The Clinical Informatics program within the University of Maryland School of Graduate Studies invites the public to its monthly conference sessions as part of the school’s Clinical Informatics Conference course.
The next free virtual conference session will take place on Thursday, April 2, from noon to 2 p.m. ET. The topic for the April session is Health Information Systems. Attendees can join using Zoom.
At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to:
- Describe techniques for the selection, development, evaluation, and operation of clinical information systems (CIS).
- List key features of effective governance for clinical information systems.
- Develop a checklist of pros and cons of various governance structures for implementation of CIS.
- Be aware of world-wide differences in approach to CIS governance.
The speaker, David Kaelber MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, is a practicing internist and pediatrician, board-certified in clinical informatics, and the chief health informatics officer of the MetroHealth System and professor of internal medicine, pediatrics, and population and quantitative health sciences at Case Western Reserve University, the public health care system for Cleveland.
Readings for the first hour:
- Smith, S. W., & Koppel, R. (2014). Healthcare information technology’s relativity problems: a typology of how patients’ physical reality, clinicians’ mental models, and healthcare information technology differ. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 21(1), 117–131. https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001419
- Huang, C., Koppel, R., McGreevey, J. D., Craven, C. K., & Schreiber, R. (2020). Transitions from One Electronic Health Record to Another: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Recommendations. Applied Clinical Informatics, 11(5), 742–754. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1718535
Readings for the second hour:
- A HIMSS book from 2012 on the subject: IT Governance in Hospitals and Health Systems (HIMSS Book Series): 9780984457786: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com, pages xv - xviii, and pages 1-2
- A framework for health information governance: a scoping review | Health Research Policy and Systems | Full Text also available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-024-01193-9
The INFO 610: Clinical Informatics Conference course is a monthly conference in biomedical and health informatics. Students are introduced to experts in the field of biomedical informatics, exposing them to key experimental and theoretical literature in the discipline, and encouraging discussion and further in-depth exploration of topics in clinical informatics.
The course emphasizes the application of informatics to the practice of medicine, to enhance health outcomes, improve patient care, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. The course expands on fundamental clinical informatics content, including clinical decision making, process improvement, health information systems, ethics, and management.
While attendees who are not enrolled in the course do not receive course credit, these conference sessions that focus on biomedical and health informatics are open to the public.