TY - GEN
T1 - The University of Victoria Interdisciplinary Electronic Health Record Educational Portal
AU - Borycki, Elizabeth M.
AU - Kushniruk, Andre W.
AU - Joe, Ron
AU - Armstrong, Brian
AU - Otto, Tony
AU - Ho, Kendall
AU - Silverman, Howard
AU - Moreau, Jeannine
AU - Frisch, Noreen
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems is increasing globally. However, adoption rates of Health Information Systems (HISs) continue to remain poor. To improve adoption rates, there is need to provide greater HIS experience to health professionals and informaticians in health and biomedicine during their undergraduate and graduate education. A recent review of the health professional educational curricula (i.e., medicine, nursing, allied health and health/biomedical informatics) revealed that they provide only limited exposure to EHRs. In response to this educational need, the authors have developed the University of Victoria Interdisciplinary Electronic Health Record Educational Portal (UVicIED-EHR Portal). This unique, web-based portal allows students of the health professions and practicing professionals to access and interact with a set of representative EHR HIS solutions using the web. The portal, which links to several EMRs, EPRs and PHRs, has been used by several health professional educational programs in medicine, nursing and health informatics. It provides practicing health and health/biomedical informatics professionals, for example, managers and directors, with opportunities to access and review EHR systems. The portal has been used successfully in the classroom, laboratory and with distance education to give hands-on experience with a variety of HISs and their components.
AB - Use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems is increasing globally. However, adoption rates of Health Information Systems (HISs) continue to remain poor. To improve adoption rates, there is need to provide greater HIS experience to health professionals and informaticians in health and biomedicine during their undergraduate and graduate education. A recent review of the health professional educational curricula (i.e., medicine, nursing, allied health and health/biomedical informatics) revealed that they provide only limited exposure to EHRs. In response to this educational need, the authors have developed the University of Victoria Interdisciplinary Electronic Health Record Educational Portal (UVicIED-EHR Portal). This unique, web-based portal allows students of the health professions and practicing professionals to access and interact with a set of representative EHR HIS solutions using the web. The portal, which links to several EMRs, EPRs and PHRs, has been used by several health professional educational programs in medicine, nursing and health informatics. It provides practicing health and health/biomedical informatics professionals, for example, managers and directors, with opportunities to access and review EHR systems. The portal has been used successfully in the classroom, laboratory and with distance education to give hands-on experience with a variety of HISs and their components.
KW - Biomedical informatics education
KW - EHR
KW - EPR
KW - Health informatics education
KW - Medical education
KW - Nursing education
KW - PHR
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-58603-979-0-49
DO - 10.3233/978-1-58603-979-0-49
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 19380914
AN - SCOPUS:67449088812
SN - 9781586039790
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 49
EP - 54
BT - Advances in Information Technology and Communication in Health
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 2009 Conference on Advances in Information Technology and Communication in Health: Revolutionizing Health Care with Informatics - From Research to Practice, ITCH 2009
Y2 - 19 February 2009 through 22 February 2009
ER -