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Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics is a graduate-level, hands-on interactive exploration of real informatics tools and techniques offered by the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota's National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. We will be incorporating technology-enabled educational innovations to bring the subject matter to life. Over the 10 modules, we will create a vital online learning community and a working healthcare informatics network. We will explore perspectives of clinicians like dentists, physical therapists, nurses, and physicians in all sorts of practice settings worldwide. Emerging technologies, telehealth, gaming, simulations, and eScience are just some of the topics that we will consider. Throughout the course, we’ll focus on creativity, controversy, and collaboration - as we collectively imagine and create the future within the rapidly evolving healthcare informatics milieu. All healthcare professionals and IT geeks are welcome!
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Introduction
- Week 1 - Informatics Theory
Week 1 begins! This week, we explore and apply theories of healthcare informatics to professional practice. By the end of this week, you will be able to: describe informatics theory, analyze informatics theory related to practice and analyze health topics of i... - Week 2 - Data, Information, and Knowledge
This module explores and applies standardized terminologies to professional practice. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: analyze the transformation of data to information to knowledge and explore and apply standardized terminologies to profes... - Week 3 - Electronic Health Record (EHR) Components, Evidence-Based Practice
This module links EHR use to evidence-based practice. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: identify the benefits and goals of an electronic health record and analyze evidence-based practice within the context of the electronic health record. - Week 4 - Quality Improvement/ Workflow Analysis/ Redesign
Week 5 begins! This week we examine informatics in relationship to new technologies in healthcare. Telehealth and technology are creating new ways to link people, and care, and health information. By the end of this week, you will be able to: examine applicati... - Week 5 - Telehealth/ Consumer Health/ Mobile Technology
This module examines informatics in relationship to new technologies in healthcare. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: examine applications of telehealth technologies and describe methods of engaging consumers in using health information tech... - Week 6 - Community/ Population Health
This module relates informatics to community and population health. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: relate informatics to community and population health and analyze applications of geospatial information systems and health. - Week 7 - Informatics, Gaming, and Simulation
This module describes applications of gaming, simulation, and virtual reality tools in healthcare. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: analyze informatics and gaming in relationship to health and healthcare and describe use of simulations and ... - Week 8 - Informatics and Ethics
This module explores ethical issues related to healthcare informatics in the interprofessional context. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: explore ethical issues related to healthcare informatics in the interprofessional context and analyze s... - Week 9 - Data Exchange and Interoperability
This module explores interprofessional aspects of healthcare data exchange and interoperability. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: describe information exchange and interoperability and analyze interprofessional aspects of information exchan... - Week 10 - Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge
This module explores the contribution of healthcare informatics to the foundation of knowledge in healthcare. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: analyze implications of Big Data for healthcare research and synthesize insights related to inter...
Instructors
Karen Monsen, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
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The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is an American university founded in 1851.
It is located jointly in the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, known as the Twin Cities, in the state of Minnesota in the United States. The university is the oldest and largest part of Minnesota's university system. It is often ranked among the top 30 universities in the world by the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Its student body is the second largest in the United States, with 52,557 students and a ratio of 1 professor to 16 students. It is located on two campuses in each of the two cities, linked by a dedicated bus system. Because of Minnesota's unique geography (more than 12,000 lakes, and hundreds of miles of parks and forests), the university is heavily involved in research into the environment, renewable resources and energy, and sustainable development. Its annual economic impact on the local economy is estimated at 8.9 billion dollars.
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