WEBINAR:  ICE Health IT Initiative

Health Information Technology: The Need for a Competent Workforce
Tuesday, December 8 
12:30-2:00 MTN

 

Archive version of webinar

 

Presentation slides are available for printing.

 

 

Join your ICE colleagues at other member institutions

  • Hear about current HIT workforce needs and programs addressing them
  • Share information about your current online offerings in this arena
  • Learn how to share high quality online HIT courses via ICE
  • Discuss your interests in collaborating with your colleagues on developing and delivering HIT online courses (undergraduate and graduate)


With the electronic health record (EHR) adoption goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, there will be an increasing need for a workforce that is well-trained to implement EHRs and other clinical informatics applications. Yet we know very little about how the health information technology (HIT) workforce is organized in different health care settings. We know even less about the proper role for individuals who are trained in clinical (or related) informatics disciplines, including what jobs need knowledge and skills in clinical informatics. The goal of this talk is to review the literature of what is known about the HIT workforce and to describe educational programs addressing the need, including the biomedical and health informatics program at Oregon Health & Science University.

 

Presenters 

Picture of William HershDr. William Hersh, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University

William Hersh, M.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. Dr. Hersh is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics both in education and research. In education, he developed and serves as Director of all of OHSU’s graduate biomedical informatics education programs: the Master of Science, the Master of Biomedical Informatics, the Graduate Certificate, and the Doctor of Philosophy. He also led the development of OHSU’s distance learning programs, which are available up to the master’s degree level. Dr. Hersh also conceptualized and implemented the first offering of the AMIA 10x10 program, which aims to educate 10,000 health care professionals and others in medical informatics by the year 2010. In addition to being an educator, he leads an active research program, with recent efforts focusing on characterizing the health information technology workforce.

Picture of Pat SheaPat Shea, Director, WICHE ICE

Pat Shea  is director of Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) Internet Course Exchange (ICE), a consortium of regionally accredited institutions of higher education exchanging high quality e-learning courses and programs in response to student, state, and workforce needs.  For WICHE she also directs the Western Academic Leadership Forum (WALF), providing academic leaders at master’s level and doctoral institutions in WICHE’s 15 member states with the opportunities to exchange ideas and information, share resources and expertise, and collaborate on regional initiatives. Prior to these positions, Shea was assistant director of WCET for which she headed its research efforts in best practices in student services online and directed the development of its academic program for the annual conference.

 

Instructions

This online webinar will facilitate the presentations by the speakers and interactive audio with the participants, either by phone or by voice over IP (VoIP), using a USB microphone headset.
 

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Audio Participation Instructions:

  • To participate by VoIP:

    • Connect USB microphone headset to computer.
    • In the Elluminate conference, complete the Audio Setup Wizard (Tools -> Audio -> Audio Setup Wizard)
      Screenshot of Audio Setup Wizard
  • To participate by phone conference:

    • Log into the web conference
    • Click on the phone icon in the Audio – Teleconference area of the screen, lower left. Dial in with the number provided there.
      Screenshot of Teleconference Audio Dial

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