McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics Continuing Nursing Education

Intro to Informatics for Nurses

The goal of this course is to deliver an enhanced understanding of population health management, care coordination, data analytics, value-based purchasing, and patient-centered care; as well as provide hands-on experience with data analysis and associated skills.

Price: $150
Hours: 13 CE Contact Hours

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the definitions and perspectives related to population health, and provide an overview of the potential health IT applications in population health.
2. Identify various data sources used for population health management including both traditional and non-traditional data sources, and examine how data quality affects population health analytics.
3. Describe key elements for transforming to team-based care, identify types of team-based interventions, and implement multi-disciplinary care planning.
4. Summarize federal policy to protect health information for care coordination, discuss challenges related to policy implementation, and provide examples of tools and techniques for evaluation of compliance.
5. Relate the importance and describe the concept of patient-driven care coordination and list ways that technology can be used to drive care decisions.
6. Discuss key concepts associated with value-based care and the role of health IT in value-based care.
7. Discuss a variety of new care delivery models for value-based care.
8. Define patient-centered care coordination, discuss best practice tools and emerging models for care coordination, distinguish care coordination roles and responsibilities, and identify stakeholders.
9. Describe different types of data generated in health care.
10. Practice data analysis skills.
11. Communicate data analysis results.
12. Examine data and the presentation of data related to the patient experience, especially patient satisfaction and patient-reported outcomes.

Refund/Cancellation Policy

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If the criteria specified above is met, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics will refund only up to 50% of the enrollment price due to refund processing fees. McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics will only review refund requests from currently enrolled individuals. Individuals asking for refunds whose enrollments have passed will be dismissed.

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