Garde Sebastian, Harrison David, Huque Mohammed, Hovenga Evelyn J S
Faculty of Informatics and Communication, Central Queensland University, Yaamba Road, Rockhampton, QLD 4702, Australia.
Aust Health Rev. 2006 Feb;30(1):34-45.
To ascertain health professionals' perceptions of health informatics skills required in their roles.
A paper-based survey with a stratified random sample of Australian health professionals and a web-based survey open to all Australian health professionals were conducted.
A questionnaire on the health professionals' perceived degree of competency required for a total of 69 specific skills in five skill categories based on the International Medical Informatics Association's (IMIA) set of recommendations on education and IMIA's scientific map.
462 health professionals responded to the paper-based questionnaire, and 167 respondents to the Internet questionnaire. Internet respondents reported higher required degrees of competency for specific health informatics and information technology skills than paper respondents, while paper respondents valued clinical skills higher than the Internet respondents.
Health professionals increasingly use information technology (IT), and some also deploy, research or develop health care IT. Consequently, they need to be adequately educated for their specific roles in health informatics. Our results inform developers of educational programs while acknowledging the diversity of roles in health informatics and the diversity of pathways towards a professional health informatics qualification.
确定卫生专业人员对其工作中所需卫生信息学技能的看法。
对澳大利亚卫生专业人员进行分层随机抽样的纸质调查，并开展面向所有澳大利亚卫生专业人员的网络调查。
基于国际医学信息学协会（IMIA）的教育建议集和IMIA科学图谱，就卫生专业人员对五个技能类别中总共69项特定技能所需的胜任程度进行问卷调查。
462名卫生专业人员回复了纸质问卷，167名受访者回复了网络问卷。网络问卷受访者报告称，对特定卫生信息学和信息技术技能所需的胜任程度高于纸质问卷受访者，而纸质问卷受访者比网络问卷受访者更看重临床技能。
卫生专业人员越来越多地使用信息技术（IT），一些人还部署、研究或开发医疗保健IT。因此，需要对他们在卫生信息学中的特定角色进行充分教育。我们的结果为教育项目开发者提供了参考，同时也认识到卫生信息学中角色的多样性以及获得专业卫生信息学资格的途径的多样性。
