AHL 820 - Electronic Health Records: Process, Design, and Implementation

6 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn how to assess health care facilities and work with them to achieve and sustain optimization of health care workflows in an Electronic Health Records (EHR) system. Topics to be covered include practical implementation of meaningful use and clinical decision support systems, clinical process analysis and redesign, EHR functional requirements, and health data interchange standards.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to:
1. analyze standards associated with the EHR functional model, the personal health record (PHR) functional model, and the family of profiles associated with specific domain functional requirements;
2. describe data standards required for the interoperable exchange of health care data, including terminology, data elements, document standards, imaging standards, and medical device;
3. demonstrate the ability to document clinic processes to facilitate workflow analysis and redesign and how to migrate to an EHR system;
4. demonstrate the ability to work with practice staff and develop a set of plans to keep the practice running if the EHR system fails;
5. discuss the importance and use of clinical decision support systems for clinical and administrative use;
6. articulate a systems approach to usability and human factors as they apply to health information technology;
7. assess problems associated with a clinical decision support system and various types of errors in order to create or select potential solutions; and
8. evaluate user interface designs and systems evaluation methods in order to diagnose various types of errors and create potential solutions.