Course Description Form Course Code: Course Title: Teaching Activity: Medium of Instruction : Prior Knowledge*: Assessment: Duration: Subject Lecturer : Email Contact: Phone: Department Office NBF4 Applied Clinical Informatics Lectures and tutorials on 80 hrs eLearning platform Project/field work 8 hrs Lab 0 hrs English supplemented by Cantonese Knowledge in healthcare, hospital administration and management, or information technology Coursework 70 % Online Quiz 30 % 18 January, 2014 – 18 July, 2014 Dr. Lawrence Chan [email protected] (852) 3400-8561 Department of Health Technology and Informatics Y902 * Students are responsible to ensure they have the required prior knowledge to study the subject. 1. SUBJECT ROLE AND PURPOSE The goals of this course are to enhance eHealth capabilities of the Asian Pacific region, especially the Greater China; to promote knowledge of health informatics for healthcare professionals in the region; to offer practical training for healthcare IT professional to facilitate their work; and to cultivate the best practice and knowledge sharing in the industry. 2. INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Upon successful completion of this subject, students will be able to: 1) acquire knowledge of health informatics for healthcare professions 2) obtain practical training to facilitate the work related to healthcare IT 3) cultivate the best practice and knowledge sharing with the industry 3. TEACHING AND LEARNING APPROACH The course will be taught in an asynchronous manner using the following teaching modalities: 1) Language: English, supplemented by Cantonese if necessary 2) eLearning modules 3) Voice-over or video presentation files for downloading / online learning - The key material is delivered using powerpoint or quicktime (.wmv)/ flash plug-in which is freely available and already installed in almost all Web browsers. The content is easily accessed by connections to the Internet using a telephone modem or broadband 4) Student feedback & online / offline tutorial 5) Optional session including: a) Participation in health informatics conference or meeting with expert practitioners in health informatics, or b) Site visit to a hospital with world-class informatics application to realize the practical and clinical values of IT systems 4. ASSESSMENT 1) Participation in discussion forum: Activeness and contribution in discussion in tutorial. It is mandatory that the students need to attend the discussion forum of the course on the web and respond to the topics/questions posted by the instructors. The hit rate and quality of students’ responses will be assessed. 2) Final Project: Report or reflective essay on a case study. The length of report or essay should be limited to 1000-2500 words. 3) Online Quiz: Post module online multiple choice questions 4.1 Weighting Students will be assessed on the basis of coursework and online quiz with the following distribution: Description Qty Weight Due Dates Course Work (70%) 1. Discussion participation in tutorial 2. Final project Online Quiz (30%) Post module online multiple choice questions Total Notes: 4.2 NA 1 30% 40% Continuous TBC 1 _30% TBC 100% Students must attend at least 70% of the lectures and tutorials on eLearning platform in order to be issued the Certificate of Attendance, or students must attend at least 70% of the lectures and tutorials on eLearning platform and obtain an overall pass in order to be issued the Certificate of Attainment and AMIA Certificate. Methods a) Discussion participation in online tutorial: The students will use Learn@PolyU to interact with each other and the instructors. The discussion will be facilitated by messaging function in discussion forum. Each instructor will post a topic related to the lecture for discussion. The activeness and contribution of the students will be assessed by the instructors. It is mandatory that the students need to attend the discussion forum of the course on the web and respond to the topics/questions posted by the instructors. Otherwise, fail grade will be given in this component. The hit rate and quality of students’ responses will be assessed. b) Final project: Students are required to write a reflective essay or report on a topic discussed in any module, or any recent conference attended by the student. The essay will be assessed in the following aspects: 1) relevancy to applied clinical informatics 2) Significance of the topic or conference theme of interest 3) Contribution on the best practice and knowledge sharing in the industry The length is limited to 1,000-2,500 words. It should be typed on A4 paper with font size 12; Time New Roman; 1.5 line spacing; 1” margins all round. Students should submit a SOFT copy of the assignment to Learn@PolyU. Please note that NO late submission will be accepted under any circumstances. c) Online Quiz: This will take the form of ten 30-minute online quizzes for ten eLearning modules. For each module, ten multiple choice questions will be given to students. The students need to answer all the questions independently through Learn@PolyU. To maintain the students’ academic honesty, the order of the questions will be randomized for presenting to each student. 4.3 Grading Grade A+ A B+ B C+ C Description Subject Assessment Criteria Exceptionally The student’s work is exceptionally outstanding. It exceeds outstanding the intended subject learning outcomes in all regards. Outstanding The student’s work is of an outstanding. It exceeds the intended subject learning outcomes in nearly all regards. Very good The student’s work is very good. It exceeds the intended subject learning outcomes in most regards. Good The student’s work is good. It exceeds the intended subject learning outcomes in some regards. Wholly The student’s work is wholly satisfactory. It fully meets the satisfactory intended subject learning outcomes. Satisfactory The student’s work is satisfactory. It largely meets the D+ D F Barely satisfactory Barely adequate Inadequate intended subject learning outcomes. The student’s work is barely satisfactory. It marginally meets the intended subject t learning outcomes. The student’s work is barely adequate. It meets the intended subject learning outcomes only in some regards. The student’s work is inadequate. It fails to meet many of the intended subject learning outcomes. 5. OTHER REQUIREMENTS 5.1 Plagiarism Students are strongly advised to pay attention to the rules and guidance notes regarding plagiarism and how sources should be referred to and bibliographic referencing in the Student Handbook. The University regulations will be invoked where there is evidence of collusion between individuals. The work of others, which is included in the assignment must be attributed to its source (a full bibliography and a list of references must be submitted). Failure to observe such requirements will definitely lead to serious consequence for your study of this subject and registration at the PolyU. 5.2 Attendance Participation in tutorial sessions is an essential part of the learning process. Activeness in discussion is of vital importance. Students shall be required to attend at least 70% of tutorial and lecture sessions in the course in order to be issued the Certificate of Attendance. 5.3 Dishonesty Apart from plagiarism, the School has high expectation on professional conducts among students therefore the following dishonest behavior is unacceptable in any circumstances: a) deliberate copying or attempting to copy the work of other students; b) use of or attempting to use information prohibited from use in that form of assessment; c) submitting the work of another as your own; Please be reminded that dishonesty in completing any of the assessment items of course work will result in very serious consequence (e.g. "fail" grade for the concerned subject, suspension of study, and termination of registration in severe cases). 6. TEACHING PLAN This serves as a guide to the order of delivery of the syllabus. On some occasions, topics may be carried over into the following meeting. For some areas of the syllabus the set texts do not reach the minimum level of coverage required and hence the lecturer will give additional references. Modules 1. Introduction to Health Informatics and Healthcare IT, Regional Electronic Health Record 2. Health informatics Terminology and Standards and information management 3. Evidence Based Medicine and Clinical Decision Support with IT 4. CPOE and Pharmaceutical Informatics Measurable learning objectives and learning outcomes • Understand the background of health informatics • Realize the benefits and impact of informatics and IT development in clinical care • Comprehend the basic concepts of healthcare system development • Understand the basic concept of electronic health record • Realize the benefits and values of establishing a regional electronic health record • Identify the pitfalls and difficulties in developing and implementing a regional electronic health record • Understand the background of terminology and standards • Apply the basic concepts and principles of commonly used healthcare terminology and standards (e.g. ICD, LOINC, SNOMED, HL7...etc.) • Apply the values of terminology and standards in IT system design • Understand the basic concepts of data collection, data management and data analysis • Apply the principles of data management life cycle in clinical healthcare • Identify the gap and pitfalls for data management in clinical practice and healthcare IT design • Understand the basic concepts and values of clinical decision support • Understand the core components of clinical decision support system and the success factors for development and implementation • Identify the pitfalls and difficulties for clinical decision support implementation • Apply the basic concepts and prinicples of evidence based medicine in clincial practice • Realize the benefits and values of IT in evidence based medicine execution • Identify the pitfalls and difficulties in development and implementation • Understand the background of computer physician order entry and pharmacy systems. • Realize the benefits and values of CPOE and pharmacy systems • Apply the concepts and principles in CPOE design and Start Date of each Module 18 Jan, 2014 – 31 Jan, 2014 1 Feb, 2014 – 14 Feb, 2014 15 Feb, 2014 – 28 Feb, 2014 1 Mar, 2014 – 14 Mar, 2014 5. Imaging Informatics 6. Privacy, security and confidentiality 7. Nursing informatics and allied health informatics 8. Consumer Health, Public Health Informatics and telemedicine 9. IT Project Management in Healthcare 10. Bioinformatics 11. Health informatics in practice (Face-to-face delivery) implementation • Identify the pitfalls ans difficulties of CPOE and pharmacy system implementation • Understand the basic concepts of imaging informatics • Realize the values of imaging informatics • Apply the concepts and priniples of imaging in clinical practice • Identify the pitfalls and difficulties in development and implementation • Understand the basic concepts of privacy, confidentiality and security • Realize the values of protecting health information • Apply the concepts and principles protection of health information in practice • Ethical issue • Healthcare IT: from theory to execution and implementation • Understand the basic concept of risk management • Understand the impact of risks caused and solved by IT systems • Identify the pitfalls and difficulties in execution related • Apply the concepts and principles of nursing and allied health informatics in clinical practice • Understand the basic concepts of consumer and public health informatics • Apply the basic concepts of consumer and public health informatics • Realize the values of consumer and public health informatics • Identifying the pitfalls and challenges in consumer and public health informatics • The value of project management in health IT • Project management methodology • Risk management and problem resolution in HIT & healthcare • Acquire the knowledge of the biotechnology information repositories, such as NCBI databases, and the search algorithms for genes, proteins, RNA’s, peptides, disease biomarkers, compounds and biologics from these repositories • Apply bioinformatics analysis knowledge and techniques for clinical data analysis • Introduction to health systems • Realizing value of health IT investments • Practical tips in health IT implementations • Site visit to regional hospitals with world class informatics applications in practice 15 Mar, 2014 – 28 Mar, 2014 29 Mar, 2014 – 11 Apr, 2014 12 Apr, 2014 – 25 Apr, 2014 26 Apr, 2014 – 9 May, 2014 10 May, 2014 – 23 May, 2014 24May, 2014 – 6 Jun , 2014 TBC 7. TEXTBOOK AND RECOMMENDED BOOKS 7.1 Recommended Textbook(s) Mohammed, S. and J. Fiaidhi (2010). Ubiquitous health and medical informatics : the ubiquity 2.0 trend and beyond. Hershey, PA : Medical Information Science Reference. Bichindaritz I., S. Vaidya, A. Jain and L.C. Jain (2010). Computational Intelligence in Healthcare 4: Advanced Methodologies. Studies in Computational Intelligence 309. Bali, R. K. and A. N. Dwivedi (2007). Healthcare Knowledge Management: Issues, Advances and Successes. New York, Springer Science + Business Media LLC. Goldstein D., P. J. Groen and S. Ponkshe (2007). Medical Informatics 20/20: Quality and Electronic Health Records through Collaboration, Open Solutions, and Innovation. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. 7.2 Other Reference Sources Journals and proceedings: 1. Journal of Biomedical Informatics: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464 2. Journal of American Medical Informatics Association: http://jamia.bmj.com/ 3. Journal of Digital Imaging: http://www.springer.com/medicine/radiology/journal/10278 4. Bioinformatics: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/