IDS 506: Health Information Management

(Survey of Healthcare and Information Technology)

Spring 2008, Call 23866, Wednesday 6:00-8:30 PM, Room LC A005

Yair M. Babad, UH 2403, Cell 310-431-6729, Fax 312-413-0385

e-mail: ybabad@uic.edu, URL: http://www.uic.edu/~ybabad

Office Hours Wednesday 5:00-6:00 PM

Updated: 1/14/2008 6:27:36

COURSE OBJECTIVE & PHILOSOPHY

This course explores the impact of technology on the healthcare industry, environment, and participants. It will survey the various types of healthcare systems, the technology used to support these systems, the stakeholders who use and / or contribute to each system and their interactions and requirements. It will analyze the strategic, economic, and operational considerations that affect the selection and implementation of healthcare systems. Emphasis will be placed on the ethical, privacy and security considerations that are related to the collection and dissemination of medical information. You will understand the critical trends in healthcare information technology and management, the different solutions available for the various participants in the healthcare arena, and the criteria needed to choose appropriate solutions that suit the needs.

 

TEXTBOOK AND READING MATERIAL

The textbook for the class is Managing Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach fro Health Care Executives, by Wager, Lee, and Glaser, Jossey-Bass (a Wiley imprint), 2005, ISBN 0-7879-7468-4 (WLG).

Recommended texts include Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care: Theory, Implementations and Applications, by McLaughlin and Kaluzny, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2006, ISBN 0-7637-2712-1 (MK); Public Health Informatics and Information Systems by O'Caroll, Yasnoff, Ward, Ripp and Martin (eds.), Springer, 2003, ISBN 0-387-95474-0 (OYWRM); and Medical Informatics by Shortliffe, Perreault, Wiederhold and Fagan (eds.), Springer, 2001, ISBN 0-387-98472-0 (SPWF). Other sources that are closely related to the class are Effective Healthcare Information Systems by Armoni, IRM Press 2002, ISBN 1-931777-01-2 (A2002); Managing Healthcare IS with Web-Enabled Technologies by Eder, Idea Group Publishing 2000, ISBN 1-878-28965-9 (E); Strategies for Healthcare IS by Stegwee and Spil, Idea Group Publishing 2001 ISBN 1-878289-89-6 (SS); Healthcare IS: Challenges of the New Millennium by Armoni, Idea Group Publishing 2000, ISBN 1-878-28962-4 (A2000); Health Information Management: Principles and Organization for Health IS by Skurka (ed.), Jossey-Bass (Wiley) 2003, ISBN 0-7879-5977-4 (S); The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century by the Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, 2003, ISBN 0-309-08704-X; and Ethics, Computing, and Medicine by Kenneth W. Goodman (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-46905-8; Ethics and Information Technology by Anderson and Goodman, Springer 2002, ISBN 0-387-95308-6.

I do not expect to cover all the material scheduled for each class session in class. But I expect you to be aware of this material. To this end you have two sources: the text book chapters as denoted in the syllabus, and my PowerPoint presentations that cover this material.

We will not "read the text in class". Rather, certain issues will be emphasized, a discussion will be held, and your question will be answered and discussed. You must read on your own and be familiar IN ADVANCE OF EACH CLASS with the assigned material as given in the schedule, and with the class notes available in my web page, and be ready to participate in the class discussions.

My web page has PowerPoint presentations for all the material that I will introduce in class. These summarize the contents of the textbook, in addition to other material that will be discussed in class. You are advised to print these presentations (probably with 3 or 6 slides per page, framed, in black and white printing format) prior to class, so that you can use them in class in lieu of notes. You are responsible for knowing the contents of these transparencies as well as the textbook’s material (and of course whatever is discussed in class).

 

COMMUNICATIONS & PREREQUISITES

I believe that open communications channels between all of us add significantly to the value of the class. You are welcome to contact me – preferably via e-mail. In particular, ALL questions and comments are welcome.

I maintain a web page for this class. To this end, get to my URL listed above, select this class, and you will find yourself in an "announcement file" for this course. This file includes references to related documents, such as this syllabus, homework, and PowerPoint presentation of class material, in addition to the latest announcements related to the class. The announcements in this file override the syllabus. All communications will use electronic mail. The assignments and other course materials can be printed out from the World Wide Web, at my URL given above.

A common theme in my courses is the development of your communications skills and use of available computer technology and common software tools. You are expected to submit your work using word-processing and spreadsheet tools. Your work should follow the standards specified in the PRESHINT.DOC file in my web site.

All assignments, presentation and reports are due, unless otherwise specified, by the Monday mid-night before the class in which they are due; presentations should reach me via my email, assignments and reports should reach me via TurnItIn (an anti-plagiarism system – instructions will be provided in the first class; class ID is 2146871, and the password is 23866 - the call number of the course), by this time. Assignment due-dates as given in the schedule or in class will be strictly adhered to and late assignments will not be accepted. Virus infected submissions will be deleted and not graded with no opportunity for resubmission. All assignments will have a filename in the format 506WkXLastNameMMDDYY.extension, where “MMDDYY” is the submission date, and “X” is the week related to the assignment (e.g., for presentations to be presented on week 3, X is 3; similarly, the reports summarizing week 3 presentation will also have X of 3).

 

COURSEWORK, QUIZZES AND EXAMS

I plan to invite business executives to certain classes, to present topics related to this class and share their experience with the students.

Students in the class will be divided into teams (of 1 to 2 students – will be determined in the first class). Each team will be assigned one weekly topic, per the enclosed schedule. The team's tasks will include:

·       Preparation of an introduction to their weekly topic as given in the class schedule, to be presented in class at the beginning of the evening assigned to the team, on the scope of 25-30 minutes. A professionally prepared presentation is expected. See the PRESHINT.DOC file on my web page for presentation advice. The selected topic should be one of the weekly topics noted in the course schedule, to be coordinated with me, or a topic selected by a guest executive (below).

·       For these weeks that have a guest executive, to be the host to the guest. This task includes:

·       Contacting the executive at least two weeks prior to his/her appearance in class, to identify what material should be distributed to the class in preparation for the executive's presentation, and to learn about any additional tasks the executive would like the team to perform.

·       Agreeing with the executive on a topic for the team’s presentation and report.

·       Preparations and distribution to the class of all the requested material before the presentation.

·       Introducing the executive in the class, as part of the topic's introduction.

·       Introduce to the class the significant business developments affecting the firm and its information systems functions, based on the firm's annual reports, newspaper and news magazine articles, the company's web pages, and information from the executive. The team has 5-10 minutes for this introduction, in addition to its presentation of its topic. This introduction should be included in the team's report.

·       Preparation of an extensive report summarizing the team's topic, submitted in the class following the week assigned to the team. The team will have to identify resources (such as web pages, books, research and trade journals articles) that relate to the team's topic, and include them in its report. Reports will also include a summary of the invited guest discussion, if a guest executive came to class in the team's week. Reports will be professionally organized and prepared using office technology, and are expected to be 20 pages or more in scope. See the PRESHINT.DOC file on my web page for report preparation advice. All reports should be submitted both on paper and electronically, so that they can later be distributed to the class.

Following each topic, each student will prepare each week a short summary (3-5 pages) of the presentation and discussion of the topic, to be submitted both electronically and on paper at the beginning of the next class. This report should follow the standards specified in the PRESHINT.DOC file. Of course, members of the team who prepares the extensive report for the topic are not required to submit the weekly short report.

Note:   For apparent reasons, no teams will be assigned to the first two weeks or in the last week of classes, and a short summary is not required for the topic of the last week of the class.

Your work will be available, through my web page, to all the students in the class, so that you can learn also from what your friends wrote and researched.

There will be no exams in this course. Rather, each class session (except the first one) may include a brief open book quiz, which stress understanding of the required reading material and the material covered in the last class. This system allows timely grade progress feedback, and motivates to prepare for each session (and thus increase the probability of quality participation and getting the most from the class sessions).

 

CLASS ATTENDANCE AND HONOR CODE

You are expected to attend all classes, and are responsible for all announcements made in class or in the announcement file. Makeup of quizzes or reports will be given only by approval PRIOR to the quiz or report, except for extreme circumstances. Punctuality is highly regarded; no student, if arriving late, will be given any extra time to complete a quiz, nor will makeup quizzes be offered.

The university's honor code will be adhered to. Cheating, copying, or plagiarism will result in an automatic failing grade for the problem, quiz, exam or project for all those participating in  the cheating or copying, and may lead to a failing grade in the course for all those students who are deemed to have consciously contributed to the cheating.

 

GRADING

Grades will be based on each team weekly extensive report (30%), the team class presentation (10%), the weekly short summaries (30%), and on the quizzes (30% - equally weighted, and dropping the worst one, but not more than 5% per quiz.). Final grades will be assigned on a curve, and I will exercise my judgment as to the cut points, as well as to the grading of students who miss or come late to many of the classes.

Don't nitpick about the grading. Persons who complain will not be rewarded for it; those who have the decency not to complain would deserve the same break. A request to look at one problem leads to re-grading of the whole paper, which often leads to a lower grade.

No "extra credit" opportunities will be offered or assigned to specific individuals under any circumstances; all students' grades will be based on the same components - this is an equal opportunity course.

 

TENTATIVE & APPROXIMATE COURSE SCHEDULE

This is the “condensed version” of the schedule. Detailed schedule and related resources are listed in the detailed course schedule.

This schedule is subjected to changes, either because we will spend more time on a particular issue, or because we will have a guest speaker.

Class

Date

Class Subjects

Topics

1

16-Jan

The Healthcare Industry and Information Technology

Overview of the Healthcare System

Health IS Stakeholders and Structure

2

23-Jan

The Healthcare Industry and Information Technology – cont.

 

 

3

30-Jan

Ethics, Privacy, Security, HIPAA

SPWF ch. 7; OYWRM chs. 10, 13

4

6-Feb

Ethics, Privacy, Security, HIPAA (cont.)

 

 

 

 

5

13-Feb

Healthcare Information Systems

WLG part 2

6

20-Feb

Healthcare Information Systems (cont.)

From Legacy to Current Systems

 

 

E ch. 7

7

27-Feb

Medical Data and Patient Record Systems

Electronic Patient Record Systems

Patient Care and Monitoring Systems

SPWF chs. 2, 9;   S chs. 2,

3;   A2002 ch. 10

SPWF chs. 12, 13; A2002 ch. 19

 

8

5-Mar

E-Health and Tele-Medicine

 

SPWF ch. 10; A2000 ch. 9; E chs. 4, 5, 11, 13; A2002 ch. 13

9

12-Mar

Information Technologies that Support Healthcare

WLG 8, 10

10

19-Mar

Standards and Health Informatics Challenges

WLG 9; SPWF 6; OYWRM ch. 11

 

26-Mar

*** No Class – Spring Break

11

2-Apr

Healthcare Regulations, Laws and Standards

Quality of Medical Information Data

 

WLG ch. 3

 

A2202 ch. 14;

12

9-Apr

Clinical and Healthcare Decision Support and Data Mining Systems

SPWF chs. 3, 16; OYWRM chs. 18, 23

13

16-Apr

Public Healthcare Systems

Many chapters in OYWRM

14

23-Apr

Public Healthcare Systems (cont.)

 

15

30-Apr

Healthcare Quality Management

MK chs. 1, 2, 3