title: Health and nursing informatics education.
abstract: In Europe, coordinated activities in healthcare informatics education started in the late 1980's with the establishment of European Courses in Health Telematics. At the same time the European Commission foresaw the need for spreading the knowledge of IT in the Healthcare Sector. Therefore the EC, since then, have supported the initiatives that aim to create awareness, stimulate diffusion, educate and train the users (healthcare professionals) in the application of Information Technology to the Healthcare Sector. Such initiatives are the NIGHTINGALE project, which is an essential project in the planning and implementation of strategy in training the Nursing profession in using and applying healthcare information systems, the IT EDUCTRA project, which is a very practical project in the field of the education and training of the Healthcare Professionals in Information Technologies, and the ERASMUS Master's Course, which is aiming at giving those working, or intending to work in the health service and related activities a broad, advanced postgraduate education in Health Informatics.
authors.affiliation: Lab. of Health Informatics, University of Athens, Greece. jmantas@dn.uoa.gr
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mantas
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005060:Europe; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D020380:Needs Assessment