Training Health Professionals in Bioinformatics

López–Campos, Guillermo; López-Alonso, Victoria; Martín-Sánchez, Fernando

doi:10.3414/me09-02-0008

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“…3 The awareness and early recognition of sepsis sources in all clinical practice subsets is the foundation of successful management of sepsis also by bioinformatics and precision medicine. [29][30][31][32][33][34] Increasing bioinformatics literacy by e-learning is a well established strategy. 35 A key point is that the low cost of UltraSound machines makes such investments affordable even in limited-resources settings.…”

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“…35 A key point is that the low cost of UltraSound machines makes such investments affordable even in limited-resources settings. 11,[34][35][36][37][38][39] The rationale behind this last suggestion may not be obvious, and a few lines of explanation are needed. Spontaneous or iatrogenic abscess or fluid cavities are frequently the sources of bacteria in sepsis, which infect the endocardium and cause vegetation on cardiac valves.…”

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confidence: 99%

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<p>SEPSIS. Educational and Best Practice Frontiers. Beyond the Boundaries of Fatality, Enhancing Clinical Skills and Precision Medicine</p>

Trovato¹

2020

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Dissemination and exploitation of knowledge regarding affordable clinical skills and innovative precision medicine, two current topics in active development in medicine, may contribute to improve also sepsis management. Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection. Sepsis is strongly related to all body organs or to systemic diseases and to the quality of the best-practice in use, which is particularly critical in surgical or intervention techniques. Trauma, surgical and mini-invasive procedures, vascular or endoscopic interventions, otolaryngology, obstetrics-gynecological and urological procedures, malnutrition, dental, skin, chronic liver, kidney and respiratory disease are frequently involved. Accordingly, apart from the clinical risk analysis and management of the process of care, the actual factors that may be easily neglected are the techniques used, the personal skills of the health professionals and the quality of the equipment. The quest for biomarkers consistent with the unmet needs of medical doctors and of their patient and the efforts for overcoming bacterial antibiotic resistances are currently the main foci of medical research. In addition, in this regard, research and innovation would benefit from greater knowledge, skills and use of bioinformatics and omics. The caveats related to in-silico approaches must be flagged: algorithms may equally warrant scientific innovations or hide the lack of them; a patient is more than a set of covariates. Epidemiology and prevention includes all the actions suitable for achieving an adequate hygiene and immunization of populations and for safer hospital policies and procedures during Patients' stays. In any subset, the most unresolved critical point in sepsis is a timely diagnosis. This is impaired by low degrees of suspicion for the possibility of emerging sepsis, by the shortage of use of the simplest microbiological testing but, equally or more, by the insufficient diffusion of non-invasive imaging skills suitable to detect and monitor the emerging sites and sources of infection. In primary care, in emergency facilities, in hospital wards and in intensive care units, inclusion of appropriate knowledge, skills, expertise and imaging equipment must be extended as much as possible. The low cost of UltraSound machines and of increasing bioinformatics literacy by e-learning, makes such investments affordable even in limited-resources contexts. Frontier educational and best practice intervention enhancing affordable clinical skills and innovative precision medicine may lead beyond the boundaries of fatal outcomes in sepsis.

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Section: Advice and Sustainable Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Advice and Sustainable Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

<p>SEPSIS. Educational and Best Practice Frontiers. Beyond the Boundaries of Fatality, Enhancing Clinical Skills and Precision Medicine</p>

Trovato¹

2020

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“…Also we should pay special attention to innovative teaching methods that are being applied successfully in this field such as workshops, summer schools, online resources, Web 2.0, multidisciplinary working groups, problem-solving oriented training [29,30,31].…”

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Education, Research and Professionalism in Health and Biomedical Informatics: Myths, Realities and Proposals for the Future

Martín-Sánchez¹,

Gray²

2011

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This article proposes a definition of the field of Health and Biomedical Informatics, in line with recent international developments. According to the authors, there are several myths or misconception concerning the future development of this scientific and professional discipline. We describe the current situation of Health and Biomedical Informatics at an international level, include specific analysis for the two countries where the authors have worked (Spain and Australia) and finally propose a series of recommendations to improve it.All this analysis is carried out in three areas: education, research, and professionalism (characterisation and development of the profession). Defining the body of knowledge of the discipline itself is an initial step that must be made and taken as soon as possible.

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“…The paper by López-Campos et al describes the experience throughout 10 years of training in bioinformatics for healthcare professionals by the Department of Medical Bioinformatics of the Institute of Health "Carlos III". The authors described the different approaches needed to educate professionals in this recent discipline so as to integrate it with the healthcare environment, since bioinformatics was initially oriented to basic biological research [6].…”

Section: Biomedical and Health Informatics (Bmhi)mentioning

confidence: 99%