education

Informatics Masters and Certificate Programs in the US

Submitted by Kevin Clauson on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 14:18

I teach in our University’s Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics (MSBI) program.  We also have a Medical Informatics Certificate program, a Public Health Informatics Certificate program, and offer a MSBI in Portugal.  However, this isn’t a commercial or sponsored post.  This information is simply to provide some context as to why I am interested in seeing a centralized source of information for all post-bac informatics programs.  More importantly, our Section Advisory Group for Pharmacy Informatics Education in the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) is also looking at this topic and relevant issues for pharmacy.

Workforce training and allocation for modernization of HIT

Submitted by JFahrni on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 14:31

The most recent issue of Hospital Pharmacy (Vol 45, No 1, 2010) has an article by Fox and Felkey that discusses the demand that the ARRA will place on the current and future HIT workforce. According to the article “the workforce to shepherd implementation, training, and support [for the modernization of heath care delivery] simply does not exist today; consequently, we could face a situation where health systems and clinics are financially ready to adopt HIT but do not have the personnel to carry it out.” I believe this is absolutely true and have alluded to it in the past (here and here).

More importantly, the shortage of HIT personnel will be further exacerbated by the need for clinicians to enter the technology field. The article supports this thinking by saying that “some experts have suggested that clinically-trained individuals are more suited to the design, selection, implementation, and management of HIT because they have a fundamental understanding of the processes of health care delivery. Alternatively, individuals trained in IT are more technically inclined, but lack firsthand experience with health care delivery systems” Another truism and a problem that is certainly not unique to the HIT field. Companies like Microsoft, Google, GE, Siemens, etc hire pharmacists and other clinician for their unique experience in the health care industry.

Med students ready to use an EHR ?

Submitted by jlassiter on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 14:38
To test the EHR-savvy of nearly 190 fourth-year medical students who haven't participated in a formal class, the school set up a mock patient encounter in the summer and fall of 2009.

In addition to grading individual students' performances, the results provide baseline data on how well students, on average, handle the EHR during a patient encounter

via modernphysician.com

Not surprising conclusion considering the state of healthcare informatics education in medical, pharmacy or nursing curriculum. The study will be interesting to review once it is published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Posted via web from @ Medication Use

Teaching a Course on CHI & Web 2.0 in Healthcare

Submitted by Kevin Clauson on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 13:06

Last year I developed a course titled “Consumer Health Informatics & Web 2.0 in Healthcare”.  It was an excellent learning experience for me and hopefully beneficial for the students as well.  The course was offered last semester in our College of Osteopathic Medicine – Biomedical Informatics Program.  I plan to offer a similar course next semester in our College of Pharmacy tailored for those students and capitalizing on the lessons learned from the previous version.

 

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