Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information.
OBJECTIVE
This lecture discusses a philosophy of educating health information professionals in a rapidly changing health care and information environment.


CONCLUSIONS
Education for health information professionals must be based upon a solid foundation of the changing paradigms and trends in health care and health information, as well as technological advances, to produce a well-prepared information workforce to meet the demands of health-related environments. Educational programs should begin with the core principles of library and information sciences and expand in interdisciplinary collaborations. A model of the health care environment is presented to serve as a framework for developing educational programs for health information professionals.


CONCLUSIONS
Interdisciplinary and collaborative relationships-which merge health care, library and information sciences, and other information-related disciplines-should form the basis of education for health information professionals.
College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA. Ana.Cleveland@unt.edu
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