Health Information Systems and Electronic Health Records

Code:

IM2014_07

Acronym:

SISRCE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medical Informatics

Instance: 2014/2015 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Programme in Medical Informatics

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIM	21	Current Studies Plan	1	-	6	55	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Provide the students with knowledge and skills to select, design and manage health information systems and electronic health records

Learning outcomes and competences

Knowledge

• General characteristics of health information systems such as patient record, patient monitoring, imaging, public health, educational, bioinformatics and scholarly systems
• Core architectures and technologies of these core systems, focusing on commonalities and differences and design
• Architectures, components and examples of health information systems, especially hospital information systems, office/practice information systems, to support health care professionals and managers of health care institutions
• Specify IT system functions that support ethical, secure, efficient, and responsible use of information in clinical decision making and practice
• Architectures and examples of information systems to support patients and the public
• Architectures and examples of information systems to support policy makers and managers of community/district/regional health care services
• Different phases of the development of HIS, and current trends in the development of such systems
• Key components of clinical information workflows: identifying safety problems, medication delivery, test and results management, communication, documentation, information security and health IT deployment
• Organisational information strategy

Skills

• To use in an efficient and responsible way information processing tools, to support health care professionals’ practice and their decision making
• To plan Health Information Systems oriented to health services aims
• To address workflow and data collection issues from a clinical perspective, including quality measurement and improvement
• To define Health Information Systems requirements
• To analyze clinical process and information flows to promote patient safety and care quality and design UML diagrams on health processes
• To identify the main issues and constraints in the implementation of HIS
• To manage Health Information Systems

Working method

Presencial

Program

• How can computers help healthcare: what is a system, functions of computer systems, the need for a computer syste


• Understanding Health Information Systems


• Development and implementation of Health Information Systems: system acquisition, specifying information processes, building new systems, incorporating remote service, designing for effectiveness, planning for change


• Functions of HIS: Patient management and billing, departmental management, care delivery and clinical documentation, clinical decision support, financial and resource management


• Historical evolution of HIS: central systems, departmental systems, integrated systems from single vendors, architecture of a changing environment


• The importance of shared concepts among HIS


• Barriers in data collection, data integration and process integration


• Change management


• Current trends in HIS development


• Main difficulties in HIS


• Meaningful use

Mandatory literature

Shortliffe E, Cimino J. ; . Biomedical Informatics - Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 3rd ed, Springer, 2006
H. Pardes , Harold P. Lehmann , Patricia A. Abbott , Nancy K. Roderer , Adam Rothschild , Steven F. Mandell , Jorge A. Ferrer , Robert E. Miller , Marion J. Ball; Aspects of Electronic Health Record Systems, Springer; 2 edition , 2006

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching methods

• Lectures with presentation and discussion of topics, group exercises and individual interpretation
• Research project in group with the presentation of a final scientific paper

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation

• Final exam (10 points)
• Scientic paper  (10 points)