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Insight
Matters
Winter, 2002
Committee
Seeks Your Input
Since
the last OPA Council meeting, the committee has solidified its
membership, OPA has sent appointment letters to members, welcome
and information has been shared with members, and a first draft
made of potential aspects of committee focus. In the upcoming
months, members will provide input for their conceptual addition/deletion/change
to draft initial goals and objectives.
The
members will consider the following potential aspects of committee
focus:
Internal
OPA Electronic goals include:
- Provide
information and assistance to OPA members
- Computer
literacy assistance for OPA members
- All
OPA members be encouraged to obtain email addresses
- Inservices
re electronics
- Survey
members electronic needs
- Collaborate
with OPA program chair regarding inservice on electronics
- Demo
computers for email and web use at conference meetings
- Budget
issues: contract listserv for committee members?
- Web
issues: home page, OPA mission/vision/values, OPA contact
info, Public info, FAQ re OPA/psychiatry, resources re MI,
referral direction, Links
- Web
management
- Determine
web site needs of OPA members; define goals and parameters
of web site, preserve web site simplicity, ease of management,
ease of access; determine maintenance logistics/timeframe;
determine confidentiality/release of information issues of
web resource member information; email addresses; determine
maintenance procedures to keep current, given high turnover
of addresses
- Address
confidentiality issues (i.e., email addresses for members,
etc)
External
OPA collaboration for linkage goals:
- APA,
other psychiatry, OSMA, AMA, Media, Public general assistance
and information
- Collaborate
with medical training/psychiatry training to promote electronics
in curriculum
As
we continue to pioneer in the arena of electronics in psychiatry,
the committee welcomes input from any of the membership regarding
the above.
Marion
Sherman, M.D., Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Electronic Communications
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