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Informatics Education in Latin America

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Informatics Education in Healthcare

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Education in health informatics is a lifelong process that has to be adapted to provide what the students need in order to acquire the competencies that are necessary for the development of the discipline. Most of the experience in health informatics education comes from countries in Europe and North America. Thanks to different initiatives in countries in Latin America to develop a National eHealth agenda, there is a need to have trained professionals to accompany the growth and evolution of the discipline in the region. In this chapter we will describe the initiatives of four countries in the region spanning the experience of healthcare organizations, universities and government agencies to provide an overview of the different initiatives that are ongoing in the region. This overview also aims to describe the diverse training possibilities available and how the training needs have been addressed with local skills.

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Acknowledgements

We want to thank Maurizio Mattoli, Director of the Center of Biomedical Informatics—Universidad Del Desarrollo, Alejandro Mauro, Director of Biomedical Informatics, Clínica Alemana and Sandra Gutiérrez, Head of Human Capital at Centro Nacional en Sistemas de Informacion en Salud—CENS who helped with the section on Chile. We also want to thank Mildred de Lima, Stephanie Guirin, Rossana Occhiuzzi, Jorge Sandes and Patricia Valle who collaborated on the section on activities in Uruguay.

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  1. Department of Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Paula Otero, Mariela Leikam & Zulma Gonzalez

  2. Department of Nursing Informatics, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Heimar de Fatima Marin

  3. Department of Biomedical Informatics, DUOC UC Institute, Las Condes, Chile

    Ignacio Pérez Aravena

  4. Department of Medical Technology, School of Medicine, Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo, Uruguay

    Saadia Zawadzki

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Otero, P., Leikam, M., Gonzalez, Z., Marin, H.d.F., Aravena, I.P., Zawadzki, S. (2020). Informatics Education in Latin America. In: Berner, E.S. (eds) Informatics Education in Healthcare. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53813-2_13

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