Dental Informatics: Strategic Issues for the Dental Profession

This publication is a report of the first planning conference to address strategic issues in Dental Informatics. The conference was held in August 1989 at the Aspen Institute, Maryland. The attendees represented the major organizations in Dentistry and were able to speak for the organizations as to their goals, objectives, and long range interests. The goal of the conference was to define the parameters of dental informatics across all levels of dental organizations and activities and to address specifically the areas of dental practice, education, and research.

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This book is a report of a strategic planning conference on dental informatics held at the Aspen Institute, Wye, Maryland during August 1989. The conference brought together representatives of the principal U.S. dental organizations, dental academicians working on research and development, as well as individuals from other health professions. The ultimate goal is to identify current initiatives in dental informatics and how they can be meshed into "whole cloth" so that the quality of dental patient care, dental education and dental research can benefit. A further goal is for the various organizations represented to identify their roles in developing informatics in coordinated fashion throughout all segments of dentistry.

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1 Dental Informatics: What, Why, Who, Where, and When.- 2 Contributed Papers.- Keynote Address: Informatics in Dentistry.- The History of Medical Informatics: Implications for Dental Informatics.- Nursing Informatics: How It Evolved and Its Current Status.- Dental Informatics: An Overview.- The Problem-Knowledge Coupler: Applications in Health Care Delivery.- 3 Workshop Discussions and Recommendations.- Informatics Applications in Dental Practice.- Informatics and Dental Education.- Research in Informatics/Informatics in Research.- 4 Conference Outcomes and General Recommendations.- Appendixes.- A. Conference Participants.- B. Workshop Groups.- C. Key Words.