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Building health informatics skills for health professionals: results from the Australian Health Informatics Skill Needs Survey
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Australian Health Review
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February 1, 2006
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Abstract
Objective: To ascertain health professionals' perceptions of health informatics skills required in their roles.
Design: A paper-based survey with a stratified random sample of Australian health professionals and a web-based survey open to all Australian health professionals were conducted.
Measurement: A questionnaire on the health professionals' perceived degree of competency required for a total of 69 specific skills in five skill categories based on the International Medical Informatics Association's (IMIA) set of recommendations on education and IMIA's scientific map.
Results: 462 health professionals responded to the paper-based questionnaire, and 167 respondents to the ...