scholarly journals On Contributing to the Progress of Medical Informatics as Publisher

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (01) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
R. Haux ◽  
A. Geissbuhler ◽  
J. Holmes ◽  
M.-C. Jaulent ◽  
S. Koch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Chief Executive Officer ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
80Th Birthday ◽  
Clinical Informatics ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Past

SummaryMay 1st, 2017, will mark Dieter Bergemann’s 80th birthday. As Chief Executive Officer and Owner of Schattauer Publishers from 1983 to 2016, the biomedical and health informatics community owes him a great debt of gratitude. The past and present editors of Methods of Information in Medicine, the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, and Applied Clinical Informatics want to honour and thank Dieter Bergemann by providing a brief biography that emphasizes his contributions, by reviewing his critical role as an exceptionally supportive publisher for Schattauer’s three biomedical and health informatics periodicals, and by sharing some personal anecdotes. Over the past 40 years, Dieter Bergemann has been an influential, if behind-the-scenes, driving force in biomedical and health informatics publications, helping to ensure success in the dissemination of our field’s research and practice.

scholarly journals On Contributing to the Progress of Medical Informatics as Publisher

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (01) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
R. Haux ◽  
A. Geissbuhler ◽  
J. Holmes ◽  
M.-C. Jaulent ◽  
S. Koch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Chief Executive Officer ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
80Th Birthday ◽  
Clinical Informatics ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Past

Summary May 1st, 2017, will mark Dieter Bergemann’s 80th birthday. As Chief Executive Officer and Owner of Schattauer Publishers from 1983 to 2016, the biomedical and health informatics community owes him a great debt of gratitude. The past and present editors of Methods of Information in Medicine, the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, and Applied Clinical Informatics want to honour and thank Dieter Bergemann by providing a brief biography that emphasizes his contributions, by reviewing his critical role as an exceptionally supportive publisher for Schattauer’s three biomedical and health informatics periodicals, and by sharing some personal anecdotes. Over the past 40 years, Dieter Bergemann has been an influential, if behind-the-scenes, driving force in biomedical and health informatics publications, helping to ensure success in the dissemination of our field’s research and practice.

scholarly journals Access to Health Information. Editorial

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 17-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Kulikowski ◽  
A. Geissbuhler
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Number Of Publications

Summary Objectives To provide an editorial introduction to the 2008 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors. MethodsA brief overview of the main theme of “Access to Health Information”, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2008 IMIA Yearbook. Results This 2008 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highlights how Access to Health Information has become ubiquitous over the web during the past decade, with a significant number of publications in biomedical and health informatics addressing both the science and technology of the field and how it is contributing to the improvement of health systems worldwide through a number of original contributions, and selected excellent papers published during the past 12 months. Conclusion The reviews and surveys on the main research fields in medical informatics in the Yearbook provide an overview of progress during this fortieth year of IMIA, focusing on the critical role that informatics plays in access to health information.

scholarly journals A review of biomedical and health informatics education: A workforce training framework

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saif Khairat ◽  
Ryan Sandefer ◽  
David Marc ◽  
Lee Pyles
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Workforce Training ◽  
Biomedical Data ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Current Form ◽  
American Medical Informatics Association

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to review the current state of health information technology (HIT) training programs and identify limitations in workforce expectations and student/trainee level of preparedness. A framework is proposed to build a more effective training program, differentiate HIT and health informatics, and emphasize the critical role of interprofessional collaboration for informatics-related curriculum. We define interprofessionalism as the multi-sector collaborations among academia, industry (Health Care Organizations), and vendors to produce competent informaticians.Methods: Critical review of published HIT and health informatics curricular competencies was conducted, including those published by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for HIT, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), and the Council on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management. A review of literature related to HIT and health informatics education and training was also completed.Results: The paper presents a framework for promoting health informatics training with an interprofessional foundation. The core components of the curricular competencies include understanding the healthcare system, biomedical data, computer programming, data analytics, usability, and technology infrastructure. To effectively deliver the content, programs require collaboration between academic institutions, healthcare organizations, and industry vendors.Conclusions: HIT and health informatics-related training programs, in their current form, are not meeting industry needs. The proposed framework addresses the current limitations by providing unique pathways for content delivery by promoting interprofessional collaboration and partnerships between academia and industry.

scholarly journals Clinical Informatics Board Certification: History, Current Status, and Predicted Impact on the Clinical Informatics Workforce

2010 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 11-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Detmer ◽  
Benson Munger ◽  
Christoph Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Clinical Informatics ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Public Health Informatics ◽  
Medical Specialties

SummaryWithin health and health care, medical informatics and its subspecialties of biomedical, clinical, and public health informatics have emerged as a new discipline with increasing demands for its own work force. Knowledge and skills in medical informatics are widely acknowledged as crucial to future success in patient care, research relating to biomedicine, clinical care, and public health, as well as health policy design. The maturity of the domain and the demand on expertise necessitate standardized training and certification of professionals. The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) embarked on a major effort to create professional level education and certification for physicians of various professions and specialties in informatics. This article focuses on the AMIA effort in the professional structure of medical specialization, e.g., the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the related Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). This report summarizes the current progress to create a recognized sub-certificate of competence in Clinical Informatics and discusses likely near term (three to five year) implications on training, certification, and work force with an emphasis on clinical applied informatics.

scholarly journals Health Informatics: Building Capacity Worldwide. Editorial

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 06-07 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Kulikowski ◽  
Antoine Geissbuhler
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Workforce Capacity

Summary Objectives: To provide an editorial introduction to the 2010 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics with an overview of its contents and contributors. Methods: A brief overview of the main theme, and an outline of the purposes, contents, format, and acknowledgment of contributions for the 2010 IMIA Yearbook. Results: This 2010 issue of the IMIA Yearbook highlights important developments in the building of workforce capacity in medical informatics worldwide, covering activities in research, education and practice in this interdisciplinary field. Progress towards educating and keeping professionals in the field up-to-date is complemented by outreach to the wide range of disciplines and biomedical and health specialties that are covered by this very broad field, identified from the recent literature, illustrated by selected papers published during the past 12 months.xs Conclusion: Reviews and Surveys of the main research sub-fields in biomedical informatics in the Yearbook provide an overview of progress and current challenges across the spectrum of the discipline.

scholarly journals History of Romanian Medical Informatics: Learning from the Past to Reshape the Future

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 243-251
Author(s):  
George Mihalas ◽  
Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Present State ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Active Member ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
And Training

Objectives: The paper presents a review of the history of medical informatics in Romania, starting from the pioneering works, relating the present, and foreseeing the future. Methods: Major milestones of the development of this field have not been simply enumerated, but described within the specific socio-political frame, grasping the entire context over the last four decades in Romania. Two main perspectives have been traced: education and training in medical informatics and implementations in healthcare. Results: Four distinctive historical periods are identified and the major events of each period are described in a critical manner. The history of the Romanian Society of Medical Informatics is presented in a separate chapter. The last section is dedicated to the present state of the field in Romania. Conclusion: The history of Romanian Medical Informatics spans many years and is rich in content. The Romanian Society of Medical Informatics is mainly the result of the efforts undertaken by an enthusiastic and sound professional community, trying to continue the tradition, to achieve new goals, and to work as an active member of the international biomedical/health informatics community.

Haier Is the Sea: CEO Zhang Ruimin's Innovative Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Chief Executive Officer ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Management Structure ◽  
Philosophical Text ◽  
The Past ◽  
Innovative Management ◽  
Leadership And Organization

The chief executive officer of the Haier Group, Zhang Ruimin, wrote the philosophical text ‘Haier Is the Sea’, published in Chinese in 1994, and since then Haier has gradually built up a ‘sea culture’ that has guided its organizational transformations for over twenty years. The latest reform, in 2014, reorganized the giant corporation into the Haier Open Partnership Ecosystem (HOPE), which is like ‘a sea of entrepreneurs’, to achieve the goal of ‘management without leadership and organization without borders’ [管理无领导, 组织无边界] (see discussions in Schrage, 2014 and Ye & Teng, 2015). This radical organizational change astounded its peers and competitors at home and abroad. Even in the internet era, most white-goods companies still rely heavily on ‘economies of scale’ to reduce their costs to compete in the market, which in turn requires a pyramidal management structure. However, if we review the thinking of its leader for thirty years, we will understand that the 2014 reform was not radical but, rather, followed a smooth trajectory building on the past.

scholarly journals IMIA: Coalescing Medical Informatics Worldwide for 40 Years

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 176-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Kulikowski
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Health Care Research ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Time Line ◽  
Research Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Working Groups

SummaryTo summarize and highlight the role of IMIA in the past 40 years in becoming the international professional organization that brings together researchers, practitioners, and educators in the field of medical informatics, and more broadly biomedical, nursing, and health informaticsOutlining developments of medical informatics related to IMIA from 1967 to 2007 in a time-line and comparative topic and geographical distribution analyses over selected MEDINFOs from 1980 and selected Yearbooks from 1992 onwards. This illustrates how IMIA, through the global reach of its activities, has helped advance the science and development of informatics across the entire spectrum of biomedical and health care research, education, and practice.The contribution of IMIA over the past 40 years has been to sponsor and coordinate international conferences and promote interchange and collaborations in biomedical and health informatics by linking national and regional societies, organizing meetings, high quality publications, and working groups. These have helped the coalescing of the discipline worldwide, promoting full participation and a broad interdisciplinary scope that fulfills the hopes of the pioneers in the field.

Clinical informatics: a workforce priority for 21st century healthcare

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Smith ◽  
Lesley E. Drake ◽  
Julie-Gai B. Harris ◽  
Kay Watson ◽  
Peter G. Pohlner
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Clinical Informatics ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Local Health Service

This paper identifies the contribution of health and clinical informatics in the support of healthcare in the 21st century. Although little is known about the health and clinical informatics workforce, there is widespread recognition that the health informatics workforce will require significant expansion to support national eHealth work agendas. Workforce issues including discipline definition and self-identification, formal professionalisation, weaknesses in training and education, multidisciplinarity and interprofessional tensions, career structure, managerial support, and financial allocation play a critical role in facilitating or hindering the development of a workforce that is capable of realising the benefits to be gained from eHealth in general and clinical informatics in particular. As well as the national coordination of higher level policies, local support of training and allocation of sufficient position hours in appropriately defined roles by executive and clinical managers is essential to develop the health and clinical informatics workforce and achieve the anticipated results from evolving eHealth initiatives. What is known about the topic? Health informatics is considered an emerging profession. There are not enough Health Informaticians to support the eHealth agenda. What does this paper add? This paper considers the issues, barriers and facilitators of capacity building in the health informatics workforce with a special emphasis on Clinical Informaticians. The authors conclude that resources and awareness at the national, state and local health service levels is required to facilitate health and clinical informatics’ capacity building. What are the implications for practitioners? Recognition and support of the health and clinical informatics workforce is required to improve the appropriate implementation and use of Health Information Technology for clinical care, quality and service management.

The Major Challenges Facing Our Industry

2007 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 6-22
Author(s):  
Clarence P. Cazalot
Keyword(s):  
Chief Executive Officer ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Technical People

Executive Perspective - Clarence P. Cazalot Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of Marathon Oil Corp., describes four major challenges the industry must address to meet future oil and gas demand, including finding sufficient numbers of well-trained and capable technical people. Solving the people issue will require companies to do things considerably differently from how they have done them in the past.

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