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Yearb Med Inform 2010; 19(01): 101-105
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638698
Original Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Capacity Building in e-Health and Health Informatics: A Review of the Global Vision and Informatics Educational Initiatives of the American Medical Informatics Association

D. E. Detmer
1   Senior Advisor, American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, MD, USA
2   Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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The author acknowledges the contributions and support of IMIA colleagues involved in the meeting in Bellagio, those relating to the wide variety of AMIA programs and initiatives referenced in this paper, in particular AMIA 10×10 and HIBBs and applied clinical informatics specialty certification. Finally, the AMIA staff and advisory group members of the AMIA Global Partnership Program deserve a special mention as do other members of the AMIA staff. Support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been critical to the progress noted here and is gratefully acknowledged. All views expressed are solely the responsibility of the author.
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Crozet, VA
USA
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Publication Date:
07 March 2018 (online)

 
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Summary

Substantial global and national commitment will be required for current healthcare systems and health professional practices to become learning care systems utilizing information and communications technology (ICT) empowered by informatics. To engage this multifaceted challenge, a vision is required that shifts the emphasis from silos of activities toward integrated systems. Successful systems will include a set of essential elements, e.g., a sufficient ICT infrastructure, evolving health care processes based on evidence and harmonized to local cultures, a fresh view toward educational preparation, sound and sustained policy support, and ongoing applied research and development.

Increasingly, leaders are aware that ICT empowered by informatics must be an integral part of their national and regional visions. This paper sketches out the elements of what is needed in terms of objectives and some steps toward achieving them. It summarizes some of the progress that has been made to date by the American and International Medical Informatics Associations working separately as well as collaborating to conceptualize informatics capacity building in order to bring this vision to reality in low resource nations in particular.


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Keywords

e-Health - biomedical informatics - health informatics - education - capacity building - complex adaptive systems - information and communications technology (ICT) - applied clinical informaticians - AMIA Global Partnership Program

 


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Correspondence to:

D.E. Detmer, MD, MA
5245 Browns Gap Turnpike
Crozet, VA
USA
Phone: +1 434 823 1766   
Fax: +1 434 823 2615   
Email: detmer@virginia.edu   


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