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Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics

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University of Minnesota

Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics

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Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics is a graduate-level, hands-on interactive exploration of real informatics tools and techniques offered by the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota's National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. We will be incorporating technology-enabled educational innovations to bring the subject matter to life. Over the 10 modules, we will create a vital online learning community and a working healthcare informatics network. We will explore perspectives of clinicians like dentists, physical therapists, nurses, and physicians in all sorts of practice settings worldwide. Emerging technologies, telehealth, gaming, simulations, and eScience are just some of the topics that we will consider. Throughout the course, we’ll focus on creativity, controversy, and collaboration - as we collectively imagine and create the future within the rapidly evolving healthcare informatics milieu. All healthcare professionals and IT geeks are welcome!

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Data Exchange and Interoperability

This module explores interprofessional aspects of healthcare data exchange and interoperability. By the end of this module, learners will be able to: describe information exchange and interoperability and analyze interprofessional aspects of information exchange and interoperability in healthcare.

Health Information Exchange 4:36

Meet the Instructors

Karen Monsen, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing

Health information exchange and interoperability.

The reference for this presentation unless otherwise noted is Chapter 5 of

the optional Hoyt text. We will consider these key points,

interoperability and exchange, vision and progress, and interprofessional

opportunity. Key point one, interoperability and

exchange. Health information exchange is defined as

the ability of two or more system or components to exchange information.

And to use the information that has been exchanged.

Health information exchange is a vital part of modernizing our health care

system. As informatisists, we know that exchange

is only part of the challenge. To ensure the information that has been

exchanged can be used it is essential to use semantic tools that provide

definitions, and thus support information operability.

Key point two, vision and progress. Toward the vision of advancing health

information and exchange and operating ability.

The US governement has funded projects in 17 selected communities throughout the

United States. These 17 communities have established

track records of secure, private and accurate systems of EHR adoption and

health information exchange. The project's focus on building and

strengthening the health IT infrastructure and exchange capabilities

within these communities. In the Beacon Community Program, each

project starts with community outcomes. With very specific goals not for a

hospital, or for a clinic, but for an entire community.

The community decides how to apply information technology in order to

achieve the desired outcomes. What are beacon communities doing?

Here in Minnesota, we're engaging care delivery partners and testing new models

for community wide health information exchange capability.

Daniel Jensen, Associate Director of Olmsted County Public Health provides an

overview of the public health work being done in southeast Minnesota to build and

expand health information exchange. Some of these projects include a school

nurse portal, a public health nursing portal.

A clinical data repository, case manager notification at the point of clinical

hospital admission or ED visit, ED in-reach social worker case finding, and

medication reconciliation. Explore a Beacon Community Program near

you, or provide another health information exchanging interoperability

example. Consider the interprofessional and

population health aspects of the exchange and comment on them in this week's

discussion. Compare your example to another.

What themes emerge? Key point three, interprofessional

opportunity. Well, few examples are fully functional.

The Beacon Community Program demonstrates the disparate services can be integrated

in health information exchange models. To achieve meaningful, inter-professional

health information exchange, data standards are critical.

As informaticists, we know that terminology standards can enable

meaningful information exchange across professions.

Achieving a professional interoperability will require shared terminology standards

across professions. Health information exchange is a vital

part of modernizing our healthcare system.

But health information exchange is not the same as health information

interoperability. Both components are essential to the

success of any health information exchange and interoperability project.

In this presentation, we considered three key points interoperability and exchange,

vision and progress, and interprofessional opportunity.

These key points are fundamental for advancing the notion of interprofessional

health information interoperability.

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