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Health Professionals' Education in the Age of Clinical Information Systems, Mobile Computing and Social Networks
Presents an overview of the challenges posed by information and communication technology and its relationship to health professionals’ education
Aviv Shachak (Edited by), Elizabeth Borycki (Edited by), Shmuel P. Reis (Edited by)
9780128053621
Paperback, published 28 July 2017
530 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.3 cm, 1.04 kg
Health Professionals' Education in the Age of Clinical Information Systems, Mobile Computing and Social Networks addresses the challenges posed by information and communication technology to health professionals’ education, and the lessons learned from field experiences and research. This book is divided in three parts: "the changing landscape of information and communication technology in health care", in which it discusses how information and communication technology is transforming health care and the implications of these changes for health professions education; "experiences from the field", with real-life examples of health professionals’ education in and for the digital era; and "evaluation of students and programs", addressing the use of technology to assess learners as well as the complexity of evaluating programs to enhance competence in an information technology-rich health care world Written by leading researchers from different parts of the world, the book is a valuable source for educators and professionals who are active or wish to be part of the health informatics field.
Part 1: The changing landscape of information and communication technology (ICT) in health care: implications for health professionals’ education1. Challenges in using clinical information systems2. Patient safety and quality assurance thrusts in digital healthcare and their influence on clinicians and patients3. The changing nature of the patient-clinician relationships4. Patients’ use of ICT and its implications5. Drowning in (big) data: self-tracking and the quantified self movement6. Vison(s) for health professions education of the 21st Century Part 2: Experiences from the field7. Medical and other health professions’ schools for the 21st century8. Training clinicians in informatics Part 3: Evidence from research9. Barriers to accessing technology for teaching clinical students, residents, and practitioners in and out of academia10. Academic educator competencies in teaching exam room computing and informatics11. Knowledge and attitudes of learners and teachers about aspects of healthcare in the digital world12. Influence of interventions on presence and behaviour of learners and practitioners in social media13. Digital natives and tourists in health IT14. Integration of clinical and educational interventions: How when and where?15. How to evaluate educational interventions to prepare health professionals for the challenges of the information age? (methodological focus)What have we learned? Findings from evaluation studies Summary and Future Research Directions
Subject Areas: Molecular biology [PSD], Biomedical engineering [MQW]