About
Introduction
This is the most comprehensive course available for the field today. It should be required reading for every health care administrator, as it has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect changes in the health care industry and the renewed focus on health care information technology initiatives, this course is a valuable training for health administration and health informatics students and professionals.
Course Objectives
On completion of this course you should be able to:
- 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.
Course Outline
Health Care Information
Introduction to 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
- External Data and Information: Comparative
- External Data and Information: Expert or Knowledge Based
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
Health Care Information Systems
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
Federal Efforts to Enhance Quality of Patient Care through the Use of Health Information Technology
- HITECH Act
- Health Care Reform: New Modes of Care and Payment Reform
- Health Information Exchange
- Information Technology Ramifications of New Models of Care and Payment Reform
System Acquisition
- System Acquisition: A Definition
- Systems Development Life Cycle
- System Acquisition Process
- Project Management Tools
- Things That Can Go Wrong
System Implementation and Support
- System Implementation Process
- Managing the Organizational Aspects
- System Support and Evaluation
Information Technology
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
- Clinical and Managerial Decision Support
- Information Systems Architecture
Health Care Information System Standards
- Standards Development Process
- Classification Standards
- Vocabulary and Terminology Standards
- Health Record Content and Functional Standards
Security of Health Care Information Systems
- The Health Care Organization’s Security Program
- Threats to Health Care Information
- Overview of the HIPAA Security Rule
- Outline of the HIPAA Security Rule
- HITECH Expansion of the HIPAA Security Rule
- Administrative Safeguards
- Physical Safeguards
- Technical Safeguards
- Security in a Wireless Environment
- Remote Access Security
Senior Management IT Challenges
Organizing Information Technology Services
- Information Technology Functions
- Organizing IT Staff and Services
- In-House versus Outsourced IT
- Evaluating IT Effectiveness
IT Alignment and Strategic Planning
- IT Planning Objectives
- Overview of Strategy
- Vectors for Arriving at IT Strategy
- The IT Asset
- A Normative Approach to Developing Alignment and IT Strategy
- IT Strategy and Alignment Challenges
- Characteristics of Strategic Thinking
Strategy Considerations
- Complementary Strategies
- Strategy Evolution
- Governing Concepts
- The Competitive Value of IT
IT Governance and Management
- IT Governance
- IT Effectiveness
- IT Budget
Management’s Role in Major IT Initiatives
- Managing Change Due to IT
- Managing IT Projects
- Understanding IT Initiative Failures
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
