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Catalog Overview

Welcome to elearning Academy’s course catalog where you can find the freshest content and the hottest topics in healthcare IT.  Check back often as new course offerings and updated material will be added on the subjects to keep you ahead of the healthcare IT curve in both clinical and business applications.

Topic: Business Information Systems and Business Continuity

Audience: Clinical and IT Leadership, BIS, Payor

• Adapting to the Changing Face of Self-Pay
• From Business Continuity to Continuous Availability: New Technologies, New Strategies
• Business Systems in an eHealth World
• Thinking Outside the Box: Tips and Tricks from the Michigan State CIO Director

Topic: Clinical and IT Leadership

Audience: C-suite, CIO/CMIO, CTO, CFO

• Addressing Oregon's Healthcare Crisis – The Archimedes Movement
• Understanding the Landscape of Healthcare IT Funding Sources
• Building the EHR Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Model
• Top Ten Business Issues in IT Contracts
• Change Management Case Study

Topic: Clinical Informatics

Audience: HIT Professionals, Clinicians, Informatics Professionals

• Improving Productivity and Patient Flow with an ED EMR
• Under a Watchful Eye: Detecting At-Risk Patients and Bioterrorism
• Medication Reconciliation: The Challenges and Strategies of the Effective Handoff
• Reports: A Critical Task for Implementation, the Importance of Reports for Supporting Implementation and Improvements in Healthcare
• The Impact of HIT on the Role of Nurses and Interdisciplinary Communication – Preliminary Results of a National Survey
• A Measurable Difference: Clinical Decision Support Improves Care & Safety
• RHIO Webinar: SEMHIE: Evolution of an HIE in a Complex Urban Market

Topic: eHealth Implementation

Audience: Clinical and IT Leadership

• A Multidisciplinary IT Implementation of Medication Reconciliation across an Enterprise
• Evolution of an HIE in a Complex Urban Market
• Healthcare IT Trends
• Patients vs. Technology: Implementing Patient-Centered Initiatives
• Development of Team Competence for Practicing Hospital IT Projects

Topic: Electronic Health Record (EHR, EMR, PHR)

Audience: Clinical and IT Professionals

• Enterprise Integration Strategies toward the Image-Enabled HER
• EMR Implementation in the Ambulatory Setting
• Implementing an Effective Health-Screening and Personal Health Records System
• Strategies for Successful EHR Implementation
• The Human Factor: Improving EMR Workflows
• New Clinical Uses for EMRs: Data Mining for Improved Quality
• A Mutual Relationship: Workflow Management Systems, Meet Healthcare
• The New SSA & Electronic Records Express
• The PHR
• The Nicholas Davies Award Panel – The HER
• The Shenzhen Regional Health Information network: A Progress Report

Topic: Innovation and Emerging Technologies

Audience: Clinical and IT Professionals

• Digital Ward – Innovating for the Hospital of the Future
• Wireless Patient Tracking – A Technology Blueprint
• Systematic Population CVD Screening: Results of 5,000 Patients Screened
• The Future of Care Delivery: IT-Driven, Molecular Medicine
• Evaluating RFID Tracking Technologies: Improved Communication, Coordination, & Workflow

Topic: Interoperability, Standards, and Health Data Exchange

Audience: Clinical and IT Professionals

• Standards Harmonization – HITSP's First Work Products
• Achieving Interoperability through the Implementation of Standards
• Development of a Nursing Record System Based on Situational Variables
• Leveraging IHE for Interoperability in the Enterprise
• The Framework for Successful HIE Efforts

Topic: IT Integration and Infrastructure

Audience: C-Suite, Clinical, and IT Leadership

• Realizing the Vision of a New Women's Hospital through Technology Innovation
• Effectiveness of Portals in Healthcare Organization/Portlet Architecture
• OR of the Future
• System-Wide Interoperability: Can Single-Vendor and Best-of-Breed Approaches Co-Exist? Sponsored by CareFx
• The Journey of the Evolving Disaster Recovery Environment

Topic: Leadership and Communication

Audience: C-Suite, Clinical and IT Leadership

• The Role of Ethics in Healthcare IT
• Education is the Key to Success

Topic: Patient Safety and Quality

• Top Ten Ways You Can Improve Quality at Your Institution
• IT at the Core of Transformation
• Challenges in Establishing Clinical Databases for Quality Improvement and Audit
• Nursing Informatics Quarterly: Bar-Coding and Medication Safety
• A Community Hospital’s Journey to Medication Safety and Automation
• Improving Medication Safety: The Automated Adverse Drug Event Surveillance System

Topic: Pay for Performance

• It’s in the Numbers: Using Data and Systems for Improved Practice Results
• The Role of HIT in Pay for Performance Programs
• Quality Improvement, Pay-for-Performance, and Information Technology

Topic: Process Improvement

Audience: C-Suite, Clinical, and IT Leadership

• The Complete EMR: Leveraging Informed Consent Capability
• A Framework for Developing and Implementing Point-of-Care System

Topic: Policy, IT, and Clinical Leadership

• Federal Public Policy vs. the CIO
• Stark II: Navigating through Safe Harbors in the Enterprise Setting

Topic: Privacy and Security

• Protecting Patient Privacy with Personal Accountability