Interoperability, Standards and Health Information Exchange

Health care interoperability is the ability of systems to exchange and use health information, and it requires standards and the associated architecture to support them. Health information exchange helps facilitate coordinated patient care, reduce costs and improve care quality by providing more complete medical information when needed. Through real-world examples, cases and hands-on activities, you get an overview of interoperability, health information exchange and common standards used in healthcare today.

Course Outline

Course Objectives

Compare and contrast the current approaches to health information technology (HIT) interoperability
Describe the HIT standards’ process and the primary standards development
Explore U.S. and international HIT interoperability standards
Describe the principles, challenges, benefits, limitations and policies of health information exchange
Evaluate various health information exchanges models
Apply interoperability principles and standards to an HIT integration project

What You Learn

Interoperability and Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Privacy and Security with regards to HIE
HIE marketplaces and barriers to adoption
Interoperability and role of standards
Standards development organizations
Clinical document architecture
Clinical terminology, coding and classification schemes, SNOMED CT
Registries
How APIs are used
Patient matching and identifiers
Enterprise master patient index
Algorithmic matching
Stakeholders and governance
Planning for and challenges to sustainability
Implementation
Measuring the value of HIE
Emerging trends and opportunities

How You Learn

Discussions
Written assignments
Quizzes
Final project

Sections

Canceled

Type: Online, Start Anytime

Cost: $495.00

Start Now, you have 180 days to complete this course once enrolled.

Online

2 semester units

Section Notes

Online, enroll anytime. This continuous enrollment course begins when you enroll. You have a minimum of 60 days and a maximum of 180 days to complete the course.

Students must score a 70% or higher on the final exam to pass the course.

Section Materials

(Mandatory)
Health Information Exchange by Brian Dixon
© 2016 Academic Press 1st edition ISBN-13: 978-0128031353
(Mandatory)
Principles of Health Interoperability SNOMED CT, HL7, & FHIR by Tim Benson
© 2016 Springer 3rd edition ISBN-13: 978-3319303680

Sep 01 to Dec 31