Health Care Informatics

Catalog description

This course prepares advanced practice nurses as part of interdisciplinary teams to utilize health information technologies and informatics processes to provide care, gather data, and support evidence-based clinical decision making and healthcare management systems management. The course will provide socio-technical models and tools to identify the impact of health information technology on people, processes, and policies and evaluate the intended and unintended consequences on patient safety, workflow processes and healthcare outcomes. The course will explore health information technology innovations and enhancements that support the provisions of healthcare services and clinical practice throughout hospitals, healthcare systems, and communities, including clinical decision support, data repositories, health information exchanges, artificial intelligence, telehealth and mobile health, and continuum of care management and patient engagement. The course will examine approaches to data management and analytics that can be used to evaluate and improve patient care and safety, health care delivery, cost of care, care management, and population health initiatives.