scholarly journals A Viewpoint on Evidence-based Health Informatics, Based on a Pilot Survey on Evaluation Studies in Health Care Informatics

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Ammenwerth ◽  
N. de Keizer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Health Care Informatics ◽  
Care Informatics

scholarly journals Future Direction of IMIA Standardization

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (01) ◽  
pp. 105-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kimura ◽  
S. Ogishima ◽  
A. Shabo ◽  
I. K. Kim ◽  
C. Parisot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Global Alliance ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Health Care Informatics ◽  
Integrating The Healthcare Enterprise ◽  
The Status ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Care Informatics ◽  
Standard Development

Summary Objectives: Standardization in the field of health informatics has increased its importance and global alliance for establishing interoperability and compatibility internationally. Standardization has been organized by standard development organizations (SDOs) such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization), CEN (European Committee for Standardization), IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise), and HL7 (Health Level 7), etc. This paper reports the status of these SDOs’ activities. Methods: In this workshop, we reviewed the past activities and the current situation of standardization in health care informatics with the standard development organizations such as ISO, CEN, IHE, and HL7. Then we discussed the future direction of standardization in health informatics toward “future medicine” based on standardized technologies. Results: We could share the status of each SDO through exchange of opinions in the workshop. Some WHO members joined our discussion to support this constructive activity. Conclusion: At this meeting, the workshop speakers have been appointed as new members of the IMIA working groups of Standards in Health Care Informatics (WG16). We could reach to the conclusion that we collaborate for the international standardization in health informatics toward “future medicine”.

scholarly journals Evidence Based Health Informatics: 10 Years of Efforts to Promote the Principle

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (01) ◽  
pp. 34-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Ammenwerth ◽  
M.-C. Beuscart-Zephir ◽  
J. Brender ◽  
H. Hyppönen ◽  
S. Melia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Informatics ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Health It ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Reliable Source

Summary Objectives: To present the importance of Evidence-based Health Informatics (EBHI) and the ethical imperative of this approach; to highlight the work of the IMIA Working Group on Technology Assessment and Quality Improvement and the EFMI Working Group on Assessment of Health Information Systems; and to introduce the further important evaluation and evidence aspects being addressed. Methods: Reviews of IMIA, EFMA and other initiatives, together with literature reviews on evaluation methods and on published systematic reviews. Results: Presentation of the rationale for the health informatics domain to adopt a scientific approach by assessing impact, avoiding harm, and empirically demonstrating benefit and best use; reporting of the origins and rationale of the IMIA- and EQUATOR-endorsed Statement on Reporting of Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics (STARE-HI) and of the IMIA WG's Guideline for Good Evaluation Practice in Health Informatics (GEP-HI); presentation of other initiatives for objective evaluation; and outlining of further work in hand on usability and indicators; together with the case for development of relevant evaluation methods in newer applications such as telemedicine. The focus is on scientific evaluation as a reliable source of evidence, and on structured presentation of results to enable easy retrieval of evidence. Conclusions: EBHI is feasible, necessary for efficiency and safety, and ethically essential. Given the significant impact of health informatics on health systems, care delivery and personal health, it is vital that cultures change to insist on evidence-based policies and investment, and that emergent global moves for this are supported.

scholarly journals Postprofessional Athletic Training Students' Perceptions Concerning the Health Care Competencies

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cailee E. Welch Bacon ◽  
Bonnie L. Van Lunen ◽  
Dorice A. Hankemeier
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Athletic Training Students ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Health Care Informatics ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Care Informatics

Context: Over a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine indicated that all health care professionals should be educated in several health care competency areas (quality improvement, health care informatics, interprofessional education and collaborative practice, evidence-based practice, and patient-centered care). Despite this initiative, athletic training has only recently incorporated these competencies throughout education. Objective: To assess postprofessional athletic training students' perceived abilities and importance regarding 6 core competencies. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Self-reported paper survey. Patients or Other Participants: A total of 221 from a convenience sample of 258 postprofessional athletic training students (85.7%) completed the survey (82 males, 138 females; age = 23.29 ± 2.05 years). Main Outcome Measure(s): The survey consisted of several concept statements for each competency, and perceptions were collected via Likert-scale items (range 1–4). Composite perceived ability and importance Likert-scale scores were achieved by tabulating all values and then averaging the scores back to the Likert scale. Higher scores indicated that participants perceived themselves to have greater ability and that the concepts were more important for implementation in clinical practice. Results: Overall, postprofessional athletic training students perceived they were able to implement the concepts of the competencies into their daily practice and perceived all of the competencies to be moderately to extremely important for implementation. However, while participants globally perceived they were able to implement the competencies, they disagreed or strongly disagreed they were able to implement some concepts, particularly within health care informatics and patient-centered care, as a part of their clinical practice. Conclusions: Postprofessional athletic training students recognize the importance of the core competencies and perceive they are able to implement these competencies throughout clinical practice. However, as postprofessional athletic training students continue to advance their skills as clinicians, the benefits of health care informatics and incorporating real-time electronic patient data to support their clinical decisions should be emphasized.

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