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Gateway to Health
Informatics
(an
AMIA i10x10 Course)
Course 4 launching on Monday, 15
November 2010
Course endorsed by
Successful participants will receive an AMIA
i10x10 Cert.
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Information for participants from
outside Singapore
Following the successful inaugural
launch of the "Gateway to Health Informatics"
in March 2009,
Gateway Consulting, in collaboration with the Department of Medical
Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health &
Science University (OHSU), USA, is pleased to
announce the launch of the next Course. OHSU is an accredited
university and medical school in the U.S. and is ranked among the best
medical schools in the U.S. (see report)
Gateway to Health Informatics (G2HI) provides certified training in health informatics using
a teaching model that delivers lectures and course work by distance
learning, augmented with classroom-based, face-to-face tutorials
conducted in Singapore. Active participation in the Course online
forum discussions is also encouraged.
The Course objective is to provide
rigorous, broad-based training in health
informatics to interested participants, especially individuals working
in the healthcare and healthcare-related industries, in Singapore and
countries in the region. The Course is similar to the
on-line BMI 510 - Introduction to
Biomedical Informatics class currently taught in the OHSU
Biomedical Informatics Graduate program.
G2HI is also similar to the American Medical
Informatics Association (AMIA) 10x10 Program offered by OHSU which was originally
developed as a partnership between AMIA and OHSU.
G2HI is
now endorsed by the American Medical Informatics Association as an
AMIA i10x10 (international 10x10) Course. Upon
successful completion of the Course, G2HI participants will be
awarded the highly branded AMIA i10x10
Certificate.
For students who are eligible for
graduate study (i.e. have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited
university), the AMIA i10x10
Certificate
will also earn
them three credit-hours that can be carried forward into the OHSU
graduate programs in medical
informatics or similar programs in other US universities that recognize
the AMIA 10x10 certificate training.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Course provides a
broad-based introduction to health informatics, the field concerned
with the acquisition, use, and storage of information in healthcare,
biomedical research, and public health. Students focus on the
underlying themes of health informatics, including the proper use of
information technology in health and biomedical settings. The course
also covers the main applications of information technology in health
and biomedicine, including electronic health records, information
retrieval, genomics, and telemedicine. The viewpoints of information
technology from medicine, computer science, nursing, public health,
patients/consumers are considered.
For more, see Course Description
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS COURSE
All individuals who desire to have certified
training in health informatics from OHSU (a recognized and accredited U.S.
university and medical school) and endorsed by the American Medical
Informatics Association. In particular, the G2HI course
is suitably tailored for
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IT professionals working or interested in
working in healthcare;
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Clinical,
medical, nursing and other healthcare-related professionals
interested in health information technology;
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IT
industry business leaders and managers dealing with IT systems and
solutions in healthcare;
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Senior
administrators and policy makers involved in organizational
transformation initiatives in health information technology;
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Research
scientists working on IT-based, healthcare-related projects;
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Individuals
interested in career opportunities in health information
technology.
Course Faculty
The online Course will be conducted by Professor William Hersh, Professor and Chair of the Department of
Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health &
Science University, USA. Professor Hersh will also be in
Singapore for the final Course tutorial to be held before the final
examination.
In addition, the two classroom-based tutorials
will be conducted by Professor KC Lun, former President of the International
Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and CEO, Gateway Consulting and other Singapore
health informatics practitioners appointed by Gateway Consulting.
For more, see
Faculty
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