Haux R, Swinkels W, Ball M, Knaup P, Lun K C
Int J Med Inform. 1998 Jun;50(1-3):1-6.
Information storage and processing continues to become increasingly important for health care, and offers enormous potential to be realised in the delivery of health care. Therefore, it is imperative that all health care professionals should learn skills and gain knowledge in the field of health informatics, or medical informatics, respectively. Working Group 1, Health and Medical Informatics Education, of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA WG1) seeks to advance the knowledge of how these skills are taught in courses for the various health care professions around the world, and includes physicians, nurses, administrators, and specialists in medical informatics. IMIA WG1 held its 6th International Conference on Health and Medical Education in Newcastle, Australia, in August 1997. The theme of the conference was 'Transformation of Healthcare through Innovative Use of Information Technology'. This special issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics on Health and Medical Informatics Education contains selected papers presented at the conference. In addition to the central topic, Educating Health Care Professionals in Medical Informatics the topics telematics, distance education and computer based training were also discussed at the conference.
信息存储和处理对医疗保健而言愈发重要，并在医疗保健服务中具有巨大的潜在实现价值。因此，所有医疗保健专业人员分别掌握健康信息学或医学信息学领域的技能并获取相关知识势在必行。国际医学信息学协会健康与医学信息学教育工作组1（IMIA WG1）旨在增进对世界各地各种医疗保健专业课程中这些技能教学方式的了解，其成员包括医生、护士、管理人员以及医学信息学专家。IMIA WG1于1997年8月在澳大利亚纽卡斯尔举办了第六届健康与医学教育国际会议。会议主题为“通过创新利用信息技术实现医疗保健转型”。《国际医学信息学杂志》关于健康与医学信息学教育的这一特刊收录了会议上发表的精选论文。除了核心主题“医学信息学领域的医疗保健专业人员教育”之外，远程信息处理、远程教育和基于计算机的培训等主题在会议上也进行了讨论。
