• List and illustrate the various types of healthcare information
• Gain an excellent overview of foundational principles and practical strategies
• Apply the tools necessary to facilitate movement from a paper-based to an electronic health record environment while championing the importance of managing in such an environment.
• Deploy health care information technology and leverage investments while introducing significant change.
• Develop the skills required to enhance quality of patient care through the use of health care information technology and strategy considerations.
• Stimulate discussions on how to apply concepts included in the course to real-life scenarios through case studies of organizations experiencing management-related information system challenges.

CONTENT

Health Care Information 

• Types of Health Care Information
• Internal Data and Information: Patient Specific-Clinical
• Internal Data and Information: Patient Specific-Administrative
• Internal Data and Information: Patient Specific-Combining Clinical and Administrative
• Internal Data and Information: Aggregate-Clinical
• Internal Data and Information: Aggregate-Administrative
• Internal Data and Information: Aggregate-Combining Clinical and Administrative

Health Care Data Quality 

• Data versus Information
• Problems with Poor-Quality Data
• Ensuring Data and Information Quality

Health Care Information Regulations, Laws, and Standards 

• Licensure, Certification, and Accreditation
• Patient Safety Organizations
• Legal Aspects of Managing Health Information

History and Evolution of Health Care Information Systems 

• Definition of Terms
• History and Evolution

Clinical Information Systems 

• The Electronic Health Record
• Other Major HCIS Types
• Fitting Applications Together
• Overcoming Barriers to Adoption

System Acquisition 

• System Acquisition: A Definition
• Systems Development Life Cycle
• System Acquisition Process
• Project Management Tools
• Things That Can Go Wrong

Technologies That Support Health Care Information Systems 

• Information Technology Adoption Challenges
• Data Management and Access
• Networks and Data Communications
• Information Distribution Schemes
• Remote Access Technologies
• Internet and Web Concepts and Applications
• E-Commerce in Health Care

FOR WHOM:

Relevant Healthcare Practitioners

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

This course is available in the following locations:
Ghana- $6000
Rwanda - $7000
UK - $8000
USA - $8000