HIT 315 - Electronic App for Health Dat

1. Evaluate various types of clinical and administrative health software off-campus and/or through in-class demonstration.
   1. Evaluate types of electronic applications in the health care setting such as electronic health records, billing system, e-prescribing, computerized physician order entry, etc.
   2. Review databases/patient registries, clinical decision support systems, population health management, health information exchange and other administrative and/or clinical reporting systems.
2. Examine a variety health IT data resources.
   1. Examine government resources and websites such as: the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics, CMS quality Payment Program etc.
   2. Compare resources and websites of associations such as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, e-Health Initiative, American Medical Informatics Association, American Nurses Association and Nursing Informatics, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, etc.
3. Create different presentations of various types of data.
   1. Design charts/graphs using software: bar/column, line, comparison and stack, histogram; frequency polygon, etc.
   2. Discuss the presentation methods of data based on visualization best practices.
4. Generate the retrieval, summation and presentation of health information utilizing data analytic tools.
   1. Explain data analytic tools utilized in the healthcare industry to present health information.
   2. Create spreadsheet applications such as pivot tables and vlookup to perform analysis between data sets and format health data for presentations and decision-making.
   3. Create database applications to analyze and format health data for presentations and decision-making.
5. Outline how the field of health information technology can benefit from the integration of human factors in the systems design process.
   1. Explain usability and its relationship to HIT systems and how it pertains to EHRs, and describe common challenges.
   2. Examine the impact of HIT usability on user satisfaction, adoption, and workarounds, including error rates and unintended consequences and identify strategies to prevent/address HIT usability obstacles.
   3. Discuss how cognitive, physical, and organizational ergonomics can be applied to human factors engineering.
   4. Correlate the systems-centered approach to error and patient safety and the different dimensions of the concept of human error and the methods used for measuring mental workload and information overload.
   5. Summarize how human factors analysis can be applied to the study of medical devices.
6. Examine process analysis and workflow redesign and how it can greatly facilitate the implementation of health IT.
   1. Summarize the purpose of process analysis and redesign in clinical settings.
   2. Explain how healthcare process analysis and redesign and meaningful use are related.
   3. List the components of clinical workflow and the value of process mapping.
   4. Examine standard process mapping symbols, conventions and the information that can be generated.
   5. Explain process notation methods and the process aspects and map notations.
   6. Identify potential impacts of HIT implementation on workflow and of workflow analysis on HIT implementation.
   7. Review the importance of continual customer interviews to ensure processes meet their needs.