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Training Health Care Professionals to Serve as Local Informatics Leaders and Champions

"Because we are serious about transforming our system of health care to be safe, efficient, timely, patient-centered, equitable, and effective, we must invest not only in technology, but also in the education and training of individuals to ensure our workforce is poised to meet this challenge. One of the factors most important to the success of health care information technology projects is the engagement and participation of clinicians. There must be a cadre of health care professionals (physicians, nurses, and others) who have knowledge and skills beyond their clinical training. Virtually every hospital, clinic, physician office, or other health care provider organization will in some way utilize information technology solutions in the coming years and will need health care professionals versed in informatics to assist with the implementation, use, and success of these systems."

Don E. Detmer, MD, MA
AMIA President & CEO

AMIA 10x10 Program

The AMIA 10x10 will utilize curricular content from existing informatics training programs and other AMIA educational initiatives with a special emphasis toward programs with a proven track record in distance learning. The content will provide a framework but also cover plenty of detail, especially in areas such as electronic and personal health records, health information exchange, standards and terminology, and health care quality and error prevention.

We anticipate AMIA 10x10 programs to be geared toward three major domains in the field of informatics:

• Clinical or health care including personal health management; electronic and personal health records; health information exchange; standards and terminology; and health care quality and error prevention.
• Public health/population informatics
• Translational bioinformatics

AMIA’s 10x10 will involve participants developing solutions to problems in real-world settings (ideally their own) guided by established informatics principles. Participants will have been exposed to a set of competencies that upon completion will enable them to serve as champions in their local hospitals, outpatient offices and clinics, and other health care settings to provide relevant informatics input into health information technology projects.

Intensive in-person sessions will be located around the country typically aligned with AMIA meetings, sometimes co-located at the institutions of higher education, or offered as satellite meetings to various professional informatics, medical, nursing or meetings of other health professional groups. These sessions will provide additional lectures, panel discussions, project work, and an opportunity for students to interact in-person with faculty who are luminaries in the field of informatics.

AMIA 10x10 Goal

AMIA believes that strengthening the breadth and depth of the health informatics workforce is a critical component in the transformation of the American health care system. AMIA is committed to the education and training of a new generation of biomedical and health informaticians to lead the transformation of the American health care system through the deployment and use of advanced clinical computing systems of care. The AMIA 10x10 Program's goal is to train 10,000 health care professionals in applied health and biomedical and health informatics by the year 2010. This training will be conducted in a wide range of settings across the United States by AMIA in collaboration with key strategic partners in the informatics education community. The AMIA membership includes thought leaders who are the most qualified to pursue this effort through their many current and future informatics training programs. These programs have a tradition of turning out the leading thinkers, dating back more than thirty years, many of whom are now at the forefront of the health information technology revolution.