Health Informatics



This course will provide an introduction to healthcare informatics and provide frameworks for tackling real-world challenges in the healthcare environment, effective recruitment and engagement of clinicians on IT projects, as well as develops a broader understanding of how information technology can become a tool in achieving the triple aim.

Target audience: This course is intended for senior level nurse managers and executives, physicians, and information technology managers and executives who are involved in or have an interest in developing a better understanding of the role of information technology in clinical practice.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

  • • Understand the increasing importance of clinical informatics in driving improved clinical outcomes and operational efficiencies
  • • Identify new approaches to engaging clinical stakeholders into the design and implementation process that results in solutions that are more valuable tools to utilize in providing care
  • • Explore effective clinical information technology governance models that result in tangible benefits
  • • Gain insights into the challenges, opportunities and trends in healthcare informatics around the world
  • • Insight into how to use clinical information systems in enhancing quality





Course content will include facility management:

  • • Introduction to Clinical Informatics
  • • Developing Your Clinical Informatics Resources
  • • Improving Clinical Operations and Quality Excellence through Implementation of Information Technology
  • • One Organization’s Journey: from pen and paper to Clinical Transformation
  • • Patient Centric Care Design
  • • Data Privacy and Security; and the Clinician’s Role
  • • Clinical Informatics Trends Around the Globe




 





45 HOURS PER COURSE


30 hrs face time with JCI Faculty,
12 hrs self-paced learning,
3 hrs final exam


 



INSTRUCTOR

 




SHWETHA AKSHAYA
PhD, MHA, SQIL, FISQua
CONSULTANT

JOINT COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL
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