This book offers strategies, methods and suggested curriculum content for training and education programs in informatics and health IT, to prepare individuals as researchers, leaders, managers and developers of informatics tools, intervention and systems.

This heavily revised second edition defines the current state of the art for informatics education in medicine and healthcare. This field has continued to undergo considerable changes as the field of informatics continues to evolve. The book features extensively revised chapters addressing the latest developments in areas including relevant informatics concepts for those who work in health information technology and those teaching informatics courses in clinical settings, techniques for teaching informatics with limited resources, and the use of online modalities in bioinformatics research education. New topics covered include how to get appropriate accreditation for an informatics program, data science and bioinformatics education, and undergraduate health informatics education.

Informatics Education in Healthcare: Lessons Learned addresses the broad range of informatics education programs and available techniques for teaching informatics. It therefore provides avaluable reference for all involved in informatics education.

Features new and extensively revised chapters covering online modalities in bioinformatics research and teaching with little available resources Discusses strategies and approaches to informatics education in a wide variety of areas Provides an overview of new informatics education programs

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Eta S. Berner, Ed.D., received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is currently University Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She is also the founding Director of UAB's Center for Health Informatics for Patient Safety and Quality. Dr. Berner has been teaching in UAB's Master of Science in Health Informatics Program for over 20 years and was Principal Investigator of two informatics workforce development projects funded by the US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to develop a national curriculum for Health Information Technology. Dr. Berner is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. She has published articles in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Academic Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. She is the editor of a Springer book entitled Clinical Decision Support Systems: Theory and Practice (third edition, 2016). Dr. Berner has served on a variety of external review committees for federal grantees developing clinical decision support interventions. She has been a World Health Organization consultant, and has served in leadership positions nationally in the US in professional informatics and health professions educational organizations. Dr. Berner has been actively involved with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) since its inception and has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association since 1998. She is currently a member of AMIA's newly formed Health Informatics Certification Commission.

Inhalt
Introduction and Overview .- Managing Unspoken Assumptions in Online Education.- Training for Informatics Research Careers: History of Extramural Informatics Training at the National Library of Medicine. - Clinical Informatics Subspecialty Certification and Training .- Education in Nursing Informatics.- Applied Informatics for Health IT Managers.- Informatics for the Health Information Technology Workforce .- Online Continuing Education in Informaticsthe AMIA 10x10 Experience .- Educating the Informatics-Enabled Physician.- New Bioinformatics Chapter .- Informatics Education for Health Administrators.- Bioinformatics for Biological ResearchersUsing Online Modalities .- Clinical and Translational Research Informatics Education and Training.- Translating U.S. informatics Educational Programs for Non-U.S. Audiences.- Informatics Education in Low-Resource Settings .- Informatics Education in Healthcare: What Have We Learned? .- NewAccreditation of Informatics Programs .- New Undergraduate Informatics Programs.