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Gateway to Health Informatics (G2HI)

COURSE SYLLABUS

The G2HI course program will comprise the following:

• 11 weeks of course work, delivered online from OHSU.  Each unit is offered and completed weekly.
  

• 2 class-room based, face-to-face tutorials conducted in Singapore
  

• Course breaks to allow participants to work on course assignments. 
  

Unit 1.      Overview of Field and Problems Motivating It

1.1    What is Biomedical and Health Informatics?

1.2    A discipline whose time has come

1.3    Problems in healthcare motivating biomedical and health informatics

1.4    Who does biomedical and health informatics?

1.5    Seminal documents and reports

1.6    Resources for field - organizations, information, education

Unit 2.      Biomedical Computing

2.1    Types of Computers

2.2    Data Storage in Computers

2.3    Computer Hardware and Software

2.4    Computer Networks

2.5    Software Engineering

2.6    Social aspects of Computing

Unit 3.      Electronic and Personal Health Records (EHR and PHR)

3.1    Clinical Data

3.2    History and Perspective of the Health (Medical) Record

3.3    Definitions and Key Attributes of the Electronic Health Record (EHR)

3.4    EHR Examples

3.5    Benefits and Challenges of the EHR

3.6    The Personal Health Record (PHR)

3.7    Nursing Informatics

Unit 4.      Standards and Interoperability; Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security

4.1    Standards: Basic Concepts

4.2    Identifier and Transaction Standards

4.3    Message Exchange Standards

4.4    Terminology Standards

4.5    Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security: Basic Concepts

4.6    HIPAA and Other Countries’ Privacy and Security Regulations

Unit 5.      Meaningful Use of the EHR

5.1    Patient Safety and Medical Errors

5.2    Healthcare Quality

5.3    Clinical Decision Support:  Approaches and Historical Perspectives

5.4    Reminders and Alerts

5.5    Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)

5.6    Health Information Exchange

5.7    HITECH, ARRA and Achieving Meaningful Use

Unit 6.     EHR Implementation and Evaluation

6.1    Clinical Workflow Analysis and Redesign

6.2    Certification of the EHR

6.3    System Selection and Implementation

6.4    Use and Outcomes of the EHR

6.5    Cost-Benefit of the EHR

6.6    Natural Language Processing (NLP) of Clinical Narratives

6.7    Clinical Research Informatics

6.8    Public Health Informatics

Unit 7.      Evidence-Based Medicine and Medical Decision Making

7.1    Definitions and Application of EBM

7.2    Interventions

7.3    Diagnosis

7.4    Harm and Prognosis

7.5    Summarizing Evidence

7.6    Putting Evidence into Practice

7.7    Limitations of EBM

Unit 8.      Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries

8.1    Information Retrieval

8.2    Knowledge-based Information

8.3    Content

8.4    Indexing

8.5    Retrieval

8.6    Evaluation

8.7    Digital Libraries

Unit 9.      Imaging Informatics and Telemedicine

9.1    Imaging in Health Care

9.2    Modalities of Imaging

9.3    Digital Imaging

9.4    Telemedicine: Definitions, Uses and Barriers

9.5    Efficacy of Telemedicine

9.6    Patient-Clinician Communications

Unit 10.    Translational Bioinformatics and Personalized Medicine (Optional)

10.1 Bioinformatics - The Big Picture

10.2 Overview of Basic Molecular Biology

10.3  Important Biotechnologies Driving Bioinformatics

10.4  From Clinical Genetics and Genomics to Personalized Medicine

10.5 Bioinformatics Information Resources

10.6  Translational Bioinformatics Challenges and Opportunities

Unit 11.    Organizational and Management Issues in Informatics
11.1 Organizational Behavior
11.2 Organizational Issues in Failure and Success of Informatics Projects
11.3 Change Management