Educating 10,000 informaticians by 2010: The AMIA 10×10 program

Hersh, William R.; Williamson, J

doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.01.003

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“…Different degrees of specialization are needed, from graduate education to shorter courses. One example is the American Medical Informatics Association's (AMIA's) 10 × 10 initiative, a program that aimed to train 10,000 professionals in HI by 2010 [50]. Since its introduction, AMIA has been working alongside local institutions in developing countries, such as Argentina and Singapore, to create an international version adapted to local needs [51,52].…”

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Health Informatics in Developing Countries: Going beyond Pilot Practices to Sustainable Implementations: A Review of the Current Challenges

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ObjectivesInformation technology is an essential tool to improve patient safety and the quality of care, and to reduce healthcare costs. There is a scarcity of large sustainable implementations in developing countries. The objective of this paper is to review the challenges faced by developing countries to achieve sustainable implementations in health informatics and possible ways to address them.MethodsIn this non-systematic review of the literature, articles were searched using the keywords medical informatics, developing countries, implementation, and challenges in PubMed, LILACS, CINAHL, Scopus, and EMBASE. The authors, after reading the literature, reached a consensus to classify the challenges into six broad categories.ResultsThe authors describe the problems faced by developing countries arising from the lack of adequate infrastructure and the ways these can be bypassed; the fundamental need to develop nationwide e-Health agendas to achieve sustainable implementations; ways to overcome public uncertainty with respect to privacy and security; the difficulties shared with developed countries in achieving interoperability; the need for a trained workforce in health informatics and existing initiatives for its development; and strategies to achieve regional integration.ConclusionsCentral to the success of any implementation in health informatics is knowledge of the challenges to be faced. This is even more important in developing countries, where uncertainty and instability are common. The authors hope this article will assist policy makers, healthcare managers, and project leaders to successfully plan their implementations and make them sustainable, avoiding unexpected barriers and making better use of their resources.

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Health Informatics in Developing Countries: Going beyond Pilot Practices to Sustainable Implementations: A Review of the Current Challenges

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“…One example is the American Medical Informatics Association's (AMIA's) 10×10 initiative, a program that aims to train 10,000 health care and other professionals in health informatics by 2010. 14,15 Additional solutions in developing countries, however, will involve improving education for workers 16 and building workforce capacity. 17 In this paper we highlight some initiatives that are already occurring and that have been described or summarized in the literature.…”

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Building A Health Informatics Workforce In Developing Countries

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Information and communication technology can be used to improve the quality and safety of health care and to lower costs. But in both developed and developing countries, there is an inadequate supply of skilled individuals who have the technical skills to use this technology to improve health care. Some studies project workforce needs of tens of thousands in English-speaking developed countries, but it is not known what size workforce will be required in the developing world. It is important to identify and develop the skills, training, and competenciesconsistent with local cultures, languages, and health systems-that will be needed to realize the full benefits of these technologies. We present a framework for answering these questions and for developing estimates of the size and scope of the workforce that may be needed.O ne way to bring about improvements in health, health care, biomedical research, and public health across the world is to make use of knowledge and skills in the implementation and use of information and communication technology. The reach of these technologies in the developing world, via both Internet access and mobile phones, is increasing exponentially.1 However, the size and skills of the workforce have not kept pace.When information and communication technology is used for health applications, it is called e-health.2 Its application limited to mobile phone technology is called m-health. Improving Care With TechnologyIn developed economies, there is increasing evidence, documented by systematic reviews, that information and communication technology can improve the quality and safety of health care while reducing its cost. 4,5 In developing economies, the evidence is less robust, but there are successful applications-for example, from Africa, 6,7 Latin America, 8-10 and the Philippines. 11 Workforce NeedsOne of the challenges to implementing health information and communication technology is the need for a skilled workforce that understands health care, information and communication technology, and the people and organizational challenges involved.

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“…The university offers a wide variety of biomedical informatics classes. Grouped in contextual areas based on a prior needs assessment and the AMIA 10 × 10 program 23 ; a sample of educational offerings is listed in Table 4.…”

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“…As recognized in a previous report 23 on biomedical informatics education, UK's training program was focused on educating biomedical researchers rather than health care professionals. Recognizing these limitations, the CBI integrated educational programs with inclusion of health care professionals.…”

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Crossing the Chasm: Information Technology to Biomedical Informatics

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Accelerating the translation of new scientific discoveries to improve human health and disease management is the overall goal of a series of initiatives integrated in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “Roadmap for Medical Research.” The Clinical and Translational Research Award (CTSA) program is, arguably, the most visible component of the NIH Roadmap providing resources to institutions to transform their clinical and translational research enterprises along the goals of the Roadmap. The CTSA program emphasizes biomedical informatics as a critical component for the accomplishment of the NIH’s translational objectives. To be optimally effective, emerging biomedical informatics programs must link with the information technology (IT) platforms of the enterprise clinical operations within academic health centers. This report details one academic health center’s transdisciplinary initiative to create an integrated academic discipline of biomedical informatics through the development of its infrastructure for clinical and translational science infrastructure and response to the CTSA mechanism. This approach required a detailed informatics strategy to accomplish these goals. This transdisciplinary initiative was the impetus for creation of a specialized biomedical informatics core, the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBI). Development of the CBI codified the need to incorporate medical informatics including quality and safety informatics and enterprise clinical information systems within the CBI. This paper describes the steps taken to develop the biomedical informatics infrastructure, its integration with clinical systems at one academic health center, successes achieved, and barriers encountered during these efforts.

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Educating 10,000 informaticians by 2010: The AMIA 10×10 program

Cited by 50 publications

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Health Informatics in Developing Countries: Going beyond Pilot Practices to Sustainable Implementations: A Review of the Current Challenges

Health Informatics in Developing Countries: Going beyond Pilot Practices to Sustainable Implementations: A Review of the Current Challenges

Building A Health Informatics Workforce In Developing Countries

Crossing the Chasm: Information Technology to Biomedical Informatics

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