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Unit 1: Overview, History, and Milestones in Medical and Nursing Informatics

1.1  Evolution of the field
1.2  Major historical applications in the field
1.3  Perennial challenges
1.4  Professional organizations & certification
1.5  Current topics

Connors, Warren

8/29-9/4, 2011

Unit 2:  Public Health Informatics and Consumer Health Informatics

2.1  Evolution of the field
2.2  Major historical applications in the field
2.3  Perennial challenges
2.4  Professional organizations & certification
2.5  Current topics

Wangia

9/5-9-11, 2011

Unit 3: Translational Bioinformatics

3.1  Evolution of the field
3.2  Major historical applications in the field
3.3  Perennial challenges
3.4  Professional organizations & certification
3.5  Current topics

Connors

9/12-9/18, 2011

25 question quiz at end of Module I

Test will be available
9/15-9/20, 2011

Module Two: Impact of HIT

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Unit 4: Overview of Federal and state initiatives for Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange

4.1 Purpose and definition of HIT/HIE
4.2 Examples-EHR's, PHR's, Biosurveillance Systems and Registries
4.3 Benefits and Return on Investment
4.4 Federal Initiatives: HISPC, NHIN, CCHIT, HIPAA, MMA, ARRA
4.5 Private initiatives: IHE, AMIA/AHIMA, IOM
4.6 Health Information Standards: ISO, ANSI-HITSP, HL7, etc.
4.7 Terminologies: SNOMED CT, LOINC, IDC-10 CM, etc.

Connors, Warren

9/19-10/2, 2011

Unit 5:  Privacy and Security

5.1 Security and Privacy definitions
5.2 Impact of HIPAA
5.3 Categories of protective safeguards
5.4 Information security policy development
5.5 IT security services lifecycle
5.6 Security considerations for developing software
5.7 Roles of information security professionals

Wangia

10/3-10/9, 2011

Unit 6: Using Health Data

6.1 Data and database management
6.2 Searching health data
6.3 Health data analytics
6.4 Secondary uses of health data
6.5 Tools to collect and manage health data

Wangia

10/10-10/16, 2011

25 question quiz at end of Module II

Test will be available
10/14-10/18, 2011

Module Three:  Applications of Health Informatics

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Unit 7:  Guideline Development, Assessment and Deployment

7.1 Creating an answerable question
7.2 Finding current evidence
7.3 Grading evidence
7.4 Assessing the "implementability" of evidence and guidelines in electronic systems
7.5 Cultural issues in guideline development and deployment
7.6 The guideline life-cycle

Manos

10/17-10/23, 2011

AMIA Annual Meeting
(Washington DC)

Face to Face Meeting

October 22-26, 2011

Unit 8: Clinical Rules and Decision Support

8.1 Alerts and reminders
8.2  Diagnostic assistance
8.3  Therapeutic planning
8.4  Critique pharmaco-therapeutic decision support rule-based systems
8.5  Methods of inference
8.6  Decision support

Manos

10/31-11/6, 2011

Unit 9: Medical Devices

9.1  Overview of medical devices
9.2  Medical device design and medical errors
9.3  Human factors and medical device design 
9.4  Patient safety and purchasing medical device

Manos

11/7-11/13, 2011

Module Four: Implementation of Informatics Projects and Programs

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Unit 10: Human Factors

10.1  Provide an overview of human factors
10.2  Discuss the use of human factors principles to understand medical errors and improve patient safety
10.3  Provide an overview of  medical error/patient safety taxonomies
10.4  Discuss reporting of medical errors and the identification of  implicit and explicit human factors described in a medical error reports
10.5  Demonstrate how the use of medical error taxonomy

Wangia

11/14-11/20, 2011

Unit 11: Training, Implementation, Organizational Change, and Unintended Consequences            

11.1  System development lifecycle
11.2  Information system implementation strategies
11.3  Complexity and organizational change
11.4  Unintended consequences of health information technology

Wangia

11/21-11/27, 2011

25 question quiz at end of Module IV
(includes modules 3 & 4)

Test will be available
11/25-11/30, 2011