1 Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, 2 Department of Public Health Sciences, Department of Oral Health Sciences, Biomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, South Carolina, 5 Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, 6 Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minnesot...

INTRODUCTION A recent National Association of City & County Health Officials survey shed light on informatics workforce development needs. Local health departments (LHDs) of various jurisdictional sizes and control over informatics may differ on training needs and activity. Understanding the precise nature of this variation will allow stakeholders to appropriately develop workforce development ...

Methods Inf Med 5/2012 The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), together with its member society, the Danish Society of Medical Informatics (DSMI), will host the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo2013) in Copenhagen, Denmark, on August 20 –23, 2013. IMIA is the leader for the international biomedical and health informatics communities. In line with i...

D. Luna1, C. Otero2, A. Marcelo3 1 IMIA Health Informatics for Development Working Group Chair, and Chair of Health Informatics Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2 Oregon Health and Science University, USA, and Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina 3 IMIA Health Informatics for Development Working Group Co-Chair, National Telehealth Center, University of the Philip...

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on international recommendations in health informatics / medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course tracks or even complete programs in this field, to further develop existing educational activities in the various nations and to support international initiatives concerning education in health and ...