RSS-Feed abonnieren
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638698
Capacity Building in e-Health and Health Informatics: A Review of the Global Vision and Informatics Educational Initiatives of the American Medical Informatics Association
The author acknowledges the contributions and support of IMIA colleagues involved in the meeting in Bellagio, those relating to the wide variety of AMIA programs and initiatives referenced in this paper, in particular AMIA 10×10 and HIBBs and applied clinical informatics specialty certification. Finally, the AMIA staff and advisory group members of the AMIA Global Partnership Program deserve a special mention as do other members of the AMIA staff. Support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been critical to the progress noted here and is gratefully acknowledged. All views expressed are solely the responsibility of the author.Publikationsverlauf
Publikationsdatum:
07. März 2018 (online)
Summary
Substantial global and national commitment will be required for current healthcare systems and health professional practices to become learning care systems utilizing information and communications technology (ICT) empowered by informatics. To engage this multifaceted challenge, a vision is required that shifts the emphasis from silos of activities toward integrated systems. Successful systems will include a set of essential elements, e.g., a sufficient ICT infrastructure, evolving health care processes based on evidence and harmonized to local cultures, a fresh view toward educational preparation, sound and sustained policy support, and ongoing applied research and development.
Increasingly, leaders are aware that ICT empowered by informatics must be an integral part of their national and regional visions. This paper sketches out the elements of what is needed in terms of objectives and some steps toward achieving them. It summarizes some of the progress that has been made to date by the American and International Medical Informatics Associations working separately as well as collaborating to conceptualize informatics capacity building in order to bring this vision to reality in low resource nations in particular.
-
References
- 1 From Silos to Systems: An Overview of eHealth’s Transformatics Power. Making the eHealth Connection: Global Partnerships, Local Solutions. Rockefeller Foundation Report/Bellagio Center Conference Series/January 13, 2010/ Publications. See http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/publications/from-silos-systems-overview-ehealth accessed 9March2010.
- 2 Dentzer S. E-Health’s Promise for the Developing World. Health Affairs. 2010 29. 229 See http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/29/2/229 accessed 11March2010.
- 3 Hersh WR, Margolis A, Quirós F, Otero P. Building a health informatics workforce in developing countries. Health Affairs 2010; 29: 274-77.
- 4 Seebregts CJ, Mamlin BW, Biondich PG, Fraser HS, Wolfe BA, Jazayeri D. et al. The Open MRS implementers network. Int J Med Inform 2009; 78 (11) 711-20.
- 5 Geissbuhler A, Bagayoko CO, Ly O. The RAFT network: five years of distance continuing medical education and tele-consultations over the Internet in French-speaking Africa. Int J Med Inform 2007; 76: 351-6.
- 6 Tierney WM, Kanter AS, Fraser HSF, Bailey C. A Tookit for E-Health Partnership in Low-Income Nations. Health Affairs 2010; 29: 268-73.
- 7 Bloomrosen M, Detmer DE. Informatics, Evidencebased Care and Research; Implications for National Policy: A Report of an American Medical Informatics Association Health Policy Conference. JAMIA 2010; 17: 115-23.
- 8 AMIA Academic Strategic Leadership Council proposal (William Stead, Chair). 2009 (available upon request).
- 9 Hersh W, Williamson J. Educating 10,000 informaticians by 2010: the AMIA 10×10 program. Int J Med Inform 2007; 76: 377-82.
- 10 Otero P, Hersh W, Luna D, López-Osornioa A, Quiros FGB, Langlois E. et al. Translation, implementation and evaluation of a medical informatics distance learning course for Latin America. MEDINFO 2007 Proceedings of the Twelfth World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics. 2007. Brisbane, Australia: IOS Press; CD-ROM P421.
- 11 Detmer DE, Munger B, Holmes J, Lumpkin J, Williamson J. Editorial: Defining the Medical Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics. JAMIA 2009; 16: 167-8.
- 12 Gardner RM, Overhage JM, Steen EB, Munger BS, Holmes JH, Williamson JJ, Detmer DE. for the AMIA Board of Directors Core Content for the Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics. JAMIA 2009; 16: 153-7.
- 13 Safran C, Shabot MM, Holmes JH, Steen EB, Lumpkin JR, Detmer DE. for AMIA Board of Directors: Program Requirements for Fellowship Education in the Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics. JAMIA 2009; 16: 158-66.
- 14 Detmer DE, Munger BS, Lehmann CU. Medical Informatics Board Certification: History, Current Status, and Predict Impact on the Medical Informatics Workforce. Applied Clinical Informatics 2010; 01: 11-18.
- 15 Douglas JV, Hovenga EJ. Health and Medical Informatics Competencies: call to participate in updating the IMIA recommendations. Methods Inf Med 2002; 41 (02) 86-8.
- 16 CDC: Competencies for Public Health Informaticians. See http://www.cdc.gov/InformaticsCompetencies/ accessed 12 March 2010.
- 17 American Nurses Credentialing Center. Informatics Nursing. Available online at http://www.nursecredentialing.org/NurseSpecialties/Informatics.aspx accessed 11 March 2010.
- 18 Health Metrics Network framework. see http://www.who.int/healthmetrics/documents/framework/en/index.html accessed 24 May 2010.
- 19 Geneva Health Forum, see http://www.genevahealthforum.org/ accessed 12March 2010.
- 20 MedInfo 2010, see http://www.medinfo2010.org/ accessed 12 March 2010.