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PubMed2006

Literacy, consumer informatics, and health care outcomes: Interrelations and implications.

Health care outcomes are clearly impacted by the ability of clients to participate in their health care. Nurses have always used education to empower their patients. With the advent of the Internet the concept of patient education has been transformed to the much broader concept of consumer informatics. For increasing numbers of clients the Internet has become a primary source of health information and a major factor influencing their knowledge and decisions related to their health. Successful use of the Internet depends on several different levels and types of literacies. This paper explores the interrelations between the concepts of basic literacy, computer literacy, information literacy, health information literacy and health literacy. It demonstrates the need for client assessment tools that are sensitive to each of these literacies and their interrelations. In concludes by challenging consumer informatics specialists to develop these assessment tools as well as teaching tools for empowering consumers using the Internet.

Comprehension↗
PubMed2006

Teaching nurses to provide patient centered evidence-based care through the use of informatics tools that promote safety, quality and effective clinical decisions.

Schools of Nursing face the challenge of providing students with experiences to use evidence-based consumer centric care information tools. To facilitate this challenge, a unique partnership was forged between a school of nursing and a leading clinical information systems corporation. This strategic partnership was created to advance the field of nursing informatics through the sharing of intellectual capital. Through this sharing, the goal is to study how technology can promote patient safety, support evidence-based care and facilitate consumer involvement in health care decisions. This paper describes the design, development and testing of a multimedia product that can be used by schools of nursing. This product can be integrated into a nursing curriculum to promote the use of informatics tools as an integral practice component. The multimedia product embraces the core competencies advocated by the Institute of Medicine's Health Professions Education Report.

Cooperative Behavior↗
PubMed2006

The fusion of gerontology and technology in nursing education: History and demonstration of the Gerontological Informatics Reasoning Project--GRIP.

Phase I of our Gerontological Reasoning Informatics Project (GRIP) began in the summer of 2002 when all 37 senior undergraduate nursing students in our accelerated BSN nursing program were given PDAs. These students were oriented to use a digitalized geriatric nursing assessment tool embedded into their PDA in a variety of geriatric clinical agencies. This informatics project was developed to make geriatric nursing more technology oriented and focused on seven modules of geriatric assessment: intellect (I), nutrition (N), self-concept (S), physical activity (P), interpersonal functioning (I), restful sleep (R), and elimination (E)--INSPIRE. Through phase II and now phase III, the GRIP Project has become a major collaboration between the College of Nursing & Health Professions and College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. The digitalized geriatric nursing health assessment tool has undergone a second round of reliability and validity testing and is now used to conduct a 20 minute comprehensive geriatric health assessment on the PDA, making our undergraduate gerontology course the most high tech clinical course in our nursing curriculum.

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PubMed2006

A certificate program in health informatics: Brazil/USA experience.

Considering the continued demand for a large number of trained professionals we decided to offer a certificate program in health informatics. The objective is to prepare professionals to conduct research and implement the curriculum content in their original institutions. We selected 14 candidates from several national institutes. The disciplines are taught by Brazilian and US faculty. Researches conducted by the certificate students were relevant to Brazil's health needs. The goal is to promote better health informatics education, regardless of geographic distribution of students.

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PubMed2006

Cuban experiences in cooperative links for supporting the development of nursing informatics.

The objective of this poster is to describe the different contributions that have been offered to support the introduction of nursing informatics (NI) as a specific field of health informatics in Cuba. It presents summary information about how Cuba, like other developing countries in the Caribbean area, is aligned with the IMIA-NI-SIG objectives, and how initiatives, together with the help of some leaders of this association, have helped towards achieving the goal of developing NI in Cuba. The strategies are discussed here, along with the objective of developing a single model for how to support the development of NI in the developing countries.

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PubMed2006

The young person's guide to biomedical informatics.

In a retrospective review, a parallel is drawn between the challenges by which a research department in biomedical informatics is confronted and those of a symphony orchestra. In both areas, different disciplines and different groups of instruments can be discerned. The importance of mastering one's instrument and the harmony between the team members is stressed. The conductor has to stimulate the individual players so that they can all have a successful career. Competition between orchestras and performance assessments determine survival and success. A record of refereed publications is crucial for continued existence. Conclusions are that biomedical informatics is typically multidisciplinary, that hypotheses underlying research should be carefully formulated, that the time from research to application may easily take 20 years or more, that mutual trust and knowing each other's competences is essential for success, that a good leader gives enough room to all team members to develop their careers, and that the outcomes of assessment studies are related to the quality of publications.

Biomedical Research↗
PubMed2006

Reflections on biomedical informatics: from cybernetics to genomic medicine and nanomedicine.

Expanding on our previous analysis of Biomedical Informatics (BMI), the present perspective ranges from cybernetics to nanomedicine, based on its scientific, historical, philosophical, theoretical, experimental, and technological aspects as they affect systems developments, simulation and modelling, education, and the impact on healthcare. We then suggest that BMI is still searching for strong basic scientific principles around which it can crystallize. As -omic biological knowledge increasingly impacts the future of medicine, ubiquitous computing and informatics become even more essential, not only for the technological infrastructure, but as a part of the scientific enterprise itself. The Virtual Physiological Human and investigations into nanomedicine will surely produce yet more unpredictable opportunities, leading to significant changes in biomedical research and practice. As a discipline involved in making such advances possible, BMI is likely to need to re-define itself and extend its research horizons to meet the new challenges.

Cybernetics↗
PubMed2006

Meeting the challenges--the role of medical informatics in an ageing society.

The objective of this paper is to identify trends and new technological developments that appear due to an ageing society and to relate them to current research in the field of medical informatics. A survey of the current literature reveals that recent technological advances have been made in the fields of "telecare and home-monitoring", "smart homes and robotics" and "health information systems and knowledge management". Innovative technologies such as wearable devices, bio- and environmental sensors and mobile, humanoid robots do already exist and ambient assistant living environments are being created for an ageing society. However, those technologies have to be adapted to older people's self-care processes and coping strategies, and to support new ways of healthcare delivery. Medical informatics can support this process by providing the necessary information infrastructure, contribute to standardisation, interoperability and security issues and provide modelling and simulation techniques for educational purposes. Research fields of increasing importance with regard to an ageing society are, moreover, the fields of knowledge management, ubiquitous computing and human-computer interaction.

Aging↗
PubMed2006

Medical education and role of medical informatics.

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as developing country in transition, has to shift from traditional ways of learning to the transformation of the university education in accordance with Bologna process and educational standards in European Union. In the light of these changes authors conducted research at bio-medical faculties in Sarajevo in order to address issues of the education of future physicians and especially role of medical informatics in their under and post graduate studies and continuous medical education. As per given results in this study, current quality of medical education at biomedical faculties, University of Sarajevo, is unsatisfactory due to several reasons and some among others are those traditionally seen as "computer literacy". Problems are determined and recommendations are given for decision makers to support transformation of BiH medical educational system to have physicians, dentists, pharmacists and nurses who possess the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to be competent in medical informatics if they wish to incorporate into their practices systematic approaches for promoting and maintaining the health of defined populations.

Education, Medical↗
PubMed2006

Developing an interactive approach in teaching medical informatics.

A new masters program in medical informatics is proposed for development at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timisoara. Given the rapidly changing technology itself and its deployment in biomedical science, the master's program curriculum has to be multidisciplinary, comprehensive and coherent in conveying the concepts, as well as the interdisciplinary character, of medical informatics (MI). We describe the rationale and methods for a pilot study to develop a new, interactive approach in teaching MI. The study is being conducted within the existing MI course offered for the medical students in order to evaluate its impact on instruction and determine if a larger scale design is feasible. Two teaching teams of four instructors have been assigned to one of two tracks in our pilot study: traditional instruction or interactive instruction. After one term we have gained important information about how the structural and instructional aspects of the pilot design may influence confidence and attitudes.

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PubMed2006

Romanian medical informatics and professor Jan H. van Bemmel's support--Dr. Honoris Causa bestowed by Victor Babes University.

OBJECTIVE: The development of medical informatics education in Romania, starting from Timisoara, was strongly influenced by the support offered generously by Professor Jan H. van Bemmel, in a period when the imposed political conditions limited contacts between Western and Eastern countries. We tried to present here some of the most significant actions and events related to this long lasting collaboration. METHODS: The evolution of the relations between the Departments of Medical Informatics from Medical University in Timisoara and Erasmus University in Rotterdam is described in chronological order. RESULTS: Professor van Bemmel found appropriate ways to offer his support, adapted to each historical period. He started by sending books, journals and software, continued with support for attending conferences and then extended to more active collaborations. CONCLUSION: In 2006 professor van Bemmel was the keynote speaker of the EFMI Special Topic Conference held in Timisoara and was awarded the title of 'Doctor Honoris Causa' of the Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy.

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PubMed2006

The young person's guide to biomedical informatics.

OBJECTIVE: To draw a parallel between the challenges by which a research department in biomedical informatics is confronted and those of a symphony orchestra; in both areas different disciplines and various groups of instruments can be discerned. METHOD: Retrospective, personal review of how to conduct biomedical research. RESULTS: The importance of mastering one's instrument and the harmony between the team members is stressed. The conductor has to motivate all players so that they can have a successful career. Competition between orchestras and performance assessments determine survival and success. A record of refereed publications is crucial for continued existence. CONCLUSIONS: Biomedical informatics is typically multidisciplinary. Hypotheses underlying research should be carefully formulated. The time from research to application may easily take 20 years or more. Mutual trust and knowing each other's competences is essential for success. A good leader gives enough room to all team members to develop their careers. The outcomes of assessment studies are directly related to the quality of publications.

Age Factors↗
PubMed2006

Informatics and public health at CDC.

Since CDC acquired its first mainframe computer in 1964, the use of information technology in public health practice has grown steadily and, during the past 2 decades, dramatically. Public health informatics (PHI) arrived on the scene during the 1990s after medical informatics (intersecting information technology, medicine, and health care) and bioinformatics (intersecting mathematics, statistics, computer science, and molecular biology). Similarly, PHI merged the disciplines of information science and computer science to public health practice, research, and learning. Using strategies and standards, practitioners employ PHI tools and training to maximize health impacts at local, state, and national levels. They develop and deploy information technology solutions that provide accurate, timely, and secure information to guide public health action.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.↗
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Medical informatics and clinical decision making: the science and the pragmatics.

There are important scientific and pragmatic synergies between the medical decision making field and the emerging discipline of medical informatics. In the 1970s, the field of medicine forced clinically oriented artificial intelligence (AI) researchers to develop ways to manage explicit statements of uncertainty in expert systems. Classic probability theory was considered and discussed, but it tended to be abandoned because of complexities that limited its use. In medical AI systems, uncertainty was handled by a variety of ad hoc models that simulated probabilistic considerations. To illustrate the scientific interactions between the fields, the author describes recent work in his laboratory that has attempted to show that formal normative models based on probability and decision theory can be practically melded with AI methods to deliver effective advisory tools. In addition, the practical needs of decision makers and health policy planners are increasingly necessitating collaborative efforts to develop a computing and communications infrastructure for the decision making and informatics communities. This point is illustrated with an example drawn from outcomes management research.

Artificial Intelligence↗
PubMed1990

Informatics as a separate section within a department of pathology.

Departments of pathology should be reorganized to include a separate section of pathology informatics (PI) in addition to the traditional sections of clinical pathology and anatomic pathology. PI is the discipline of medical informatics as practiced within pathology and encompasses a rich mix of activities. The primary role of specialists working in clinical pathology and anatomic pathology would be to create information, whereas that of informaticians in a section of PI would be to add value to the created information by processing it and communicating it to users. The four major benefits associated with a PI section would be as follows: (1) enhanced productivity and efficiency in the development of alignment and impact applications; (2) better management of the information product of pathology and the informaticians themselves; (3) increased political power and influence for pathology; and (4) increased awareness and sophistication on the part of departmental leaders about information processing. Departmental benefits from the proposed organizational change would thus be calibrated in terms of the ability of the revamped department to harness and exploit new information technology.

Clinical Laboratory Information Systems↗
PubMed1990

[Methods of informatics in pathology].

Author surveys literature of pathology and medical informatics of last 25 years regarding pathological information systems. He studies changes of used hardware and software means related to development of computer technique. Some issues of use of pathological informatics in Hungary are also touched on basis of literature.

Clinical Laboratory Information Systems↗
PubMed1989

The status of medical informatics in Canadian medical schools.

Many have suggested that information technology in its various forms will continue to have an effect on all aspects of medicine, including medical education. If so, the introduction of information technology into medicine brings with it critical educational policy questions. This paper reports on the findings of an inquiry into the impact of information technology on medical education. It reviews the extent to which Canadian and American medical colleges have adopted the 1985 recommendations of the American Association of Medical Colleges. In particular, it looks at the recommendations that "medical informatics should become an integral part of the medical curriculum" and that "the teaching of medical informatics should include opportunities for specific instruction in its fundamentals as well as adequate examples of its application throughout the medical curriculum".

Attitude to Computers↗
PubMed1989

Health informatics education in the Third World.

The state of the art is summarized showing many efforts but only few results which can serve as demonstration examples for developing countries. Education in health informatics in developing countries is still mainly dealing with the type of health informatics known from the industrialized world. Educational tools or curricula geared to the matter of development are rarely to be found. Some WHO activities suggest that it is time for a collaboration network to derive tools and curricula within the next decade.

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