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De La Salle University Manila , in partnership with E-Health Records International-Philippines

Online Health Informatics Course | Course Description

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Table of Contents

!OVERVIEW 1

ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATICS COURSE OBJECTIVES 2

OUR STUDENTS 3

MERITS, CERTIFICATIONS & IMPACTS OF THE COURSE 4

COURSE OUTLINE 5

for the health professional track (HI 101) 5

for the it professionals track (HI 102) 8

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Course Overview

!The Health Informatics Course is designed in a cloud-based learning and collaboration platform that aims to increase competency and knowledge in Health Informatics, particularly within the hospital environment. This course is built through the Canvas Learning Management System to provide students scheduling flexibility; all that is needed is an Internet connection. The course can be accessed through most web browsers or through the Canvas App available for free in any App store.

The course also provides beginners in the Health Information Technology (IT) industry a strong foundation in the principles of health informatics and data collection. Students spend about 6 hours per week for 13 weeks coving 10 online modules embedded with engaging activities, 1 midterm exam and a final exam.

The Online Health Informatics Course is a continued education program of E-Health Records International – Philippines, Inc. (EHRI-Ph) in partnership with De La Salle University – Manila through the Consulting and Education Center. The course has two tracks: (1) the HI Course for Health Professionals (HI 101) and (2) the HI Course for IT Professionals (HI 102).

De La Salle University & E-Health Records International-Philippines, Inc. - Online Health Informatics Course Description


Online Health Informatics Course Objectives

1. Demonstrate basic literacy in computers, software, and network infrastructure through an understanding of technical specifications found in Electronic Health Records (EHR).

!2. Analyze performance and/or operational dashboards of hospitals.

!3. Integrate different health informatics principles to understand the value and impact of hos-

pital information systems to clinical and administrative environments.

!4. Integrate change management best practices for training and implementation.

!5. For health professionals, to effectively use EHRs in support of evidence-based clinical deci-

sion-making approach in the management of patients

!6. For health professionals, to maintain patient-provider relationships while using an EHR dur-

ing information entry and retrieval.

!7. For IT professionals, to operate a cloud-based EHR software through secure health infor-

mation exchange protocols.

!8. Strategize methods of decreasing data entry failure.

!9. Perform basic training and support for hospital/clinic employees to ensure a sustained

use of the hospital information system.

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Our Students

Healthcare Professionals

• Physicians, nurses, technicians, pharmacists and administrative personnel with an inter-est in Health IT, encompassing organizational hierarchy—from hospital/facility/organiza-tion executives, to managers, staff and even private care providers or volunteers.

Healthcare Professionals benefit from the course as they learn innovative opportunities to use information technology in the healthcare industry and learn about the latest technology relevant to their work. This course helps Healthcare Professionals build capacity for pro-fessional development and organizational advancement.

!IT Professionals

• Software developers, mobile app developers, computer programmers, computer engi-neers and other related professionals with an interest in hospital operations.

• Technical Support or IT Staff currently working, or looking for work, in the healthcare in-dustry.

IT Professionals benefit from the course as they tailor their technical expertise to the healthcare industry. IT Professionals are provided hands-on experience with software de-sign and development of health and hospital information systems.



Merits, Certifications and Impacts of the Course

A Certificate of Completion is provided by DLSU-Manila and E-Health Records International-Philippines Inc. (EHRI-Ph), and awarded to students who demonstrate proficiency in the areas covered by the course. This certificate assists students in obtaining and retaining employment in healthcare institutions that are adopting EHR platforms.

A Certificate of Distinction is awarded to students who demonstrate knowledge, skills and competence in completing health informatics capstone projects in actual hospital information systems and implementation sites. The capstone projects are intensive, active learning projects, which will allow students to learn from actual HIS and/or EHR design, deployment and/or implementation. The areas of focus may differ depending on the students’ abilities and opportunities which range from user requirements analysis, user experience design, project management, cloud-technologies, mobile health, training and education. Only qualified students will be invited to participate in a capstone project based on performance in the online course, participation in activities, and attitude towards the field of health informatics.

!Organizational Impact

1. Learn concepts and theories for practical application in your workplace.

2. Explore ideas for innovation for your institutions strategic business development.

3. Gain understanding of how to best promote and change the culture of health information.

4. Develop skills to train and hospital information systems.

5. Ensure patient and hospital privacy are safe and secure in the digital age.

!Personal Impact

1. Opens up advanced career opportunities.

2. Enables continued education despite time and location constraints.

3. Improves your ability to leverage and contribute innovations in health IT.

4. Strengthens your capacity to manage a health IT initiative or project.

5. Increases your capacity to make technical and business management decisions.



Course Outline

For the Health Professionals Track (HI 101) !MODULE 1 - OVERVIEW OF HEALTH INFORMATICS

I. Define health informatics and its sub-specialties.

II. Visualize the global health informatics ecosystem.

III. Explain the Philippine health information system.

IV. Provide a high level understanding of health information technology concepts that will be encountered in health informatics.

V. Highlight practical information technology concepts that will provide value to health infor-matics implementations and research.

VI. Describe current trends in health information technology.

VII. Active group discussion on Health IT products observed in your line of work.

!MODULE 2 - STANDARDS AND INTEROPERABILITY

I. Explain standards for health information exchange (HIE) recognized around the globe (eg. ICD, SNOMED, RxNorm, LOINC, HL7, to name a few).

II. Cite other existing and actively used HIE standards across countries.

III. Integrate the standards for HIE and Hospital Information Systems Interoperability

IV. Analyze concepts learned and identify discrepancies in the current healthcare system when it comes to standards and interoperability

!MODULE 3 - HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AND ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

I. Increase foundational knowledge in hospital information systems and resource planning.

II. Attain hands-on experience on Enterprise Resource Planning software

III. Compare proprietary HIS software vs. open source HIS software.

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MODULE 4 - HEALTH INFORMATICS IN THE CLOUD

I. Demonstrate functionality of a cloud-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.

II. Identify stakeholders of an EHR, and explain the value an EHR for each stakeholder.

III. Highlight components of comprehensive EHRs and the importance to improving care.

IV. Operate an EHR with test patients using a cloud-based EHR.

!MODULE 5 – ETHICS, PRIVACY, AND SECURITY CONCEPTS IN HEALTH INFORMATICS

I. Define protected health information and discuss processes that comprises secure, pro-tected health information.

II. Examine e-Health code of ethics and illustrate applicability in real-life settings.

III. Explain the Health Information Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA), its guidelines and implication to implementing hospital information systems.

IV. Identify legislative policies and administrative orders that protect health information and identify legal gaps in the existing health information technology.

V. Discuss concepts and ethical guidelines as covered in cloud-based EHRs and telemedicine.

!MODULE 6 - TELEMEDICINE

I. Explain telemedicine and its role in creating a more efficient HIE and improved care.

II. Demonstrate available technology for delivery of health care services using telemedicine.

III. Discover existing telemedicine efforts by various organizations.

IV. Provide a forum to discuss the legal and ethical implications of telemedicine in the delivery of health care services.

!MODULE 7 - DATA MINING, ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATION

I. Explain telemedicine and its role in creating a more efficient HIE and improved patient care.

II. Demonstrate available technology for delivery of health care services using telemedicine.

III. Discover existing telemedicine efforts by various organizations.

IV. Provide a forum to discuss the legal and ethical implications of telemedicine in the delivery of health care services.

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MODULE 8 - CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH INFORMATICS IMPLEMENTATIONS

I. Describe the diffusion of innovation theory, and illustrate methods of successful implemen-tations of HIS.

II. Identify and explain training and change theories used when implementing an HIS.

III. Provide understanding of HIS evaluation and its applicability to real-life situations.

IV. Formulate a basic evaluation framework for HIS.

!MODULE 9 - OWNERSHIP OF HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS

I. Develop a strategic planning framework.

II. Create an efficient project management charter, defining the roles of stakeholders.

III. Provide comprehension of the strategy plan and its applicability to real-life situations.

IV. Craft a basic evaluation framework for health information systems.

!MODULE 10 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN HEALTH INFORMATICS

I. Explain telemedicine and its role in a more efficient health information exchange

II. Discuss the trends of using mobile devices for health care services delivery and efficient information exchange

III. Define consumer health informatics, and examples of consumer health applications that contribute to the overall realization of the community on health informatics.

IV. Describe practical concepts in Open Source technology, and its contributions to HIS.

V. Appraise open source software applications which can be of help in the roles that the stu-dents have in their respective health institutions

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For the IT Professionals Track (HI 102) !MODULE 1 - BASIC NETWORK CONCEPTS

Description: Teaches students the basic of network concepts used in health informatics.

• Required modules: None

• Number of hours: 4 hours

I. Open systems interconnect model

II. Network requirements

a) Physical network requirements

III. Network topologies

IV. Which network setup befits a hospital?

V. Network management

VI. Communication technologies

a) Internet telephony

!MODULE 2 - AMAZON WEB SERVICES PART I – INTRODUCTION

Description: Teaches students the basics of Amazon Web Services and common services used in health care applications.



I. A. Introduction to Amazon web services

a) EC2

b) Elastic beanstalk

c) S3

d) Cloudfront

e) IAM

f) Redshift

II. Configuring the AWS account

a) Free tier package

b) Pricing

III. C. Configuring the EC2 environment



a) What servers are available

b) Amazon marketplace

c) Amazon EC2

IV. D. Configuring the S3 environment

a) Using S3 with cloudfront

!MODULE 3 - MONITORING THE LINUX ENVIRONMENT

Description: Teaches monitoring of the Amazon EC2 instance using either the AWS dashboard or SSH.

• Required modules: Module 2


I. Monitoring server activity

II. Setting up Amazon alert systems

III. C. Configuring Elastic beanstalk

IV. SSH access to Amazon instances

!MODULE 4 - OPENERP TRAINING

Description: Teaches the installation process and configuration of OpenERP in a server environment.



I. Installing OpenERP in a Windows Operating System

a) Preparing for the Instance Installation

(1) Generating and Accessing PPK File

b) Accessing Amazon

c) Downloading Package Files from Amazon

d) Installing PostgreSQL

e) Installing Python

f) Configuring PGAdmin

g) New Server Registration

h) Assigning New Databases Using PgAdmin

i) Creating Back-up in TAR Format



MODULE 5 - OPENERP PART II

Description: Continuation of the initial setup of OpenERP in Module 4.

• Required modules: module 4

• Number of hours: 4

I. Configuring OPENERP

a) Creating New Databases

b) Assigning Admin

c) Installing Applications

d) OpenERP Application Configurations

(1) Accounting, Warehouse, Purchases and Manufacturing

e) Assigning New Users

f) Assigning New Groups

!!MODULE 6 - SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TRACKING

Description: Teaches how to monitor software development processes using SAAS tools.

• Required modules: 4 and 5


I. Introduction to the software development life cycle

II. Software development agile methodologies

III. SAAS tools for monitoring software development

a) Bugtrackr

b) Assembla

IV. How to use Bugtrackr

V. How to use Assembla

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MODULE 7 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Description: Focuses on available SAAS for IT project management.



I. Introduction to project management

II. Project risk management discussion

III. SaaS tools for project management

a) Basecamp

IV. How to use basecamp

!MODULE 8 - QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT METHODS IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Description: This module will focus on how to use QA and QI methods specifically for health care relat-ed software applications and IT projects.



I. Configuring the testing environment

II. Developing use cases

III. Regression testing

IV. Full cycle testing

!MODULE 9 - NETWORK SECURITY USING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

Description: Demonstrates the use of Untangle and other Open Source Software tools to create a se-cure environment for health information exchanges.



I. Introduction to information security

II. Introduction to Open Source Software

III. Untangle software for increasing network security

a) Creating a virtual machine for untangle

IV. How to use VPN

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MODULE 10 - FORMULATING AN INFORMATION SYSTEMS STRATEGIC PLAN

Description: Focuses on administrative aspects in becoming a leader in technical fields in the hospital or health-related environment. The information systems strategic plan, or ISSP, guides the health or-ganization to an effective and efficient way of managing IT related services, as well employing industry standards for quality IT services in the working environment.



I. What is an ISSP

II. Components of an ISSP

III. Creating an ISSP

!PRACTICUM

Description: This helps in the assessing student’s capacity in deploying and maintaining a health IT software implementation environment; from determining requirements of an organization, setting up IT requirements, deploying applications, and sustainable management of the projects. Practicum part 1 presents the planning and designing phases of the assigned IT project in this course. The students must present their project, the IT environment they created, along with the necessary components, project management aspects, and monitoring tools to ensure continuity of their setup.

• Required modules: All modules



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