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A Collaborative Approach To Health Informatics Capacity Building - Learning From Canadian Practice In Fostering Research And Education, Ping Yu, Marilynne Herbert, Francis Lau
A Collaborative Approach To Health Informatics Capacity Building - Learning From Canadian Practice In Fostering Research And Education, Ping Yu, Marilynne Herbert, Francis Lau
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
Objectives: Canada and Australia share two priority areas for HI workforce capacity building: to support research and education. This presentation will discuss a collaborative, nationwide health informatics (HI) PhD/Postdoc training program in Canada, which demonstrates a potential solution to meet these priorities. The status of HI higher education in Australia is briefly reviewed. The potential solution in resolving workforce shortage in Australia through adopting overseas practice is discussed, such as implementing a similar collaborative HI research training program across the country. Background: A Think Tank organized by Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing in 2003 explored the issue of HI …
Exploring End-User Perceptions Towards Mandated Deployment Of Pda-Based Health Information Systems Within Ambulatory Care, Jason P. Sargent, Lois Burgess, Joan Cooper, Carole Alcock, Damien Ryan
Exploring End-User Perceptions Towards Mandated Deployment Of Pda-Based Health Information Systems Within Ambulatory Care, Jason P. Sargent, Lois Burgess, Joan Cooper, Carole Alcock, Damien Ryan
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
The impact of many well intentioned technology integration projects has not always been viewed favourably. In fact, many projects are destined to fail from the outset by not considering fundamental IT system inves tment risks (technical failure, data failure, user failure, organizational failure) [Lyytinen & Hirschiem, 1987]. With any new technology ‘an element of uncertainty exists in the minds of decision makers with respect to the successful adoption of them’ [Bagozzi et al, 1992]. Uncertainty towards adopting new technologies is not solely the domain of decision makers. Apart from chief technology and information officers, system administrators and help desk personnel, …