Developing capacity in health informatics in a resource poor setting: lessons from Peru
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Developing capacity in health informatics in a resource poor setting: lessons from Peru Ann Marie Kimball1, Walter H Curioso1,2, Yuzo Arima*1, Sherrilynne Fuller1, Patricia J Garcia2, Jose Segovia-Juarez2, Jesus M Castagnetto2, Fabiola LeonVelarde2 and King K Holmes1 Address: 1University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA and 2Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av Honorio Delgado 430 Urbanizacion Ingenieria-San Martin de Porres, Lima 31, Peru Email: Ann Marie Kimball - [email protected]; Walter H Curioso - [email protected]; Yuzo Arima* - [email protected]; Sherrilynne Fuller - [email protected]; Patricia J Garcia - [email protected]; Jose Segovia-Juarez - [email protected]; Jesus M Castagnetto - [email protected]; Fabiola Leon-Velarde - [email protected]; King K Holmes - [email protected] * Corresponding author
Published: 27 October 2009 Human Resources for Health 2009, 7:80
doi:10.1186/1478-4491-7-80
Received: 30 January 2008 Accepted: 27 October 2009
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Abstract 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 supports the program as a collaborative partnership between Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru and the University of Washington in the United States of America. The program aims to train core professionals in health informatics and to strengthen the health information resource capabilities and accessibility in Peru. The program has achieved considerable success in the development and institutionalization of informatics research and training programs in Peru. Projects supported by this program are leading to the development of sustainable training opportunities for informatics and eight of ten Peruvian fellows trained at the University of Washington are now developing informatics programs and an information infrastructure in Peru. In 2007, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia started offering the first graduate diploma program in biomedical informatics in Peru.
Introduction Technology serves public health, and an important mission for public health schools today is to advance knowledge and provide training in 'appropriate technologies' for the control of diseases of poverty in developing countries [1]. Appropriate technologies must be developed, produc
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