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Informatics and Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records
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Informatics and Meaningful
Use of Electronic Health Records
Course Description
Health information technology is a top national priority to improve quality and patient safety, care coordination and efficiency.
This course explains the history of biomedical informatics, gives the details of each major informatics domain and how they relate to the national health information technology build-out. Learn how informatics grew into its essential role in clinical education.
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Target Audience
This CME activity is intended for physicians and other health care leaders who wish to learn the fundamentals of bioinformatics and issues in today’s national health information technology policy. This is a course in the Health IT Leadership Certificate and an elective course in the degree and certification prerequisite curriculum.
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Course Objectives »
- Review the recurrent themes (e.g. data, decision making, human factors, system design, standards, natural language processing, and ethics) and common applications (EHRs, telehealth, clinical decision support, public/population health, information retrieval, bioinformatics) of informatics in healthcare and biomedicine
- Discuss the current status of the field and its evolving role in clinical education
- Describe the role of government in HIT, and especially in “meaningful use” of EHRs
- Identify additional sources of informatics’ knowledge, resources, and training appropriate for physician leaders.
CME
InterAct Express (self study) - 4 CME
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Potential Conflicts of Interest
Consistent with ACPE CME policies, everyone involved in the development, management, presentation and evaluation of this CME activity has provided full disclosure information, and there are no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Faculty Credentials
Edward H Shortliffe, MD, PhD
President and CEO
American Medical Informatics Association
Method of Physician Participation
InterAct Express (self-study) - To earn CME credit, you must watch all the lectures for this course (web only), and read the course materials. Estimated time to complete course- 4 hours.
Evaluation Method
Each ACPE CME activity includes an evaluation process to determine that the learning objectives have been met and that the activity was of educational value to the target audience and was unbiased. The evaluation also assesses whether or not the CME activity resulted in a change in physician practice behavior and offers participants a method of feedback.
Course formats and materials
InterAct Express (self-study): course lectures and readings on the web, there are no materials shipped, this course is completely online only. There is no online discussion or assignments for Express.
Interact Requirements
System: Microsoft Windows 2000 or later / Mac OS X v10.4 or later
Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 or later / Safari 3.x or later / Firefox 3.x Windows.
(Firefox for Macintosh is NOT supported)
 Flash and Adobe Reader required.
Accreditation — The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation — The American College of Physician Executives designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Original Course Release Date (InterAct distance education only) — April 2011.
Course Termination Date (InterAct distance education only) — April 2014.
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