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Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Last updated: 12/09/2009
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| Health and Medical Informatics Education |
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| Founded: 1974 |
| Membership: 200 |
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| Chair |
Term of Office: 2006 - 2012 |
| Hersh, Prof. William R., MD |
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| Oregon Health & Science University |
| Portland OR USA 97239 |
| +1 503 494 4502 |
| +1 503 494 4551 |
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| Vice-Chair |
Term of Office: 2009 - 2012 |
| Otero, Dr. Paula |
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| Physician |
| Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires |
| Buenos Aires Argentina 1181 |
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Goals & Objectives
Objectives:
- To disseminate and exchange information on Health and Medical Informatics (HMI) programs and courses.
- To promote the IMIA HMI database on programs and courses on HMI education.
- To produce international recommendations on HMI programmes and courses.
- To support HMI courses and exchange of students and teachers.
- To advance the knowledge of:
(1) how informatics is taught in the education of health care professionals around the world,
(2) how in particular health and medical informatics is taught to students of computer science/informatics, and (3) how it is taught within dedicated curricula in health and medical informatics.
Recent Activities:
William Hersh continues in the role of chair of the group. Activities of the group include:
1. Identifying and harmonizing competencies and curricula for health and biomedical informatics, including workshops at the Medinfo and AMIA meetings, updating of the IMIA curriculum recommendations, and AMIA/IMIA collaboration on both the Rockefeller eHealth initiative and the 2020 initiative.
2. Improving our Web presence.
3. Planning our next working group conference in October, 2008.
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