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March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Approved in November 2008 by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) board of directors, the Program Requirements for Fellowship Education for the Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics document details the knowledge and skills to be mastered in fellowship education.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in March 2007 for the development of two required documents for the creation of clinical informatics as a medical subspecialty. This paper examines both the context and purpose of the documents, as well as their role in AMIA's structure.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The Core Content for Clinical Informatics document outlines four major areas of knowledge and understanding: common vocabulary and environmental understanding, clinical systems, information systems, and management skills to lead through system changes.
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Formalizing nurse assessment of patients' readiness for discharge could identify at-risk patients and reduce avoidable health care use.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
For almost a decade, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has supported major efforts in enhancing the field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) as part of their larger efforts toward advancing the science and practice of pub ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study examines the approaches used by public health practice-based research networks (PBRNs) to expand delivery system research and evidence-based practice in public health settings.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article introduces Public Health Law Research as an integral part of Public Health Systems and Services Research; discusses the challenges of integrating the two fields; and highlights two examples of current research that demonstrate the benef ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
These researchers propose a standardized case definition, common metrics, and a taxonomy of quality improvement (QI) projects to begin building the evidence base for QI in public health, and to advance the science of continuous quality improvement.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article discusses the current state of public health finance research through a review of public health finance literature, chronicles important lessons learned from public health finance research to date, discusses the challenges faced by thos ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Public health practitioners and researchers often refer to state public health systems as being centralized, decentralized, shared, or mixed. These categories refer to governance of the local public health units within the state and whether they ope ...