Informatics Education in Healthcare Lessons Learned
This book reviews and defines the current state of the art for informatics education in medicine and health care. This field has undergone considerable change as the field of informatics itself has evolved. Twenty years ago almost the only individuals inv
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Eta S. Berner Editor
Informatics Education in Healthcare Lessons Learned
Health Informatics
Eta S. Berner Editor
Informatics Education in Healthcare Lessons Learned
Editor Eta S. Berner, EdD, FACMI, FHIMSS Department of Health Services Administration School of Health Professions University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham AL USA Department of Medical Education School of Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham AL USA
ISBN 978-1-4471-4077-1 ISBN 978-1-4471-4078-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4078-8 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht
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To our students, from whom we have learned much.
Preface
Twenty years ago almost the only individuals involved in healthcare who had even heard the term “informatics” were those who identified themselves as medical or nursing informaticians. Today, we have a variety of subfields of informatics including not just medical and nursing informatics, but informatics applied to other health professions (such as dental or pharmacy informatics), as well as health informatics, biomedical informatics, bioinformatics and public health informatics among others. This book addresses t
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