Conference proceeding
Health Informatics Community Priming in a Small Nation: The New Zealand Experience
MEDINFO 2013: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH WORLD CONGRESS ON MEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS, PTS 1 AND 2, Vol.192(1-2), p.950
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO 2013) (Copenhagen, Denmark, 10/08/2013–13/08/2013)
01/01/2013
PMID: 23920724
Abstract
New Zealand (NZ) has a rapidly expanding health information technology (IT) development industry and wide-ranging use of informatics, especially in the primary health sector. The New Zealand government through the National Health IT Board (NHITB) has promised to provide shared care health records of core information for all New Zealanders by 2014. One of the major barriers to improvement in IT use in healthcare is the dearth of trained and interested clinicians, management and technical workforce. Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ) and the academic community in New Zealand are attempting to remedy this by raising awareness of health informatics at the grass roots level via free "primer" workshops and by developing a sustainable cross-institutional model of educational opportunities. Support from the NHITB has been forthcoming, and the workshops start in early 2013. This poster presents the process, development and preliminary findings of this work.
Details
- Title
- Health Informatics Community Priming in a Small Nation: The New Zealand Experience
- Authors/Creators
- David Parry - Auckland University of TechnologyInga Hunter - Massey UniversityMichelle Honey - University of AucklandAlec Holt - Univ Otago, Dept Informat Sci, Dunedin, New ZealandKaren Day - University of AucklandRay Kirk - University of CanterburyRowena Cullen - Victoria Univ, Sch Informat Management, Wellington, New Zealand
- Contributors
- C U Lehmann (Editor)E Ammenwerth (Editor)C Nohr (Editor)
- Publication Details
- MEDINFO 2013: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH WORLD CONGRESS ON MEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS, PTS 1 AND 2, Vol.192(1-2), p.950
- Conference
- 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO 2013) (Copenhagen, Denmark, 10/08/2013–13/08/2013)
- Series
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
- Publisher
- IOS Press
- Number of pages
- 1
- Identifiers
- 991005618239607891
- Copyright
- © 2013 IMIA and IOS Press.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
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