Professor: Thomas A. Horan, Ph.D.
Phone: 909. 607.9302
Office: ACB 213B
Office Hours: Thursdays 4PM-6:00PM or by appointment
Email: tom.horan@cgu.edu
Class Date/Location*:
3/28-3/30 – Boston MA
4/11-4/13 - CGU

Course Coordinator: Sue Feldman, RN, M.Ed.
Email: sue.feldman@cgu.edu

*This course is taught as an intensive course on two separate weekends. Attendance is required on both weekends to obtain full course credit.

This course will focus on electronic health records generally and personal health records specifically, with a unique opportunity to engage in dialogue with most respected experts in the field of Health Informatics. Through presentations, panel discussions, and case study analyses participants will explore:

--Best practices and guidelines for the use of eHealth applications (e.g. Electronic Health Records [EHRs], Personal Health Records [PHRs], secure messaging, web visits)
--The evidence base that exists regarding technology's role in behavior change and chronic disease management (e.g. diabetes, heart failure, depression)
--The role of eHealth in enhancing patient safety
--The value proposition for physicians and other providers of using eHealth strategies
--Consumers’ perspectives on eHealth applications and technologies, and their viewpoint about the impact on healthcare costs, quality and satisfaction
--Information about working collaboratively and communicating effectively with patients to wade through the plethora of information on the Internet
--Opportunities and risks in clinical data sharing,
--Discussion of the potential for provider and patient technologies to support improved public health reporting and community wellness
--Future trends in patient-centered computing and eHealth.
--PHR uses across diverse communities
--Consumer options for PHRs
--The role of consumer informatics in practice
--PHRs in times of emergency
--Educating the consumer on HIT
--The effect of policy on consumer adoption of HIT
--Consumer use of HIT

This course will serve to educate participants on the gaps and needs of the consumer as a springboard for considering and enacting exciting new ideas for using e-health systems to provide benefits throughout society. This course will also provide an opportunity for educators to share their interests and experiences in providing a consumer health informatics perspective in the classroom. This course includes attendance of presentations, case studies and the following workshops:

--Working with Your Patients to Evaluate and Enhance Quality of Care
--Using an Electronic Health Record (EHR) for Population Health Management
--Engaging Patients in Using Personal Health Records (PHRs) Effectively
--Personal Health Records: The Basics
--Successfully Implementing an EHR System
--Costs and Benefits of Implementing EHR and PHR Solutions Into Practice Settings
--eHealth Solutions for Reducing Errors and Transforming Healthcare Quality†
--Advances in Behavioral Telehealth


Learning Objectives:
This course will provide the participant with:

--New knowledge about the evidence base for patient centered computing and eHealth
--The ability to identify best practices and guidelines for patient centered computing
--A better understanding about the theoretical and practical opportunities and challenges in implementing and utilizing patient-centered eHealth applications
--A practical understanding of the issues surrounding healthcare information exchange, and data reuse for public health and community wellness
--An understanding of the attributes of PHR systems currently available to a variety of consumer communities (diverse, disabled, chronic, etc.)
--Increased knowledge about the role of IT in disability determination
--An appreciation of the role of the ONC in HIT
--Expanded knowledge of the advantages of an interoperable health information network in relation to emergency medical systems
--Increased familiarity about the various aspects of HIT education as it relates to educating the consumer
--An awareness of the main advantages of a PHR for self-care management
--Understanding the role of HIPAA as it applies to various types of electronic records