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Bichel-Findlay J, Koch S, Mantas J, Abdul SS, Al-Shorbaji N, Ammenwerth E, Baum A, Borycki EM, Demiris G, Hasman A, Hersh W, Hovenga E, Huebner UH, Huesing ES, Kushniruk A, Hwa Lee K, Lehmann CU, Lillehaug SI, Marin HF, Marschollek M, Martin-Sanchez F, Merolli M, Nishimwe A, Saranto K, Sent D, Shachak A, Udayasankaran JG, Were MC, Wright G. Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics: Second Revision. Int J Med Inform 2023; 170:104908. [PMID: 36502741 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The purpose of educational recommendations is to assist in establishing courses and programs in a discipline, to further develop existing educational activities in the various nations, and to support international initiatives for collaboration and sharing of courseware. The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) has published two versions of its international recommendations in biomedical and health informatics (BMHI) education, initially in 2000 and revised in 2010. Given the recent changes to the science, technology, the needs of the healthcare systems, and the workforce of BMHI, a revision of the recommendations is necessary. OBJECTIVE The aim of these updated recommendations is to support educators in developing BMHI curricula at different education levels, to identify essential skills and competencies for certification of healthcare professionals and those working in the field of BMHI, to provide a tool for evaluators of academic BMHI programs to compare and accredit the quality of delivered programs, and to motivate universities, organizations, and health authorities to recognize the need for establishing and further developing BMHI educational programs. METHOD An IMIA taskforce, established in 2017, updated the recommendations. The taskforce included representatives from all IMIA regions, with several having been involved in the development of the previous version. Workshops were held at different IMIA conferences, and an international Delphi study was performed to collect expert input on new and revised competencies. RESULTS Recommendations are provided for courses/course tracks in BMHI as part of educational programs in biomedical and health sciences, health information management, and informatics/computer science, as well as for dedicated programs in BMHI (leading to bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree). The educational needs are described for the roles of BMHI user, BMHI generalist, and BMHI specialist across six domain areas - BMHI core principles; health sciences and services; computer, data and information sciences; social and behavioral sciences; management science; and BMHI specialization. Furthermore, recommendations are provided for dedicated educational programs in BMHI at the level of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. These are the mainstream academic programs in BMHI. In addition, recommendations for continuing education, certification, and accreditation procedures are provided. CONCLUSION The IMIA recommendations reflect societal changes related to globalization, digitalization, and digital transformation in general and in healthcare specifically, and center on educational needs for the healthcare workforce, computer scientists, and decision makers to acquire BMHI knowledge and skills at various levels. To support education in BMHI, IMIA offers accreditation of quality BMHI education programs. It supports information exchange on programs and courses in BMHI through its Working Group on Health and Medical Informatics Education.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Health Informatics Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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- Health Informatics Lab, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
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- UMIT - Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria
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- Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Health Informatics Department, Argentina
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- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, United States
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- Department of Medical Informatics Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, United States
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- Digital Health, Australian Catholic University, Australia
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- Hochschule Osnabrueck - University AS Osnabrueck, Department of Business Management and Social Sciences, Germany
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- School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada
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- Department of Information Medicine, Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan College of Medicine, South Korea
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- Clinical Informatics Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
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- Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Germany
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- Department of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Health Informatics Program, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Rwanda
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- Health and Human Services Informatics, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
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- Department of Medical Informatics Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Dalla Lana School of Public Health), University of Toronto, Canada
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Wang Q, S Abdul S, Almeida L, Ananiadou S, Balderas-Martínez YI, Batista-Navarro R, Campos D, Chilton L, Chou HJ, Contreras G, Cooper L, Dai HJ, Ferrell B, Fluck J, Gama-Castro S, George N, Gkoutos G, Irin AK, Jensen LJ, Jimenez S, Jue TR, Keseler I, Madan S, Matos S, McQuilton P, Milacic M, Mort M, Natarajan J, Pafilis E, Pereira E, Rao S, Rinaldi F, Rothfels K, Salgado D, Silva RM, Singh O, Stefancsik R, Su CH, Subramani S, Tadepally HD, Tsaprouni L, Vasilevsky N, Wang X, Chatr-Aryamontri A, Laulederkind SJF, Matis-Mitchell S, McEntyre J, Orchard S, Pundir S, Rodriguez-Esteban R, Van Auken K, Lu Z, Schaeffer M, Wu CH, Hirschman L, Arighi CN. Overview of the interactive task in BioCreative V. Database (Oxford) 2016; 2016:baw119. [PMID: 27589961 PMCID: PMC5009325 DOI: 10.1093/database/baw119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2016] [Accepted: 07/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
Abstract
Fully automated text mining (TM) systems promote efficient literature searching, retrieval, and review but are not sufficient to produce ready-to-consume curated documents. These systems are not meant to replace biocurators, but instead to assist them in one or more literature curation steps. To do so, the user interface is an important aspect that needs to be considered for tool adoption. The BioCreative Interactive task (IAT) is a track designed for exploring user-system interactions, promoting development of useful TM tools, and providing a communication channel between the biocuration and the TM communities. In BioCreative V, the IAT track followed a format similar to previous interactive tracks, where the utility and usability of TM tools, as well as the generation of use cases, have been the focal points. The proposed curation tasks are user-centric and formally evaluated by biocurators. In BioCreative V IAT, seven TM systems and 43 biocurators participated. Two levels of user participation were offered to broaden curator involvement and obtain more feedback on usability aspects. The full level participation involved training on the system, curation of a set of documents with and without TM assistance, tracking of time-on-task, and completion of a user survey. The partial level participation was designed to focus on usability aspects of the interface and not the performance per se. In this case, biocurators navigated the system by performing pre-designed tasks and then were asked whether they were able to achieve the task and the level of difficulty in completing the task. In this manuscript, we describe the development of the interactive task, from planning to execution and discuss major findings for the systems tested. Database URL:http://www.biocreative.org
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Affiliation(s)
- Qinghua Wang
- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711, USA Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711, USA
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- International Centre of Health Information Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- DETI/IEETA, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro 3810-193, Portugal
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- National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, New Castle, UK
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- Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, NJ 08102, USA
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- Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 Ciudad de México, México
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taitung University, Taitung, Taiwan
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- College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 St. Augustin, Germany
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- Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 Ciudad de México, México
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- College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Centre for Computational Biology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Institute of Translational Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Life Science Informatics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Blue Brain Project, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Biotech Campus, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales NSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 St. Augustin, Germany
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- DETI/IEETA, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro 3810-193, Portugal
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- Department of Informatics and Bio-Computing, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON M5G0A3, Canada
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- HGMD, Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI), Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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- Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Informatics and Bio-Computing, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON M5G0A3, Canada
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- GMGF, Aix-Marseille Universite, 13385 Marseille, France Inserm, UMR_S 910, 13385 Marseille, France
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- Department of Medical Sciences, iBiMED & IEETA, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Taipei Medical University Graduate Institute of Biomedical informatics, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Institute of Sport and Physical Activity Research (ISPAR), University of Bedfordshire, Bedford, UK
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- Ontology Development Group, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- WormBase Consortium, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, UK
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- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, UK
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- WormBase Consortium, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- MaizeGDB USDA ARS and University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711, USA Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711, USA Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711, USA
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