These are random notes from the first class (Introduction to Health Care and Public Health in the U.S./The Culture of Health Care) of the federally-funded course on HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, which is part of the HITECH Act.
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HITECH TRAINING GRANT:
You are our pilot class, this is the first time we're running this class through the Federal funding. It is the same curriculum offered nationally that every State in the nation is receiving. There is a competency exam being developed by Federal Government; not ready yet. This course has been put together by the OHSU, which is the Oregon Health Science University in Portland Oregon.
You are our pilot class, this is the first time we're running this class through the Federal funding. It is the same curriculum offered nationally that every State in the nation is receiving. There is a competency exam being developed by Federal Government; not ready yet. This course has been put together by the OHSU, which is the Oregon Health Science University in Portland Oregon.
There are three grants: 1-Training. 2-Development of the curriculum 3-Development of the competency exam. You will get a certificate from the college, once you finish your courses. We don't know how the Federal Government will recognize your education.
The goal of the grant is to have 10000 new HIT professionals until 2012.
One of the kind of jobs that health IT might be generating is to assist in the selection of EHR.
TEXTBOOK
One of the kind of jobs that health IT might be generating is to assist in the selection of EHR.
There will be a group presentation because working in groups is one of the things you will need to learn if you want to be a successful HIT professional. That's why the group will be graded collectively.
TEXTBOOK
The textbook we will use is: ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS, A Guide for Clinicians and Administrators by Jerome H. Carter, MD. Read it from cover to cover. You'll get standards, terminology, hardware, software. Gives you an introduction on HIT.
INFORMATICS
Informatics is just a fancy name for changing data that we collect into information, so that you can act on.
US HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
All of you have knowledge about the US Healthcare System but you may not have the lingo. The reason why we are having discussions about the US Healthcare System is because it doesn't work well for everybody. The areas we will cover are: 1-How is healthcare organized in the US. 2-How is healthcare delivered 3-How it is financed 4-Regulated, and 5-The culture of the healthcare system.
EHR:
Definition of an Electronic Health Record: The longitudinal collection of information about a patient, covering a lifetime.
Definition of an Electronic Health Record: The longitudinal collection of information about a patient, covering a lifetime.
Only 4% of the general care practices now in the US have an EHR, and 13% have something that it is close to an EHR but not there yet.
Since 2009, just having any EHR is not enough. You have to have a certified EHR. When you talk about certification, regulation is coming in. These EHRs must meet standards.
IF WE HAVE A PAPER RECORD AND WE SCAN IT, IS THAT AN EHR ALREADY? No. It is not structured data that can be searched or analyzed. It is just an image. However, there are modern scanners that can structure the documents.
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Barnaby
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