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HIT 120
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Title: | Working with Health IT Systems |
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Course Description: | Provides hands-on experience with a computerized HIT system/electronic health record, utilizing contemporary on-line systems with simulated data. The course will include additional lecture, project work, and practice in the use of HIT systems. Students will play the role of practitioners using these systems and experience threats to security and gain an appreciation of the need for standards and high levels of usability. Students will also learn how errors can occur and ways to minimize them. |
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Min Credit: | 4 |
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Course Notes: | Entered new course 9/20/10 s@ |
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General Notes: | revised-crdts,dscrptn,cmptncs 1/5/13 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Identify common components of an HIT system and types of HIT applications (E-Mar, POE, PACS, ADT, Lab, DSS, Registries, Billing/Coding, etc, and acute care, community health, public health, small provider practices, etc.)
2. Describe data flows across HIT systems and the implications of standards.
3. Identify root causes of HIT-induced error (i.e. usability, workflow interference, system error, etc.) and suggest solutions.
4. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of identified solutions to identified HIT problems emphasizes the reality of “solutions” and illustrates the frequent domino effect/unintended consequences of change of an HIT system).
5. Define usability, describe general usability principles, and relate usability to adoption in relation to EHRs.
6. Define and differentiate security, confidentiality, and privacy in an HIT System and identify common threats.
7. Demonstrate beginning level competency in general HIT system use.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Introduction & Overview: Components of HIT Systems
II. Under the Hood: Functions of HIT Systems
III. Understanding Information Exchange in HIT Systems
IV. The Effective HIT System
V. Fundamentals of Usability in HIT Systems – What Does It Matter?
VI. HIT Facilitated Error – Cause and Effect
VII. Protecting Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality in HIT Systems
VIII. HIT system planning, acquisition, installation, and training: Practices to Support & Pitfalls to Avoid.
IX. Potential Issues with Adoption and Installation of an HIT system.
X. HIT and Aspects of Patient-Centered Care
XI. Health IT in the Future
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