Health Care IT: Challenges and Opportunities (Coursera)

Heath care decision-makers have to meet head-on the dynamic challenges of health care delivery quality, cost, access, and regulatory control. Additionally, this course integrates the Healthcare Information System as integral to the Quality Assurance Tracking Programs including measurement of systems inputs, processes, and outputs with special emphasis on systems outcomes research and organizational accountability to its various stakeholders, not the least of which are government regulators.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Where are we today and how did we get here? The legal and regulatory framework of Health IT

WEEK 2

A Patient’s Perspective to Health IT

WEEK 3

A Patient’s guide to the Doctors’ Secret World of technology

WEEK 4

A Focus on Digital Medicine

WEEK 5

The rise of the electronic medical record - Beyond EHRs