Peterson Jennifer
Health Information Management Program at Illinois State University in Normal, IL.
Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2017 Jul 1;14(Summer):1b. eCollection 2017 Summer.
In recent years the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in healthcare has expanded rapidly. Although the use of GIS has increased quickly, very little consensus has been reached on which healthcare professionals are best suited to be trained in and use GIS. A moderate amount of research has addressed the use of GIS in healthcare, but very little research has addressed selecting and training healthcare professionals in the area of GIS. As the use of GIS becomes more closely tied to electronic health records (EHRs), the thought arises that those best versed in EHRs, health information management (HIM) professionals, would be best suited to take on the GIS role. This mixed-methods study explored the current status of HIM professionals' role in GIS as well as the extent to which GIS is being taught in health information educational programs. Although the findings indicate that few HIM professionals are currently using GIS in their jobs and few HIM programs are currently teaching GIS, there is interest in GIS in the future for HIM professionals and in HIM educational programs.
近年来，地理信息系统（GIS）在医疗保健领域的应用迅速扩展。尽管GIS的使用增长迅速，但对于哪些医疗保健专业人员最适合接受GIS培训并使用它，却几乎没有达成共识。已经有适量的研究探讨了GIS在医疗保健中的应用，但在GIS领域挑选和培训医疗保健专业人员方面的研究却很少。随着GIS的使用与电子健康记录（EHR）联系日益紧密，有人认为，那些最精通EHR的人员，即健康信息管理（HIM）专业人员，最适合承担GIS方面的工作。这项混合方法研究探讨了HIM专业人员在GIS中角色的现状，以及健康信息教育项目中GIS教学的程度。尽管研究结果表明，目前很少有HIM专业人员在工作中使用GIS，也很少有HIM项目在教授GIS，但HIM专业人员以及HIM教育项目未来对GIS都有兴趣。
