This study reports on an examination of the IT industry's Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) to determine if such a process and/or the use of this tool is suitable to be applied to the health informatics discipline. During this process, four sets of known and agreed-upon Health Informatics skill and knowledge domain statements and competencies were mapped to SFIA. The results showe...

INTRODUCTION The Informatics for Health congress, 24-26 April 2017, in Manchester, UK, brought together the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference and the Farr Institute International Conference. This special issue of the Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics contains 113 presentation abstracts and 149 poster abstracts from the congress. DISCUSSION The twin programmes of "Big Data"...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Centers of Excellence in Public Health Informatics (CoE) program was established to advance the research and practice of public health informatics through several collaborative efforts (1). The CoE program supports the development, translation, and dissemination of informatics knowledge; and provides expertise to public health professionals t...

C. Otero1,2, A. Almerares2, D. Luna2, A. Marcelo3, M. Househ4, H. Mandirola2 1 IMIA Health Informatics for Development Working Group Chair 2 Health Information Department. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina 3 IMIA Health Informatics for Development Working Group Co-Chair, National Telehealth Center, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines 4 College of Public Health and Healt...

The American Medical Informatics Association 2001 Spring Congress brought together the public health and informatics communities to develop a national agenda for public health informatics. Discussions on funding and governance; architecture and infrastructure; standards and vocabulary; research, evaluation, and best practices; privacy, confidentiality, and security; and training and workforce r...

OBJECTIVE To reflect about medical informatics as a discipline. To suggest significant future research directions with the purpose of stimulating further discussion. METHODS Exploring and discussing important developments in medical informatics from the past and in the present by way of examples. Reflecting on the role of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association, in influencing...

introduction: commitment to abstracting standards has a very significant role in information retrieval. the present research aimed to evaluate the rate of commitment to iso 214 standards among the persian abstracts of approved research projects at school of health management and medical informatics, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran.    methods: this descriptive study used a...

Medical informatics, as scientific discipline, has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care. While the field of Medical informatics shares the general scope of these interests with some other health care specialities and disciplines, Medical (Health) informatics has developed its own areas of em...

This article describes a novel double-degree Master’s program in Nursing and Health Informatics. The program was designed to prepare nurses with graduate level competencies in both nursing and health informatics. Such competencies are essential for professionals working in the rapidly expanding fields of nursing and health informatics. There is an immediate and longer-term need for clinical pro...