TY - JOUR
T1 - Health and biomedical informatics
T2 - opportunities and challenges for a twenty-first century profession and its education.
AU - Hersh, William
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - OBJECTIVES: Characterize the health and biomedical informatics workforce, its professionalization, and its education. METHODS: Literature review and analysis. RESULTS: Although the value of health information technology is increasingly well-documented, there are still barriers to its widespread adoption around the world. One of those barriers is a well-defined and competent workforce for developing, evaluating, and implementing systems. There are plenty of opportunities in health and biomedical informatics, yet there also is still much that we do not know about this workforce and its education. CONCLUSIONS: Continued efforts must be made to characterize and understand the optimal organization and education of this workforce.
AB - OBJECTIVES: Characterize the health and biomedical informatics workforce, its professionalization, and its education. METHODS: Literature review and analysis. RESULTS: Although the value of health information technology is increasingly well-documented, there are still barriers to its widespread adoption around the world. One of those barriers is a well-defined and competent workforce for developing, evaluating, and implementing systems. There are plenty of opportunities in health and biomedical informatics, yet there also is still much that we do not know about this workforce and its education. CONCLUSIONS: Continued efforts must be made to characterize and understand the optimal organization and education of this workforce.
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M3 - Review article
C2 - 18660890
AN - SCOPUS:50649120650
SN - 0943-4747
SP - 157
EP - 164
JO - Yearbook of medical informatics
JF - Yearbook of medical informatics
ER -