Introduction to the US Healthcare System, Data, and Interoperability

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In a modern healthcare system, exchange of clinical data across multiple stakeholders - between healthcare organizations, between providers and patients, and among agencies and governmental entities - is pivotal. Health information standards provide the backbone to achieve uniform data interoperability and exchange across multiple heterogeneous systems. This course will introduce various existing and emerging clinical data modeling, terminology and knowledge representation standards that are part of Meaningful Use Regulations, and discuss scenarios and use cases where the standards have been applied for routine clinical practice and research. Through lectures, case studies, midterm, and a final project, students will gain insights into topics such as disease classification systems, health information exchanges, and electronic health records (EHR) interoperability. (MHA-EL)