AMIA Board White Paper: AMIA 2017 core competencies for applied health informatics education at the master’s degree level

Abstract This White Paper presents the foundational domains with examples of key aspects of competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) that are intended for curriculum development and accreditation quality assessment for graduate (master’s level) education in applied health informatics. Through a deliberative process, the AMIA Accreditation Committee refined the work of a task force of the Health Informatics Accreditation Council, establishing 10 foundational domains with accompanying example statements of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are components of competencies by which graduates from applied health informatics programs can be assessed for competence at the time of graduation. The AMIA Accreditation Committee developed the domains for application across all the subdisciplines represented by AMIA, ranging from translational bioinformatics to clinical and public health informatics, spanning the spectrum from molecular to population levels of health and biomedicine. This document will be periodically updated, as part of the responsibility of the AMIA Accreditation Committee, through continued study, education, and surveys of market trends.

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Developing Workforce Capacity in Public Health Informatics: Core Competencies and Curriculum Design

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2018.00124 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Douglas R. Wholey ◽

Martin LaVenture ◽

Sripriya Rajamani ◽

Rob Kreiger ◽

Craig Hedberg ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Curriculum Design ◽

Health Informatics ◽

Core Competencies ◽

Public Health Informatics ◽

Workforce Capacity

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Core Competencies in Public Health Informatics

Health Informatics - Public Health Informatics and Information Systems ◽

10.1007/0-387-22745-8_6 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 98-113

Author(s):

Janise Richards

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Informatics ◽

Core Competencies ◽

Public Health Informatics

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The case for integrating public health informatics networks - An overview of the elements required for an integrated enterprise information infrastructure for protecting public health

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine ◽

10.1109/memb.2004.1297178 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 81-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

N.L. Snee ◽

K.A. McCormick

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Informatics ◽

Information Infrastructure ◽

Public Health Informatics ◽

Enterprise Information

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Multiple Disease Hotspot Mining for Public Health Informatics in Resource Starved Settings: Study of Communicable Diseases in Punjab, Pakistan

IEEE Access ◽

10.1109/access.2021.3091655 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Fatima Khalique ◽

Shoab Ahmed Khan

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Informatics ◽

Communicable Diseases ◽

Public Health Informatics

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ACR White Paper: Task Force to Evaluate the Value Add Impact on Business Models

Journal of the American College of Radiology ◽

10.1016/j.jacr.2009.06.008 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 6 (10) ◽

pp. 681-693 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Frank Lexa ◽

Jonathan William Berlin ◽

Giles W.L. Boland ◽

Geoffrey Giles Smith ◽

Mark D. Jensen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Business Models ◽

Task Force ◽

White Paper ◽

Value Add

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A Call to Develop Standards for Those Delivering ‘Research Practice’ Training

Pop! Public. Open. Participatory ◽

10.54590/pop.2021.009 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 03 ◽

Author(s):

Danny Kingsley

Keyword(s):

Information Science ◽

Task Force ◽

Core Competencies ◽

Scholarly Communication ◽

Academic Research ◽

Open Science ◽

Early Career ◽

Research Quality ◽

Research Practice ◽

The North

The nature of the research endeavour is changing rapidly and requires a wide set of skills beyond the research focus. The delivery of aspects of researcher training ‘beyond the bench’ is met by different sections of an institution, including the research office, the media office and the library. In Australia researcher training in open access, research data management and other aspects of open science is primarily offered by librarians. But what training do librarians receive in scholarly communication within their librarianship degrees? For a degree to be offered in librarianship and information science, it must be accredited by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), with a curriculum that is based on ALIA’s lists of skills and attributes. However, these lists do not contain any reference to key open research terms and are almost mutually exclusive with core competencies in scholarly communication as identified by the North American Serials Interest Group and an international Joint Task Force. Over the past decade teaching by academics in universities has been professionalised with courses and qualifications. Those responsible for researcher training within universities and the material that is being offered should also meet an agreed accreditation. This paper is arguing that there is a clear need to develop parallel standards around ‘research practice’ training for PhD students and Early Career Researchers, and those delivering this training should be able to demonstrate their skills against these standards. Models to begin developing accreditation standards are starting to emerge, with the recent launch of the Centre for Academic Research Quality and Improvement in the UK. There are multiple organisations, both grassroots and long-established that would be able to contribute to this project.

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Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics: Recent Research and Trends in the United States

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.15265/iy-2015-012 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 24 (01) ◽

pp. 199-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

B. E. Dixon ◽

H. Kharrazi ◽

H. P. Lehmann

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Workforce Development ◽

Health Informatics ◽

English Language ◽

Health Management ◽

Public Health Practice ◽

The United States ◽

Public Health Workforce ◽

Public Health Informatics ◽

Essential Services

Summary Objectives: To survey advances in public health and epidemiology informatics over the past three years. Methods: We conducted a review of English-language research works conducted in the domain of public health informatics (PHI), and published in MEDLINE between January 2012 and December 2014, where information and communication technology (ICT) was a primary subject, or a main component of the study methodology. Selected articles were synthesized using a thematic analysis using the Essential Services of Public Health as a typology. Results: Based on themes that emerged, we organized the advances into a model where applications that support the Essential Services are, in turn, supported by a socio-technical infrastructure that relies on government policies and ethical principles. That infrastructure, in turn, depends upon education and training of the public health workforce, development that creates novel or adapts existing infrastructure, and research that evaluates the success of the infrastructure. Finally, the persistence and growth of infrastructure depends on financial sustainability. Conclusions: Public health informatics is a field that is growing in breadth, depth, and complexity. Several Essential Services have benefited from informatics, notably, “Monitor Health,” “Diagnose & Investigate,” and “Evaluate.” Yet many Essential Services still have not yet benefited from advances such as maturing electronic health record systems, interoperability amongst health information systems, analytics for population health management, use of social media among consumers, and educational certification in clinical informatics. There is much work to be done to further advance the science of PHI as well as its impact on public health practice.

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