Digital Health Workforce Academy

Your future in health is digital

DIRECTORY OF COURSES

AND SYLLABUS

September 8 2016

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Digital Health Workforce Academy

PREFACE

If you are working in health care and your work is not primarily digital, it soon will be.

Whether you are a clinician, an IM / IT professional, a health service manager / administrator, a researcher, health educator or in another role in the wide ranging industry of health, your future is digital.

Whether you work in hospitals, primary care, diagnostic services, public / population health, insurance, policy and planning agencies, academia, or any other setting, your future is digital.

Whether you work in one of the world’s most mature economies, or one of the world’s least mature, your future is digital.

The World Economic Forum, which counts amongst its contributors the world’s foremost political, business and other societal leaders, identifies three megatrends that are all well underway and which are profoundly changing every aspect of work and society, and every business. These are science-based physical breakthroughs – such as new materials and capabilities; biological breakthroughs; and digitization. And the critical enabler for the first two is digitization.

Health is no exception to the effects of digitization. In fact, it is one of the focal points.

The Digital Health Workforce Academy has been established to help:

• People who work in health, or who want to work in health, make the transition to digital workers. Even for digital natives, there is a great deal to learn in order to be a part of the digital health ecosystems that every nation and health service are now creating.

• Organizations that work in the health industry develop their digital health workforces.

• Organizations servicing health, such as IT companies, understand digitization in health.

The Academy’s courses are entirely online and self-paced. They target specific groups of people and specific issues, based on detailed knowledge of the digitization competencies required in health workplaces today. They are pragmatically oriented, enabling course completers to immediately apply the knowledge they have gained.

And importantly, the Academy’s courses are cumulative – they are competency-based so that they not only address the immediate issues at hand, but also build a comprehensive set of digital health skills and knowledge for today’s health workforces.

Welcome to the Academy – your future in health is digital.

David Rowlands

Founder, Digital Health Workforce Academy

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DIGITAL HEALTH WORKFORCE ACADEMY

DIRECTORY OF COURSES AND SYLLABUS

Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 4

Courses currently available ......................................................................................................................... 5

CLIN100 Clinical Practice in the Digital Age ......................................................................................... 6

CLIN200 Clinical Leadership in Digital Projects, Part A ........................................................................ 8

CLIN201 Clinical Leadership in Digital Projects, Part B ...................................................................... 10

CLIN202 Clinical Leadership in Digital Projects, Parts A and B .......................................................... 12

ICT100 Health for IT Professionals, Part A ........................................................................................ 13

Courses coming soon ................................................................................................................................ 15

ICT101 Health for IT Professionals, Part B (Available October ‘16) ................................................ 16

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Digital Health Workforce Academy

Introduction

Courses undertaken through the Digital Health Workforce Academy are self-paced and undertaken entirely online.

Recent systematic review and meta -analysis from the U.S. Department of Education found that learning outcomes from online learning exceeded those via face-to-face channels (2010); and the effectiveness of online learning has been corroborated by researchers from MIT, Harvard and Tsinghua Universities (Colvin et al, 2014).

The Academy’s courses are authored by leading health informaticians with experience globally. They are pragmatically oriented, delivering knowledge that can be immediately applied in health workplaces.

Certificates of achievement are provided, subject to successful completion of a quiz covering the content of the Course. In addition, a full set of course notes and references are provided for each course.

Our courses are delivered using Moodle, a learning platform that is proven and trusted by more than 85 million users worldwide.

They are hosted on the Cloud, and available through computers, tablets and smart phones.

All you need to do is register for a course and receive your logon details, then you can access the course at your own convenience.

References

Colvin, K., Champaign, J., Liu, A, Zhou, Q., Fredericks, C. & Pritchard, D. (2014). Learning in an Introductory Physics MOOC: All Cohorts Learn Equally, Including an On-Campus Class. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol. 15, No. 4. Retrieved from http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1902/3009.

U.S. Department of Education. (2010). Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies. Retrieved from http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf.

Courses currently available

CLIN100 Clinical Practice in the Digital Age

Target Audience

Clinicians from all clinical disciplines.

Recommended pre-requisites

Nil.

Course description

Health service delivery has entered the digital age. If your area of practice is not already working digitally, then it soon will be. Digitization either affects, or will affect, everything you do.

This course is designed for health professionals from all clinical disciplines. It is a foundation course. It provides information that all clinicians need to know about their working environments - but which are typically not addressed during clinical studies.

Learning Objectives

Having successfully completed this course, clinicians will be able to:

1. Explain and discuss the state of maturity of digitization in clinical practice and thereby: • Demonstrate ambitious but realistic expectations of current and planned clinical

information systems. • Assess potential impacts for their clinical practice and professions.

2. Describe health and biomedical informatics and its importance to clinical practice in the digital age.

3. Recognize major sources of complexity in health and biomedical informatics, and the nature of their complexity.

4. Advocate for evidence-based approaches to dealing with these complexities.

5. Distinguish between categories of clinical information systems and their clinical governance implications.

6. Recognize success (and failure) factors for clinical information system implementations.

7. Demonstrate awareness of patient safety in relation to clinical information systems and the ability to contribute to its improvement.

8. Identify high quality sources of further knowledge and skill development in health and biomedical informatics.

Topics

Module Part

1 1 Introduction - Overview of the course

2 The path to digitization in health

3 What is health & biomedical informatics?

2 Clinical data: The beating heart of health and biomedical informatics

3 1 Clinical data quality

2 Assessing clinical data quality

4 Distributed systems and interoperability

5 Health's complex, socio-technical system

6 Clinical information systems (CIS)

7 Making CIS work for clinicians

8 1 Patient safety

2 Clinical governance

9 Course review

10 Quiz and close

Estimated duration

The total Course duration is estimated at 8 hours.

However, the nature of self-paced learning is such that different people, in different contexts, require different amounts of time to become familiar with any given content. Accordingly, no guarantees can be given about either the minimal or maximal duration of the Modules or the Course. The durations above should be regarded as broad indications only.

CLIN200 Clinical Leadership in Digital Projects, Part A

Target Audience

Clinicians from all clinical disciplines.

Advised pre-requisites

CLIN100 Clinical Practice in the Digital Age

Course description

Digitization - the transformation of healthcare using digital technologies - is a complex socio-technical endeavor and in many cases is very disruptive as well as potentially beneficial. Benefits do not just accrue - they need to be managed to accrue. The informed involvement of clinicians is critical to success in clinical information systems projects.

This Course is one of two Parts which are collectively designed for clinicians from all health professional backgrounds who are or will be in leadership roles in the design, development, acquisition, deployment, implementation, management, disposal and/or evaluation of information technology projects.

This Course assumes a sound understanding of major concepts and issues in health informatics including the state of maturity of digitization in clinical practice; the nature of complexity in health and biomedical informatics; evidence-based approaches to dealing with these; and success (and failure) factors for clinical information system implementations. Some of the concepts highlighted in the foundation course Clinical Practice in the Digital Age (CLIN100) are revisited in considerably more detail.

Learning Objectives

Having successfully completed the two Parts of this Course, clinicians will be able to:

1. Apply problem solving methods and technical approaches to health and biomedical concepts.

2. Interpret, demonstrate and align the needs of stakeholders.

3. Apply quality principles to clinical information management and across the system lifecycle.

4. Appraise the value of clinical IT and manage clinical benefit realization.

5. Analyze issues and manage opportunities and risks associated with clinical IT.

6. Apply good practice to the governance of clinical IT.

7. Understand clinical models and their wider implications.

8. Apply the disciplines that lead to interoperability and re-use of clinical data and processes.

Topics

Module Part

1 1 Introduction - Overview of the course

2

3

Clinical leadership roles in health & biomedical informatics

Health & biomedical informatics

2 Success and failure in health IT projects

3 Complexity in health informatics

4 Innovation

5 Strategy, planning and alignment

6 Value in IT

7 Business analysis, modeling and improvement

8 Requirements and testing

9 System development methods

10 Vendor relationship management

11 Data development

12 Human factors and human-centered design

13 Course review

14 Examination and close

Estimated duration

The total Course duration is estimated at 25 hours.

However, the nature of self-paced learning is such that different people, in different contexts, require different amounts of time to become familiar with any given content. Accordingly, no guarantees can be given about either the minimal or maximal duration of the Modules or the Course. The durations above should be regarded as broad indications only.

CLIN201 Clinical Leadership in Digital Projects, Part B

Target Audience

Clinicians from all clinical disciplines.

Advised pre-requisites

CLIN100 Clinical Practice in the Digital Age

Course description

Digitization - the transformation of healthcare using digital technologies - is a complex socio-technical endeavor and in many cases is very disruptive as well as potentially beneficial. Benefits do not just accrue - they need to be managed to accrue. The informed involvement of clinicians is critical to success in clinical information systems projects.

This Course is one of two Parts which are collectively designed for clinicians from all health professional backgrounds who are or will be in leadership roles in the design, development, acquisition, deployment, implementation, management, disposal and/or evaluation of information technology projects.

This Course assumes a sound understanding of major concepts and issues in health informatics including the state of maturity of digitization in clinical practice; the nature of complexity in health and biomedical informatics; evidence-based approaches to dealing with these; and success (and failure) factors for clinical information system implementations. Some of the concepts highlighted in the foundation course Clinical Practice in the Digital Age (CLIN100) are revisited in considerably more detail.

Learning Objectives

Having successfully completed the two Parts of this Course, clinicians will be able to:

1. Apply problem solving methods and technical approaches to health and biomedical concepts.

2. Interpret, demonstrate and align the needs of stakeholders.

3. Apply quality principles to clinical information management and across the system lifecycle.

4. Appraise the value of clinical IT and manage clinical benefit realization.

5. Analyze issues and manage opportunities and risks associated with clinical IT.

6. Apply good practice to the governance of clinical IT.

7. Understand clinical models and their wider implications.

8. Apply the disciplines that lead to interoperability and re-use of clinical data and processes.

Topics

Module Part

1 1 Introduction - Overview of the course

2

3

Clinical leadership roles in health & biomedical informatics

Health & biomedical informatics

2 Leadership and engagement

3 IT governance

4 Benefit realization and management

5 Project management

6 Risk management

7 Change management

8 Architecture and standards

9 Quality management across the information system life cycle

10 Clinical information management and information culture

11 Patient safety

12 Information security

13 Course review

14 Examination and close

Estimated duration

The total Course duration is estimated at 25 hours.

However, the nature of self-paced learning is such that different people, in different contexts, require different amounts of time to become familiar with any given content. Accordingly, no guarantees can be given about either the minimal or maximal duration of the Modules or the Course. The durations above should be regarded as broad indications only.

CLIN202 Clinical Leadership in Digital Projects, Parts A and B

This offering provides a discounted package of the two previous courses.

ICT100 Health for IT Professionals, Part A

Target Audience

IT professionals who are new to or proposing to enter the health sector.

Advised pre-requisites

Nil.

Course description

Health is like any other industry - it has things in common with others and it has its idiosyncrasies – and the latter are important to productivity and success in the health industry.

If you want to be productive quickly in Health, you need to know the idiosyncrasies. This course is designed to reduce the time it takes for IT professionals to get to know and become fully productive in Health. It provides a competency-based orientation to the sector.

This Course is one of two Parts. It assumes a sound understanding of information and digital technologies, but little prior knowledge of health.

Learning Objectives

Having successfully completed the two Parts of this Course, IT professionals will be able to:

1. Understand a broad range of healthcare environments and their implications for digitization projects.

2. Apply situational awareness to the identification of and responses to health stakeholder needs.

3. Understand health care’s path to digitization, its current state and a range of future scenarios.

4. Understand the range of information systems commonly used in healthcare, their architectures and associated issues.

5. Understand health professional roles and use the language of healthcare.

6. Understand clinician and patient behaviors and recognize their IT implications.

7. Understand and know how to manage the complexities and idiosyncrasies of health care, in particular in relation to change and risk.

8. Identify and deal with a range of key challenges associated with health IT.

Topics

Module Part

1 1 Introduction - Overview of the course

2 Health and biomedical informatics

2 1

2

What is health?

Health’s idiosyncrasies

3 1

2

Health and biology

Health professionals

4 1

2

Factors relating to health

Public and population health

5 Health systems

6 Models of care

7 Digitization in health

8 Clinical information systems

9 Clinical decision-making and evidence-based practice

10 Socio-technical complexity

11 Health data

12 Course review

13 Quiz and close

Estimated duration

The total Course duration is estimated at 25 hours.

However, the nature of self-paced learning is such that different people, in different contexts, require different amounts of time to become familiar with any given content. Accordingly, no guarantees can be given about either the minimal or maximal duration of the Modules or the Course. The durations above should be regarded as broad indications only.

Courses coming soon

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Digital Health Workforce Academy

ICT101 Health for IT Professionals, Part B (Available October ‘16)

Target Audience

IT professionals who are new to or proposing to enter the health sector.

Advised pre-requisites

Nil.

Course description

Health is like any other industry - it has things in common with others and it has its idiosyncrasies – and the latter are important to productivity and success in the health industry.

If you want to be productive quickly in Health, you need to know the idiosyncrasies. This course is designed to reduce the time it takes for IT professionals to get to know and become fully productive in Health. It provides a competency-based orientation to the sector.

This Course is one of two Parts. It assumes a sound understanding of information and digital technologies, but little prior knowledge of health.

Learning Objectives

Having successfully completed the two Parts of this Course, IT professionals will be able to:

1. Understand a broad range of healthcare environments and their implications for digitization projects.

2. Apply situational awareness to the identification of and responses to health stakeholder needs.

3. Understand health care’s path to digitization, its current state and a range of future scenarios.

4. Understand the range of information systems commonly used in healthcare, their architectures and associated issues.

5. Understand health professional roles and use the language of healthcare.

6. Understand clinician and patient behaviors and recognize their IT implications.

7. Understand and know how to manage the complexities and idiosyncrasies of health care, in particular in relation to change and risk.

8. Identify and deal with a range of key challenges associated with health IT.