Table 2.
Inventory of competencies in biomedical and health informatics.
| Organization or Journal [Reference] | Year | Discipline | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Association for Computing Machinery [49] | 1978 | Computer science | Health Computing: Curriculum for an Emerging Profession |
| [50] | 1992 | Informatics | Recommendations of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology |
| Association of American Medical Colleges [51] | 1999 | Medical students | Medical School Objectives Project: Medical Informatics |
| International Medical Informatics Association [52] | 2000 | Informatics | Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on education in health and medical informatics (updated in 2010) |
| UK National Health Service [53] | 2001 | Informatics | Health Informatics Competency Profiles for the NHS |
| American Nurses Association [54] | 2001 | Nursing | A Delphi Study to Determine Informatics Competencies for Nurses at Four Levels of Practice |
| University of Waterloo, Canada [29] | 2001 | Informatics | Pointing the Way: Competencies and Curricula in Health Informatics |
| Northwest Center for Public Health Practice [55] | 2002 | Public health professionals | Informatics Competencies for Public Health Professionals |
| American Association of Critical-Care Nurses [56] | 2003 | Nurse Practitioners | Informatics Competencies for Nurse Practitioners |
| Advances in Dental Research [57] | 2003 | Dental Researchers | Biomedical informatics training for dental researchers |
| American College of Medical Informatics [58] | 2004 | Bioinformatics | Training the Next Generation of Informaticians: The Impact of “BISTI” and Bioinformatics |
| Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education [59] | 2005 | Health Information Management | HIM Baccalaureate Degree Program Standards |
| Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education [60] | 2005 | Health Information Management | HIM Associate Degree Program Standards |
| International Journal of Medical Informatics [61] | 2005 | Nursing | Nursing informatics knowledge and competencies: a national survey of nursing education programs in the United States |
| Australia [62] | 2006 | Informatics | Australian Health Informatics Educational Framework |
| Journal of Internet Research [63] | 2006 | “Information age” students | Health information literacy and competencies of information age students |
| UK Council of Health Informatics Professionals [64] | 2007 | Informatics | Health Informatics National Occupational Standards |
| Medical Library Association [65] | 2007 | Health Science Librarians | Health Information Science Knowledge and Skills |
| Methods of Information in Medicine [66] | 2007 | Informatics | Benchmarking Statement |
| Health Informatics Journal [46] | 2007 | Informatics | Competencies for graduate curricula in health, medical and biomedical informatics: a framework |
| COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association [67] | 2007 | Informatics | Health Informatics Professional Core Competencies |
| American Nurses Association [34] | 2008 | Nursing | Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice |
| Nursing Clinics of North America [68] | 2008 | Nursing | Technology and informatics competencies |
| AMIA-OHSU 10x10 Course [69] | 2009 | Informatics | AMIA-OHSU 10x10 Program - Detailed Curriculum, Learning Objectives |
| AMIA Core Content for Clinical Informatics [35] | 2009 | Informatics | Core content for certification of physicians (with others to follow later) |
| TIGER Nursing Informatics [70] | 2009 | Nursing Informatics | TIGER Informatics Competencies Collaborative (TICC) Final Report |
| Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT [71] | 2009 | Electronic health record adoption | HIT Workforce Competencies by Role |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, [72] | 2009 | Informatics | Public Health Informatics Competencies |
| International Medical Informatics Association [73] | 2010 | Informatics | Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on education in biomedical and health informatics |