Interoperability Healthcare & Data

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of foundational concepts and ideas related to healthcare interoperability. It also covers foundational aspects of healthcare data standardization and its relationship to data architecture, meaningful use, electronic health records (EHR), security, privacy, and most common clinical vocabularies. Students will learn about the dynamics associated with national health standards and the Office of the National Health Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in supporting standardization and interoperability in the United States. Students will learn the approaches, methods, tools, and concepts utilized in care processes, research, quality improvement, and adoption of evidenced processes in ensuring interoperability in health services research, analysis, presentation, and interpretation of findings.