HIN (0308) 641 - Standards for Clinical Interoperability in Healthcare

Credits: 3.00

Students will be introduced to interoperable patient-centered health information technology that makes the data available to clinicians in a timely way. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of multi-disciplinary care planning, explore the technical principles of intra- and inter-organizational health interoperability and identify various interoperability standards in use.

The students will be able to:

• Identify health information technology (HIT) interoperability needs and priorities.

• Recognize the special requirements for implementing healthcare interoperability projects.

• Articulate the issues that health information exchange (HIE) is indented to address.

• Evaluate the concept of patient-driven care coordination and list technologies that can be used to determine care decisions.

• Compare and contrast the barriers and challenges achieving interoperable health information technology practices.