HEALTH INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION Post Baccalaureate Certificate Program

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HEALTH INFORMATION ADMINISTRATIONPost
Baccalaureate Certificate Program

• School of Public Health and Community Medicine
• University of Washington
• Seattle, Washington

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Health Information Administration

• The curriculum in this nine-month credit program
  covers health care and patient data systems,
  computer systems in health care with emphasis on
  electronic health records and health informatics,
  systems analysis, leadership skills, quality
  assurance, finance and legal issues.

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Curriculum ...

• Understand and apply information technology
• Computer concepts
• Networks and data communications
• Data, Information, File structures
• Data access and retrieval
• Data security

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Manage health information for data users and
stakeholders

• Administration and planning
• Financial management
• Biomedical and Health Services Research
• Marketing
• Clinical decision support

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Design patient record systems

• Hospitals and clinics
• HMOs
• Long Term Care Facilities
• Home Health and hospice
• ....and more

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Advocate for patient privacy and confidentiality

• Awareness
• Legal framework
• Education
• Balance and Choice
• Technology impact

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Influence policy and progress through standards

• Federal and state laws
• Professional societies
• Industry and accreditation standards for
• Patient record content
• Computerized systems
• Confidentiality and security

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Plan, design and implement health information
systems

• Health information departmental and institutional
  systems
• Systems theory and development
• Life cycle development process
• Data administration

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Establish and support data communication through
policy and technology

• Patient information transfer
• Care coordination
• Administrative Billing requirements
• Telecommunications
• Electronic data interchange

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Develop and support performance assessment for
health services

• Quantitative methods and research
• Statistics/Data presentation in health care
• Total Quality Management
• Continuous Quality Improvement

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Work with people

• Leadership
• Team building
• Strategic planning
• Organizational development
• Business process reengineering
• Education and training

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Health Information to Health Informatics

• Transformation
• Transition
• Collaboration

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Health Information to Health Informatics

• In medical/health informatics we develop and
  assess methods and systems for the acquisition,
  processing, and interpretation of patient data
  with the help of knowledge that is obtained in
  scientific research.
• van Bemmel

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Health Information to Health Informatics

• The science that deals with health information,
  its structure, acquisition, and uses.
• Stead

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Computer-Based Patient Record

• An electronic patient record that resides in a
  system specifically designed to support users
  through availability of complete and accurate
  data, practitioner reminders and alerts, clinical
  decision support systems, links to bodies of
  medical knowledge, and other aids
• Institute of Medicine

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Computer-Based Patient Record

• A computer-based patient record is electronically
  maintained information about an individuals
  lifetime health status and health care
• The computer-based patient record replaces the
  paper medical record as the primary source of
  information for health care, meeting all
  clinical, legal, and administrative requirements.
  CPRI

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Electronic Health Record

• An Electronic Health Record is any information
  relating to the past, present or future
  physical/mental health, or condition of an
  individual which resides in electronic system(s)
  used to capture, transmit, receive, store,
  retrieve, link, and manipulate multi-media data
  for the primary purpose of providing health care
  and health-related services.
• Electronic Health Records - Changing the Vision

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Health Informatics includes

• Biomedical research
• Clinical decision support - alerts/reminders
• Electronic Health Records
• Technology infrastructure - hardware, software,
  communications
• Workstations
• Vocabularies
• Computer and information science

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HIM contribution to Health Informatics

• Information infrastructure
• Clinical data quality
• Web/Intranet design
• Domain knowledge on content, role and users of
  the patient record
• Legal and regulatory perspectives
• Leadership to advance patient data
• Customer advocacy - privacy and security

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Program outcomes support transition

• Relate health information administrative
  clinical systems to care management
• Manage paper and electronic health information
  business processes in health care organizations -
  hospitals, ambulatory, long-term and home health
• Define patient record content and evaluate health
  care documentation
• Understand electronic health records in the
  context of health care informatics

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...and collaboration

• Lead teams to design system solutions to health
  information business processes in health care
  organizations and integrated delivery systems
• Develop policies and procedures for patient
  confidentiality and security practices and other
  areas of health information management
• Perform health data analysis, interpretation, and
  presentation
• Create and maintain data element inventories and
  data dictionaries
• Administer enterprise-wide confidentiality
  policies and programs

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HIA Curriculum

• Intro to Health Care Systems Health Data
  Systems
• Organizational Theory in Health Facilities
  Health Information Management
• Legal Concepts for Health Fields
• Finance Concepts for Health Care Managers
• Seminar in Problem Solving Decision-Making
• Professionalism Leadership
• Quality Assurance Research in Health Care
• Management Projects

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Courses which focus on Health Informatics

• Health Care Computer Systems and Electronic
  Health Records Foundation Information Systems
  Technology and Data Infrastructure
• Health Information Systems Analysis Life Cycle
  Process
• Capstone Management Project Experience with
  clinical/related systems

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Graduate entry-level positions and type of
organizations 1996- 1999

• Manager HMO outpatient medical record department
• Capitation Analyst medical insurance company
• Enrollment Director university medical health
  plan
• Audit/trainer university medical center finance
  foundation
• Director hospital department in planning stages
  for an electronic health record system

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Continued.

• Clinical Data Analyst research and analysis of
  data dictionary vocabulary - electronic health
  record system
• Cost Analyst multi-state health care insurance
  company
• Compliance Auditor university hospital system
• Manager of Medical Records, behavioral health
  facility
• Computer System Administration - technical
  support, university health center electronic
  health record project
• Application Analyst, commercial software
  development

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Our challenges

• Continue to educate Health Information Management
  students and colleagues in the practical
  strategies needed to move ahead to the electronic
  environment.
• Develop and expand collaboration in the health
  care community