Course Details
Course Outline
10 days course
Introduction to Information Systems Management
- Kinds 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.
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 Technolog
- 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.
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.
