Bridging the Gap in Medical Informatics and Health Services Research
Workshop Results and Next Steps
- Affiliations of the authors: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland (MC, MAC); Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland (KAR)>
- Correspondence and reprints: Marjorie A. Cahn, MA, Head, NICHSR, National Library of Medicine, 8600 rockville Pike, building 38A, Room 4S-410, Mail Stop 20, Bethesda, MD 20894; e-mail: <cahn{at}nlm.nih.gov>
- Received 27 May 2001
- Accepted 20 November 2001
Abstract
In January 2000, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) cosponsored an invitational workshop entitled “Medical Informatics and Health Services Research: Bridging the Gap.” Planned by a small committee of representatives from NLM and AHRQ institutional training centers, the workshop was designed to address the need for education of researchers interested in working at the intersection of the fields of medical informatics and health services research. More than 100 educators and researchers from AHRQ- and NLM-sponsored training programs in medical informatics and health services research participated in the workshop. Through a series of plenary presentations and breakout sessions, the workshop addressed ways of increasing the pool of persons interested, trained, and experienced in addressing specific areas of synergy between the two fields. This paper reports on the results of the workshop.
Footnotes
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↵* For definitions of the fields and delineation of their differences, see Mandl and Lee1 in this issue.
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↵† Information on AHRQ-funded programs may be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/training/t32.htm, and information on NLM-funded programs may be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/curr_inst_grantees.html (both accessed Oct 3, 2001).
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↵‡ For more information on the workshop goals and objectives, plenary session presentations, and breakout session reports, see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/mihsr/agenda.html (accessed Oct 3, 2001) and the papers by Humphreys et al.,2 Mandl and Lee,1 and Shortliffe and Garber3 in this issue.
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↵§ Information on this initiative may be found at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-LM-01-001.html. Accessed Oct 3, 2001.
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↵∥ Information on this initiative may be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2001/clipspr.htm. Accessed Oct 3, 2001.
