Program Overview

Program Overview

The university program in question is BMI 5313 - Foundations of Electronic Health Records and Clinical Information Systems. This course is designed to provide informatics students with an overview of the key concepts related to implementing a clinically-oriented information system.

Course Details

• 3 semester credit hours
• Lecture contact hours: 2
• Lab contact hours: 3
• Web-based and classroom instruction
• Lab Fee: $30

Course Objectives

This course will examine how health data are collected, used, and the impact of electronic records on health data. The course will review:

• Vocabulary standards
• Standards development
• Languages used
• Usability
• The impact of electronic health records on healthcare, including legal, financial, and clinical design issues
• The challenges encountered during training and the go-live processes

Learning Outcomes

Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

• Identify the government's definition and criteria of a certified EHR
• Describe the relationship between quality, patient safety, and the EHR
• Analyze issues with EHR and clinical information system implementation
• Evaluate an EHR product utilizing an IT model/framework
• Utilize SAFER Guides in EHR design and implementation to prevent sentinel events
• Apply core competencies needed to perform a technology assessment in healthcare
• Determine user needs in relation to problem and requirement analysis
• Evaluate clinical decision support models in healthcare
• Create a feasibility report that identifies a clinical decision support model capable of addressing a specific clinical problem

Hands-on Experience

Students will have hands-on experience with an electronic health record in a training environment.