acceptability of their inclusion in the healthcare process. Surprisingly, the health care sector is embracing the informatics revolution somewhat reluctantly. Even in the areas that progress can be seen and assessed, the rate of change is erratic and inconsistent when compared across the spectrum of health care informatics. The mystery intensifies if one considers the situation in global scale: despite the diversity in approaches and models used, the reluctance perseveres. One can only suspect that there is a common, underlying, reason which slows down the process and forces the whole sector in being reluctant to accept change.

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PubMed2000

Thoughts about curricula in health informatics.

In this contribution it is argued that it is difficult to talk of medical informatics education since the groups that need education in this field are not very homogeneous. Also these groups overlap. WG 1 of IMIA is in the process of producing recommendations for curricula in medical informatics. The target groups are defined by their career type, which is categorised using three axes: discipline, stage of career and level of expertise. An example is given of the knowledge requirements for medical students.

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PubMed2000

Inter-university cooperation for establishing an M.Sc. course in health informatics aims at contributing to users' acceptance of health telematics applications.

Health informatics is a recently established and important multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary field that not only involves informatics but also medicine, nursing, engineering, biology and other-related subjects. A coordination of this field at a postgraduate level becomes important now in Europe where other European Community programs such as the Telematics for Health Care will require at the Fourth Framework Programme (1994-1999) and the Fifth Framework Programme (2000-2006) adequate human resources of higher potential and knowledge. A European M.Sc. course met all the above objectives. The curriculum was developed according to previous experiences in similar programmes. Recently the course has been organised on the basis of an Inter-University nature with the participation of 5 Greek Universities. The paper aims at providing a description of the new academic programme and a brief evaluation of the implementation phase.

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PubMed2000

Prospects of medical informatics education in Greece: can we bridge the gap?

Medical Informatics education is a complex task,, since it aims in educating inhomogeneous groups of people coming from different disciplines. In Greece, recently considerable advancements in the medical informatics education field are made. These advancements aim in bridging gaps in various areas of MI users interactions. In particular, an overview of the strategy of the Greek ministry of education shall be given, some examples of MI related educational programs shall be referred to, and finally the MI educational structure used in the Aristotelian University shall be presented in detail, laying out the strategy of this University for bridging various types of gaps.

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