From information technology to informatics: the information revolution in dental education.
From information technology to informatics: the information revolution in dental education.
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DOI：
10.1002/j.0022-0337.2012.76.1.tb05241.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
T. Schleyer;T. Thyvalikakath;H. Spallek;Michael P. Dziabiak;L. Johnson
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作者：
T. Schleyer;T. Thyvalikakath;H. Spallek;Michael P. Dziabiak;L. Johnson
在过去的五十年里，信息技术(IT)的能力突飞猛进。许多这些进步使信息技术在牙科教育中的新的和有益的应用成为可能。然而，从概念上讲，信息技术在牙科学校的应用还处于初级阶段。在改善我们如何利用IT支持临床护理、教育和研究方面，挑战和机遇比比皆是。在临床护理中，我们需要将电子牙科记录转移到复制纸张之外，将口腔健康信息与系统健康信息联系起来，通过远程识别促进协作护理，并帮助临床医生应用循证牙科和预防管理策略。在教育方面，我们应该采取循证的方式将信息技术用于教学，分享有效的教育内容和方法，利用技术中介的改变师生之间的力量平衡，改善对临床教学的技术支持，建设以学习者和组织为中心的信息基础设施。在研究方面，机会包括重复使用临床护理数据进行研究，帮助改进研究的计算方法，在牙科应用可推广的研究工具，以及重复使用研究数据和科学工作流程。在这个过程中，我们从关注IT-应用计算机技术的单纯技术方面-过渡到信息学：管理信息的内容、方式和原因。
The capabilities of information technology (IT) have advanced precipitously in the last fifty years. Many of these advances have enabled new and beneficial applications of IT in dental education. However, conceptually, IT use in dental schools is only in its infancy. Challenges and opportunities abound for improving how we support clinical care, education, and research with IT. In clinical care, we need to move electronic dental records beyond replicating paper, connect information on oral health to that on systemic health, facilitate collaborative care through teledentistry, and help clinicians apply evidence-based dentistry and preventive management strategies. With respect to education, we should adopt an evidence-based approach to IT use for teaching and learning, share effective educational content and methods, leverage technology-mediated changes in the balance of power between faculty and students, improve technology support for clinical teaching, and build an information infrastructure centered on learners and organizations. In research, opportunities include reusing clinical care data for research studies, helping advance computational methods for research, applying generalizable research tools in dentistry, and reusing research data and scientific workflows. In the process, we transition from a focus on IT-the mere technical aspects of applying computer technology-to one on informatics: the what, how, and why of managing information.