OBJECTIVES This paper outlines a new method of teaching health informatics to large numbers of students from around the world through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). METHODS The Health Informatics Forum is a social networking site for educating health informatics students and professionals [corrected]. It is running a MOOC for students from around the world that uses creative commons lic...

OBJECTIVES To identify challenges and opportunities in imaging informatics that can lead to the use of images for discovery, and that can potentially improve the diagnostic accuracy of imaging professionals. METHODS Recent articles on imaging informatics and related articles from PubMed were reviewed and analyzed. Some new developments and challenges that recent research in imaging informatic...

OBJECTIVE To review and update the Preface to the 1998 Yearbook of Medical Informatics, which had as its Special Topic "Health Informatics and the Internet". METHOD Assessment of the accuracy of predictions made in 1998 and consideration of key developments in informatics since that time. RESULTS Predictions made in 1998 were generally accurate regarding reduced dependence on keyboards, exp...

The public sectors of developing countries require strengthened capacity in health informatics. In Peru, where formal university graduate degrees in biomedical and health informatics were lacking until recently, the AMAUTA Global Informatics Research and Training Program has provided research and training for health professionals in the region since 1999. The Fogarty International Center suppor...

BACKGROUND There is strong support for educating physicians in medical informatics, and the benefits of such education have been clearly identified. Despite this, North American medical schools do not routinely provide education in medical informatics. METHODS We conducted a qualitative study to identify issues facing the introduction of medical informatics into an undergraduate medical curri...

Objective: An underexplored area in Library and Information Science (LIS) is the development of educational offerings partnerships Health-Related Informatics (HRI) (e.g., bioinformatics, clinical informatics, health informatics). The purpose this study to identify which disciplines are collaborating HRI education how developed. Methods: This was conducted two parts: a website review survey. Sev...