Title page -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Governance -- Virtual University Governance -- Comparative Educational Systems -- Academic Standards, Credit Transfers and Associated Issues -- Student and Teacher Exchanges - Criteria for Access -- Gaining Support from Health Disciplines and Other Stakeholders -- Curricula and Degree Structures (Outcomes and Recognition) -- A Health Informatics Educational Framework -- Curricula in Medical Informatics -- Competencies and Credentialing: Nursing Informatics -- Health Informatics Needs Regulation and Registration to Add Value Recognition -- Educational Standards - Terminologies Used -- Future Trends in Health Informatics -- Delivery and Evaluation Methods (Pedagogy and Andragogy) -- Current and Future Trends in Teaching and Learning -- Cognitive Theories and the Design of E-Learning Environments -- Self Directed and Lifelong Learning -- Managing Large Online Classes Across Multiple Locations -- Evolutionary Epistemology and Dynamical Virtual Learning Networks -- The Role of Evaluation in Web-Based Education -- Student Support Infrastructure -- International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Working Group on Health and Medical Informatics Education WG1 -- Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Health and Medical Informatics -- Authors -- Glossary -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

Throughout the world, healthcare professionals often lack knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of systematically processing data, information and knowledge and of the resulting impact on quality decision-making. They are often asked to use information technologies of which they have limited appreciation, in order to enhance their practices through better use of information resources. However, for systematically processing data, information and knowledge in medicine and in healthcare, healthcare professionals who are well-trained in medical informatics or health informatics are needed. It will only be through improved education of healthcare professionals and through an increase in the number of well-trained workers in health and medical informatics that this lack of knowledge and associated skills can begin to be reversed. Although we can recognize further progress in educating health and a considerable number of educational programs for health informatics / medical informatics specialists have been set up, there is still a need to enhance these educational activities world wide, considering global developments as well as new curricular concepts and technological opportunities. IMIA and in particular its working group on health and medical informatics education is the leading international society stimulating such educational activities in various ways. This book is especially helpful for educators in the field of health / medical informatics.

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