Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics in the Web 3.0 Era: Standards for data, curricula, and activities. Contribution of the IMIA Working Group on Health and Medical Informatics Education.

Unlabelled: Web 3.0 is transforming the World Wide Web by allowing knowledge and reasoning to be gleaned from its content.

Objective: Describe a new scenario in education and training known as "Education 3.

Mismatch between the prevalence of overweight and obese children and adolescents and recording in electronic health records: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The prevalence of obesity has increased dramatically in recent years. An electronic health record (EHR) can be used to identify and manage overweight and obesity by providing timely information.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity using anthropometric data from an EHR and to compare it with the frequency of diagnoses of 'overweight' and 'obesity' registered by pediatricians.

A medical informatics distance-learning course for Latin America. Translation, implementation and evaluation.

Background: There is a growing need and interest worldwide for healthcare and information technology professionals trained in medical informatics. Distance learning technologies are increasingly used to deliver such education, but have mainly been limited to the English language.

Objective: Describe the implementation and student satisfaction of a medical informatics course delivered in Spanish for a Latin American audience.

Medication errors in pediatric inpatients: prevalence and results of a prevention program.

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and characteristics of medication errors in pediatric and neonatal inpatients and to measure the impact of interventions to reduce medication errors.

Methods: A preintervention and postintervention cross-sectional study was conducted of a sample of prescriptions that were ordered by physicians and medications that were administered by nurses to patients at the NICU, PICU, and general pediatric settings at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires Department of Pediatrics in 2002 and 2004. Number and type of errors, time shift on which they occurred, and whether they had any kind of adverse event on the patient were recorded.

Evolution of medical informatics in bibliographic databases.

Medical informatics became a medical specialty during the last years and this is evidenced by a great amount of journal articles regarding the subject published worldwide. We compared the presentation of Medical Informatics in two different bibliographic databases: MEDLINE and LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Literature on the Health Sciences). Previous studies described how Medical Informatics was represented in MEDLINE, but we wanted to compare it to a regional database as LILACS.