Sample EHR Syllabus

Overview of Medical Informatics

• Introduction, history and background
• Key players in health information technology
• Academic, Private and Governmental Influences
• Barriers to Health Information Technology adoption
• Medical Informatics programs, careers and resources

Electronic Health Records

• Why do we need an electronic health record?
• Computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
• Clinical decision support systems
• Electronic health record examples, successes and failures
• Barriers to EHR adoption
• Selecting an electronic health record: practical tips

Interoperability

• The need for interoperability
• Health Information Organizations (HIOs) and the NHIN
• Web Services
• Health Information Organizations Today
• Examples of Health Information Organizations
• Data standards
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Patient Informatics

• The Internet for patient medical information
• Patient web portals
• Personal health records
• Secure patient-physician e-mail and e-visits

Online Medical Resources

• Sponsored medical web sites
• Resources, sponsored and non-commercial
• Government medical web sites
• Free medical web sites
• Subscription resources 126

Search Engines

• Google
• Other search engines
• PubMed

Mobile technology

• Basic PDA functions
• Medical PDA programs
• Textbooks for Mobile Technology
• Drug programs
• Infectious disease programs
• Database programs
• Document readers
• Hardware recommendations
• Smartphones
• Limitations of Mobile Technology
• The Future of Mobile Technology
• Medical software resources

Evidence Based Medicine

• Why is EBM important?
• The evidence pyramid
• The number needed to treat
• Limitations of the medical literature and EBM
• EBM resources

Clinical Practice Guidelines

• Examples of Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Clinical practice guidelines in electronic formats
• CPG resources

Disease Management and Disease Registries

• Disease registries
• Disease registry examples

Pay for Performance

• Pay for performance projects
• Pay for performance concerns and limitations

Patient Safety and Technology

• United States report card
• Barriers to improving patient safety through technology
• Information technology and patient safety
• Technologies that have the potential to reduce medication errors

Electronic Prescribing

• E-prescribing studies and projects
• E-prescribing obstacles and issues

Electronic Prescribing

• E-prescribing studies and projects
• E-prescribing obstacles and issues

Telehealth/Telemedicine

• Traditional Telemedicine
• Telerounding
• Telehomecare and Telemanagement
• Telemedicine projects
• Telemedicine organizations
• Barriers to Telemedicine

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems

• PACS basics
• PACS Examples
• PACS advantages and disadvantages

Bioinformatics

• Bioinformatics programs

Public Health Informatics

• The Public Health Information Network
• Bio-surveillance

E-Research

• E-Collaboration
• E-Forms

Emerging Trends

• What do the experts predict?
• Emerging trends