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Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Last updated: 12/21/2009
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| Primary Health Care Informatics |
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Goals & Objectives
Objectives:
To promote primary care informatics by:
- acting as a forum for exchange of ideas between its members
- providing information to its members to assist them in progressing primary care informatics in their own country
- increasing the understanding of primary care informatics issues with a view to publishing the results of these discussions.
Recent Activities:
- The journal, Informatics in Primary Care, was re -launched by Radcliffe Publishing, with endorsement from IMIA WG5 and involvement of members of the working group on the Editorial Board. The journal received Medline listing in September 2003, and since then is receiving an increasing volume of submissions from international sources. Full text is available to personal and library subscribers at: www.radcliffe-oxford.com/ipc, and is now free full-text for papers over a year old.
- Members of the working group continue to liaise at an international level on key local and regional initiatives in primary care informatics. Our key international partners include EFMI Working Group 7 (Primary Care), Informatics Working Party of WONCA (The World Organization of Family Doctors), and the American Medical Informatics Association's Primary Care Informatics Working Group.
- The WONCA Informatics Working Party held a 2-day workshop in Prato, Italy, in August 2006; 18 delegates participated to start the preparation of 6 position papers for publication in a special issue of Informatics in Primary Care, on Security, Clinical Decision Support, Information Sharing, Meeting Patient Needs, Education and Support for Family Doctors and Staff, and Quality and Secondary Uses of Data.
- Work has started on preparation for the Primary Care Informatics Day at Medinfo 2007 in Brisbane, working with our key international partners. There will be 2 international keynote speakers, at the beginning and end of the day, with the rest of the time used for workshop sessions on "show & tell" for new developments, and discussions on the principles derived in the position papers from the WONCA meeting.
Future Activities:
- Preparation for Primary Care Informatics Day (19th August 2007) at Medinfo 2007: final arrangements being made for speakers and workshop leaders for the programme outlined above.
- Preparation of papers following the WONCA meeting in August 2006, for publication in a special issue of Informatics in Primary Care.
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