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Introduction to Healthcare Informatics Standards

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Introduction to Healthcare Informatics Standards is an AMIA e-Learning course designed to explore the landscape of healthcare informatics standards and focus on the benefits that the adoption of standards might bring toward successful transformation of healthcare in the United States. This course uses case-based scenarios and examples to demonstrate how standards impact common clinician and patient activities and interactions.Introduction to Healthcare Informatics Standards was authored by W. Ed Hammond in collaboration with the MedBiquitous Consortium and the American Medical Informatics Association.The learning objectives designed for individuals who complete this course are:

  • Describe the importance of healthcare informatics standards.
  • Identify situations where healthcare informatics standards can positively impact clinical care.
  • Describe how healthcare informatics standards support many common administrative and clinical functions in various healthcare situations.
  • Recognize the challenges to implementing healthcare informatics standards.

AMIA is committed to promoting the use of informatics standards within the healthcare industry and believes that the widespread use of information technology, particularly electronic health records, can support the achievement of this goal.
Who Should Take the Course

  • CIOs of health systems and management level hospital and clinical staff required to make decisions regarding the implementation of healthcare IT systems.
  • Technical staff implementing new systems to learn about the basics of standards and the relationships various standards to one another.
  • Informaticians seeking an introduction to standards as they create and refine healthcare information technologies.
  • Consultants and vendor representative who advocate and make recommendations on the implementation of healthcare information technologies and selection of standards to adopt.
  • Other healthcare professionals involved in the analysis, management, and use of patient data.

Continuing Medical Education

AMIA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. AMIA designates this continuing medical education for up to 1 hour of Category 1 credit toward the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he or she actually spends in the educational activity.DisclosureAMIA requires that prior to the start of a program, all faculty must disclose the existence of any financial interest and/or other relationships they may have with the manufacturer or manufacturers of any commercial product(s) to be discussed during their presentation. This includes any honoraria/expenses, grants, consultant role, speaker's bureau membership, stock ownership, or any other special relationship.Disclosure StatementW. Ed Hammond: None.
Credits

The American Medical Informatics Association and MedBiquitous would like to gratefully acknowledge the role of Dr. Ed Hammond in authoring Introduction to Healthcare Informatics Standards. Dr. Hammond is a true pioneer in advancing the cause by developing and promoting biomedical and healthcare informatics standards with the ultimate objective of improving the healthcare delivery system.
 
Dr. Hammond is Professor-emeritus, Community and Family Medicine, School of Medicine and Professor-emeritus, Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Health Sectors Management Division of the Fuqua School of Business. He has had extensive experience in the design and implementation of electronic health records and is a co-developer of The Medical Record (TMR), which functions in both inpatient and outpatient settings and is a clinical as well as a billing record system. He is also involved in the development of health data standards and controlled vocabularies.
 
Introduction to Healthcare Informatics Standards was jointly developed by the American Medical Informatics Association and MedBiquitous to educate a broad range of healthcare and government professionals on the benefits of healthcare informatics standards. This course uses the SCORM for Healthcare standard to enable others to deliver and reuse this content in other environments. We gratefully acknowledge Accelera as our development partner and Pfizer for providing a grant to support the production of this course.
 

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