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Mastering Health Informatics: Your Roadmap to Success

Explore the roadmap to a Health Informatics Master’s Degree and career in the field, presented by Fernando Plazzotta, MD. Learn about the training programs, competencies, and workforce development in this rapidly evolving sector in both developed and developing countries. Discover the transformational impact of information technologies on healthcare and the strategic shifts towards efficient health information management. Dive into a specialized curriculum designed for professionals in health, computer, and information sciences to develop essential skills for the modern healthcare system. Get insights into collaborative scholarship and advanced study tools to solve complex challenges in health information systems.

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Mastering Health Informatics: Your Roadmap to Success

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  1. Roadmap to Health Informatics Master’s Degree Fernando Plazzotta, MD, MSc.

  2. Agenda • Presenter • Introduction • Scenario • Roadmap • Residence in Medical Informatics • Health Informatics Specialist • Master’s Degree in Health Informatics HOSPITAL ITALIANO de Buenos Aires

  3. Fernando Plazzotta MD – Universidad de Buenos Aires Medical InformaticsSpecialist – HIBA Master in Telemedicine – Universitat de Catalunya Medical Informatics Associate Professor - IUHIBA Medical Informatics Senior Staff - HIBA Health Information Systems Advisor – Buenos Aires Province’s Health Ministry HOSPITAL ITALIANO de Buenos Aires

  4. Health Informatics

  5. Competencies for a Well-trained Biomedical and Health Informatics Workforce Otero P, Hersh W Luna D. González Bernaldo de Quirós F, Methods Inf Med. 2010;49(3):310-5.

  6. Building a health informatics workforce in developing countries. Health Aff (Millwood). 2010 Feb;29(2):274-7. Hersh W, Margolis A, Quirós F, Otero P.

  7. Training offers in Health Informatics Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

  8. Strategic shift in health information management • Governance Plan • 1998 → POMR • Legacy systems • Online census and ADT • Health Informatics Department • Outpatient EHR • ED HER • Web Migration • Terminology Services • PHR • Enterprise HER • Ubiquitous Health • HIMSS EMRAM 6 Proyecto Itálica

  9. In the year 2000, we started an educational project in Medical Informatics to train medical specialists in health information systems through a medical residency program HOSPITAL ITALIANO de Buenos Aires

  10. Medical Informatics Residece (*Later HI) • Paid postgraduate (in-service training) for doctors • 2012 → nurses • 3 - 4 years (Clinical training / 2 years of experience / previous residence) • Ministry of Education - Ministry of Health HOSPITAL ITALIANO de Buenos Aires

  11. A medical informatics distance-learning course for Latin America. Translation, implementation and evaluation. Methods Inf Med. 2010;49(3):310-5. Otero P1, Hersh W, Luna D, González Bernaldo de Quirós F.

  12. 33graduates 2001 - 2017 HOSPITAL ITALIANO de Buenos Aires

  13. Especialistas en Informática Médica: 10 años de experiencia de un programa de residencias médicas en Sudamérica • Analía Baum, Fernando Plazzotta, Daniela Canosa, Damián Borbolla, Paula Otero, Daniel Luna; Fernán González Bernaldo de Quiroz

  14. Introductionto BiomedicalInformatics HOSPITAL ITALIANO de Buenos Aires

  15. CollaborativeScholarship • MSc in Health Informatics

  16. Aimed at professionals interested in learning the complexity of this interdisciplinary field from their different perspectives, and in developing the necessary skills to address the different issues of health information systems.

  17. Why a Professional Masters’ Degree?

  18. Addressee Proffessionals: • HealthSciences, • Computer'sscience, • InformationSciences, • CommunicationSciences, • EngineeringSciences

  19. Goals • Develop the necessary skills to apply the principles of Computer, Communication and Information Sciences to the organization, analysis, management and use of information in the health system. • Acquire expertise in the master's degree study tools by deepening the training in theoretical, technological and research development, including the ability to address ethical issues in the field, effective communication in oral and written form and the development of a thesis.

  20. Goals • To be able to facilitate the advancement of new information technologies in the healthcare field, guaranteeing a continuous and quality care, improving resources and services’ efficiency of use. • Assume positions that require a deep knowledge of information technologies and health organizations endowed with creative thinking capable of solving problems and generating new knowledge in multidisciplinary work teams.

  21. FirstYear Syllabus

  22. ThankYou! Questions? • fernando.plazzotta@hospitalitaliano.org.ar • @ferplazzotta

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