The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced the establishment of a nonprofit subsidiary to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on health informatics.
A goal of the new Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) is to build grassroots networks of health informatics advocates and professionals to strengthen health informatics capability in economically constrained countries in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America.
Robert Mayes, formerly a senior advisor at the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's health IT program, has been appointed as GHIP's executive director, according to Edward Shortliffe, MD, AMIA's president and CEO.
The new organization hopes to enable a global community of health informatics professionals and practitioners to share expertise in health information systems and tools, informatics competencies, and capacity building. It also plans to establish local and regional communities of practice in which experience and knowledge can be leveraged to benefit patients and the healthcare workforce in resource-constrained countries.
Mayes and colleagues will introduce prototype informatics training modules designed for community health workers in Cape Town, South Africa, in mid-September.
Bethesda, MD-based AMIA is a professional association of informatics professionals dedicated to promoting healthcare informatics in support of patient care, public health, teaching, research, administration, and related policy.
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