CAMEI aims to coordinate research activities and policies towards the development of renewed educational material and programs, to boost new trends for acquiring new knowledge in respect of the implementation of eHealth systems in practice, foster trans-national access to research infrastructures from both EU and USA partners and establish a network of best practices in Medical Education Informatics. The partners of CAMEI are experts in providing IT skills to healthcare workforce by means of different technologies and learning approaches.

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CAMEI
Coordination Actions in the
scientific era of Medical
Education Informatics for
fostering IT skills for healthcare
workforce in the EU and USA

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CAMEI
Coordination Actions in the scientific era of Medical
Education Informatics for fostering IT skills for
healthcare workforce in the EU and USA
Duration: 24 months
Start date: 1st Oct 2013
Four European Partners:
• Northern Research Institute (NO)
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (EL)
• Karolinska Institute (SE)
• Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (SP)
Aristotle
University of
Thessaloniki

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Fostering IT skills for healthcare workforce in
the EU and US
• The ground of acquiring IT skills
• Identify the needs
• Proposed Actions for fostering IT skills for healthcare workforce in
the EU and US
• Transatlantic eHealth / health IT Cooperation Roadmap
enhancements through contribution of needed actions

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Role of ICT
• Recent advances in ICT have acted as catalysts for significant
developments in the sector of health care.
– Digital medical/health education resources
– web 2.0 technologies for sharing and shaping high quality medical
education resources
– enrichment of medical educational resources with additional knowledge
and information through Semantic Web and Linked Open Data
The above give rise to and shape-up a niche new area for Medical
Education Informatics. This is certainly driven by developments of web
advancements like social media and the semantic web.

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Medical/Health Education
…a complex process
• Involves the development of a body of knowledge, skills (both procedural
and cognitive) attitudes, and ethical development
• Pedagogically training needs to mimic as closely as possible the role of the
practitioner and provide learners with self-directed personalised learning
opportunities
 Can new educational approaches build on concepts of adult education, rely
on situational and/or constructive learning and accommodate requirements
involved in active, self-directed, student-centred, and experiential
educational programs?
 How can information technology assist the learners in developing robust
conceptual models that will eventually facilitate the transition towards expert,
over-specialized knowledge, yet without losing sight of the "big picture"?
 Can information technology provide some added value for the development
of individual strategies to effectively deal with the complexity and amount of
medical knowledge?

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Medical/Health Education
…a complex process
• Need of modern didactic approaches and contemporary heath
education practice
– Paradigm: problem or scenario-based learning (PBL)
– Expose students to real-life situations and to examine, diagnose and
treat patients in a safe and risk-free environment
– Lack of studies to show which type of scenario tool is ideal in terms of
both pedagogy and economy, for each particular purpose.
No attempt to establish best practice tools for elements of competency. In
part this is because different tools are in the hands of different specialists,
and what is needed is a co-ordinated network approach which raises
awareness and engages disparate parties in accommodating all
categories of tools and training opportunities.

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e-learning and standardisation
• Medical Informatics (MI) community has been by virtue involved in
the scientific and technical developments of Standards, Medical
Terminologies & Classification Standards & Interoperability initiatives
• MI community has been largely inactive on standards for the process
of learning and education
• Medical Education communities, especially in the USA, have been
aware and more actively involved (ie. MedBiquitous,
(www.medbiq.org), IEEE LOM (http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/), etc.)
Need to elaborate and extend work on pedagogical, technical,
standardization, and the associated cultural, social and legal issues
towards a standard-based infrastructure that enables co-ordination of
actions and leads to the exchange of best practices and the sharing of
state-of-the-art digital medical educational content among medical
educators and students in European and USA higher academic
institutions.

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Tackling scientific silos
• Emphasis of MedicaI Informatics society is on technology
• Medical Education societies are deeped into clinical aspects and skills
• E-learning communities are also silo-ed into disparate thematic
domains of applications
 No clear scientific community dealing with the important aspects and
issues of Medical Education Informatics
 A chiasm in the use of medical education practices and technologies
between USA and Europe
Need to join research forces between Europe and the US while at the
same time breaking scientific silos in the areas of e-learning, Medical
Education, Medical Informatics and standardisation. Re-enforcing
research activities in the MEI domain will be expected to not only increase
research quality across the two sides of the Atlantic, but also produce
tangible education and technical outcomes as well.

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Actions needed
• Coordinate research activities and policies towards the development
of renewed educational material and programs
• Boost new trends for acquiring new knowledge by the healthcare
workforce in EU and USA
• Foster trans-national access to research infrastructures from both EU
and USA partners and establish a network of best practices in
Medical Education Informatics
• Provide the ground so the healthcare workforce could gain IT skills
and the trust on eHealth will be established
• Promote policy dialog and international cooperation on Medical
Education Informatics
• Empower the evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for
telemedicine services
• Covering digital gap of healthcare workforce in ehealth/health IT

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Work plan
WP1. Project Management and coordination
WP2. Assessing the cooperation potential on IT skills for healthcare
workforce in the EU and USA
WP3. Awareness Raising and Cooperation Events
WP4. Cooperation Action Plan and Policy Dialogue

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Expected Impact
• Recognize, reuse, share and expand already existing platforms and
sharing mechanisms of modernized educational material with
crowdsourcing content quality controls.
• Identified means and guidelines for sharing, re-using, and
repurposing technologies of new educational material and programs
for IT-skilled workforce in healthcare applied in the different context,
different languages and cultures in the EU and USA
• Develop networks to further exploit the development of renewed
educational material and programmes through the identified means
and guidelines

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Expected Impact
• Strengthen S&T cooperation between USA and EU.
• Identify a set of common prioritised IT skills and knowledge for health
care workers, developing a set of common formative itineraries,
recognised at EU-US level.
• Recognize and valorise existing research groups, in the USA and
EU, and interconnect them with other groups in the same field,
helping therefore researchers and research organisations to have
access IT knowledge and expertise existing elsewhere.
• Empower new ways of boosting knowledge and providing IT skills to
workforce in healthcare of USA and EU.

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Expected Impact
• Increase the awareness and dissemination on the results of the
projects and related benefits for USA and EU stakeholders
(researchers, policy makers, users associations and entrepreneurs).
• Contribute on improving the health service in a wide audience of
forthcoming health care professionals (undergraduate and
postgraduate medical students, nurse students, carers).
• Disseminate best practises, proposed techniques and polices to
healthcare workforce.

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Transatlantic eHealth / health IT Cooperation
Roadmap enhancement
• Enable collaboration between identified and interested stakeholders
• Propose infrastructures to foster access to professional development
services
• Analyse competencies required by the diverse healthcare and
eHealth/Health IT workforce
• Identify curricula that address the competencies in EU and US
• Identify best practices to share, reuse, repurpose and
create of educational material through open repositories of case
studies, scenarios and educational material
• New models of education/employer collaboration for CPD/CME
programs for EU and US
• Boost the Health/Medical Informatics as a distinct profession

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… need for Coordination Actions in the scientific era of
Medical Education Informatics for fostering IT skills for
healthcare workforce in the EU and USA…
… need for CAMEI …