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New AMIA 10x10 Program Partner -- University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Posted on: Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 12:32 CDT

BETHESDA, Md., March 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AMIA is pleased to announce the formal partnership of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing (UMN) in the AMIA 10x10 program. Bonnie Westra, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Nursing Minimum Data Set Knowledge Discovery, will serve as the Director of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing 10x10 offering.

"The University of Minnesota has adapted its tried and true graduate level informatics course required of all our masters and DNP students to a self-paced online continuing education course," remarked Dr. Westra. "This course offers the opportunity to gain an understanding of workflow processes, standards for the electronic health records, and how nurses can participate to assure systems support their work in providing safe and effective patient care. Nurses need to be prepared to advocate for technology to match and support their workflow as part of an interdisciplinary team."

The course is offered as an online internet-based continuing education course. Students register for the course and complete 13 web-based modules starting the week of April 6, 2009. Each module contains a brief introduction to the content, learning objectives, an Adobe UMConnect presentation, reading assignments, use of web resources, and a quiz.

The AMIA 10x10 at UMN course offering will start the week of April 6, 2009, with the course finishing up in early July. The registration deadline is March 31, 2009. Complete course description and registration is available on the AMIA Web site at: http://www.amia.org/course-details.

The goal of the AMIA-UMN-School of Nursing 10x10 course is to examine the implications of informatics for practice, including nursing, public health, and healthcare in general. It will discuss electronic health record issues; relate ethical, legislative and political issues of informatics; and explore global and future informatics issues.

Topics that will be covered by the AMIA 10x10 Program at UMN include:

1. Informatics Competencies/Theories/Framework
2. Historical Evaluation/Informatics Roles
3. Electronic Health Record (EHR) Mandate
4. System Design/Reengineering
5. Health Information Systems Life
6. Emerging Technologies/Data-Bases
7. Healthcare Data Sets/Vocabulary Standards Supporting EHR
8. Reference Terminology/EHR Architecture
9. Health Information Systems Standards and Evaluation
10. Evaluation and Technology Assessment
11. Professional and Consumer Resources
12. Clinical Decision Support/EBP Innovative Technology
13. Cultural/Innovative Technology

About AMIA

AMIA is the professional home for biomedical and health informatics. AMIA is dedicated to promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care in support of patient care, public health, teaching, research, administration, and related policy. AMIA's 4,000 members advance the use of health information and communications technology in clinical care and clinical research, personal health management, public health/population, and translational science with the ultimate objective of improving health. Complete information about AMIA is available at: www.amia.org.

Contact: Colleen Wood 301-657-1291 x106 colleen@amia.org

SOURCE American Medical Informatics Association

Source: PR Newswire

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