COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIF 5033 ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Medical Informatics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OĞUZ DICLE

Offered to

Medical Informatics

Course Objective

Nowadays it has been started to record all the health and disease records in electronic environment. This area that required typical information management is the main topic of the medical informatics. It will be possible to gain a multidirectional knowledge and ability regarding the topic that has multidisciplinary dimensions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   define basic concepts of the patient records.
2   define concepts of the hospital information systems.
3   use the software applications of the hospital information systems.
4   use the e-health applications.
5   the problems of the electronic health records.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, areas that required health records
2 Prenatal health records, birth records, vaccination records
3 Out-patient records
4 In-patient records
5 Health records from past to present
6 Standards
7 Tools
8 Hospital Information Systems
9 Software
10 Coding systems, archiving electronic health records
11 Integration
12 Smart cards
13 E-health applications
14 Patient health records in emergency situations
15 Electronic health records: problems

Recomended or Required Reading

(1) Gunter, T.D. and Terry, N.P. 2005 The Emergence of National Electronic Health Record Architectures in the United States and Australia: Models, Costs, and Questions in J Med Internet Res 7(1)
(2) Habib JL. EHRs, meaningful use, and a model EMR. Drug Benefit Trends. May 2010;22(4):99-101.
(3) Berg, M. 1997. Of Forms, Containers, and the Electronic Medical Record: Some Tools for a Sociology of the Formal. Science, Technology, & Human Values 22(4):403 33
(4) http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/340/jun16_4/c3111 Greenhalgh T, Stramer K, Bratan T, Byrne E, Russell J, Potts HWW (2010). Adoption and non-adoption of a shared electronic summary care record in England: A mixed-method case study. BMJ, 340, c311
(5) Himmelstein DU, Wright A, Woolhandler S (2009). Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study. American Journal of Medicine, doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation/lecturing and interactive discussion.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRF PERFORMANCE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 +PRF * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 +PRF * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Homeworks, Performance, Mid-term and Final exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is an essential requirement of this course and is the responsibility of the student. Students are expected to attend all lecture and recitation hours. Attendance must be at least 70% for the lectures.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül University, The Institute of Health Science, Department of Medical Informatics
e-mail: oguz.dicle@deu.edu.tr
Tel: 0232 412 59 01

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 2 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 22 22
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 127

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.155
LO.2454
LO.345555
LO.454445
LO.555555545