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DOI: 10.3414/ME16-01-0124
On Teaching International Courses on Health Information Systems
Lessons Learned during 16 Years of Frank – van Swieten Lectures on Strategic Information Management in Health Information SystemsCorrespondence to:
Publication History
received:
21 October 2016
accepted:
18 February 2017
Publication Date:
31 January 2018 (online)
Summary
Background: Health information systems (HIS) are one of the most important areas for biomedical and health informatics. In order to professionally deal with HIS well-educated informaticians are needed. Because of these reasons, in 2001 an international course has been established: The Frank - van Swieten Lectures on Strategic Information Management of Health Information Systems.
Objectives: Reporting about the Frank - van Swieten Lectures and about our students’ feedback on this course during the last 16 years. Summarizing our lessons learned and making recommendations for such international courses on HIS.
Methods: The basic concept of the Frank -van Swieten lectures is to teach the theoretical background in local lectures, to organize practical exercises on modelling sub-information systems of the respective local HIS and finally to conduct Joint Three Days as an international meeting were the resulting models are introduced and compared.
Results: During the last 16 years, the Universities of Amsterdam, Braunschweig, Heidelberg/Heilbronn, Leipzig as well as UMIT were involved in running this course. Overall, 517 students from these universities participated. Our students’ feedback was clearly positive. The Joint Three Days of the Frank - van Swieten Lectures, where at the end of the course all students can meet, turned out to be an important component of this course. Based on the last 16 years, we recommend common teaching materials, agreement on equivalent clinical areas for the exercises, support of group building of international student groups, motivation of using a collaboration platform, ensuring quality management of the course, addressing different levels of knowledge of the students, and ensuring sufficient funding for joint activities.
Conclusions: Although associated with considerable additional efforts, we can clearly recommend establishing such international courses on HIS, such as the Frank -van Swieten Lectures.
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Keywords
Education - strategic information management - health information systems - medical informatics - biomedical informatics - health informatics
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References
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- 3 Al-Shorbaji N. The World Health Assembly resolutions on eHealth: eHealth in support of universal health coverage. Methods Inf Med 2013; 52: 463-466.
- 4 World Health Organization.. Global Observatory for eHealth [cited 2016 May 14]. Available from: http://www.who.int/goe/en/.
- 5 Kay M, Santos J. Report on the World Health Organization Global Observatory for eHealth strategic planning workshop, April 2008. Methods Inf Med 2008; 47: 381-387.
- 6 Reichertz PL. Hospital information systems - past, present, future. Key-note address during ‘Medical Informatics Europe 84, 5th Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Brussels, September 10-13, 1984. Reprinted and first published in [7].
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- 10 Haux R. Medical informatics: past, present, future. Int J Med Inform 2010; 79: 599-610.
- 11 Jahn F, Issler L, Winter A, Takabayashi K. Comparing a Japanese and a German hospital information system. Methods Inf Med 2009; 48: 531-539.
- 12 Stroetmann KA, Artmann J, Stroetmann V. Developing national eHealth infrastructures - results and lessons from Europe. Proc AMIA Ann Symp 2011; 1347-1354.
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- 14 International Medical Informatics Association, Working Group 1: Health and Medical Informatics Education.. Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on education in health and medical informatics. Methods Inf Med 2000; 39: 267-277.
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- 20 Macedo AA, Ruiz ES, Baranauskas JA. Survey of the Job Profiles of Biomedical Informatics Graduates. Methods Inf Med 2016; 55: 473-477.
- 21 Jaspers MW, Gardner RM, Gatewood LC, Haux R, Leven FJ. et al. IPHIE: an International Partnership in Health Informatics Education. Stud Health Technol Inform 2000; 77: 549-553.
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- 27 Winter A, Haux R. A three-level graph-based model for the management of hospital information systems. Methods Inf Med 1995; 34: 378-396.
- 28 Winter A, Brigl B, Funkat G, Häber A, Heller O, Wendt T. 3LGM2-modeling to support management of health information systems. Int J Med Inform 2007; 76: 145-150.
- 29 Stäubert S, Schaaf M, Jahn F, Brandner R, Winter A. Modeling Interoperable Information Systems with 3LGM2 and IHE. Methods Inf Med 2015; 54: 398-405.
- 30 Brechka FT. Gerard van Swieten and his world 1700-1772. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff;; 1970
- 31 Fernández-Guerrero IM, Fernández-Guerrero C, Fernández-Cano A. A pioneering on medical education: The seminal text of J.P. Frank’s De medicis peregrinationibus - Medical travels (1792). Educación Médica 2016; 17: 29-34.
- 32 Frank JP. A system of complete medical police. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press;; 1976
- 33 Gerster AG. The life and times of Gerhardt van Swieten. Johns Hopkins Hosp Bull 1909; 20 (Suppl. 219) 161-168.
- 34 Sechel TD. The emergence of the medical profession in Transylvania (1770-1848). In: Karady V, Török BZ. editors. Cultural dimensions of elite formation in Transylvania (1770-1950). Cluj-Na-poca: EDRC Foundation; 2008. p. 95-114.
- 35 Sigerist H. The people’s misery: mother of diseases. An address, delivered in 1790 by Johann Peter Frank in Pavia. Translated from the Latin, with an introduction. Bull Hist Med 1941; 9: 81-100.
- 36 Curioso WH, Fuller S, Garcia PJ, Holmes KK, Kimball AM. Ten years of international collaboration in biomedical informatics and beyond: the AMAUTA program in Peru. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2010; 17: 477-480.
- 37 Haux R, Ammenwerth E, Häber A, Hübner-Bloder G, Knaup-Gregori P, Lechleitner G, Leiner F, Weber R, Winter A, Wolff AC. Medical informatics education needs information system practicums in health care settings - experiences and lessons learned from 32 practicums at four universities in two countries. Methods Inf Med 2006; 45: 294-299.
- 38 Laxer C, Daniels M, Cajander A, Wollowski M. Evolution of an International Collaborative Student Project. ACE ‘09 Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Conference on Computing Education 2009; 95: 111-118.
- 39 Wihlborg M, Friberg E. Framework for a virtual nursing faculty and student learning collaboration between universities in Sweden and the United States: A theoretical paper. Nurse Educ Today 2016; 41: 50-53.
- 40 Gatewood L, Limburg M, Gardner R, Haux R, Jaspers M, Schmidt D. et al. International Master Classes in health informatics. Int J Med Inform 2004; 73: 111-116.