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Who is Using Us Academic Program Sample Syllabus

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
 

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