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Informatics Education in Healthcare

Lessons Learned

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Introduction to Lessons Learned

  2. Training Informatics Specialists in the US

  3. Informatics Education for Other Health Professionals

  4. Informatics Education Worldwide

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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA

    Eta S. Berner

About the editor

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 theAmerican 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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Informatics Education in Healthcare

  • Book Subtitle: Lessons Learned

  • Editors: Eta S. Berner

  • Series Title: Health Informatics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53813-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53812-5Published: 20 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53815-6Published: 21 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53813-2Published: 19 October 2020

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1917

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 308

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Informatics, Medical Education, Bioinformatics, Health Economics, Education, general

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