Lecturer | محاضر

Address: Medical Education Department | Phone: 0533984159

HI 507- Integration, Interoperability, Standards Class

This course will explore the details of healthcare standards, vocabularies, and clinical terminologies. Throughout the course, we will talk about the benefits of integrating healthcare information systems as well as the challenges of integrating healthcare systems across disparate organizations and technologies.  Students will spend the course learning about HL7, SNOMED CT, CDA, LONIC, CDA, CCR, ICD-10, PACS, and DICOM. Students will have a midterm paper about one of the main topics discussed in the course and a final exam on the last day of the course.

GUEST SPEAKERS:

Eng. Thamer Alenazi
- Senior Programmer Analyst King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
Mr. Traiq Hakeem
- Standards Specialist at Ministry of Health ICT- eHealth Strategy Office
Mr. Hussein Albishi
- Deputy Minister Personal Chancellor for HIM & Clinical Coding since 2010 
Dr. Metab Alkubeyyer
- Consultant body MRI & Imaging Informatics at KKUH 

TEXTBOOK:
- Tim Benson, Principles of Health Interoperability: HL7 and SNOMED, Springer 2009 978-1-84882-802-5.
- Kathy Giannangelo, MA, RHIA, CCS, CPHIMS, Healthcare Code Sets, Clinical Terminologies, and Classification Systems, AHIMA 2010 ISBN: 9781584262251
- Additional reading material may be given throughout the course. 

STUDENT LEARNING GOALS:
At the completion of the Integration, Interoperability, Standards, Clinical Terminologies, and Vocabularies course, students should be able to:

  • Define and describe clinical vocabularies and terminologies used in the organization’s health information systems
  • Understand the benefits of standards-based HIT interoperability
  • Recognize appropriate clinical classification systems as to their uses and sources
  • Apply the classification systems knowledge to healthcare information systems to promote effective and efficient communication for healthcare organizations and patients
  • Demonstrate how to utilize appropriate HIT standards in an integration project
  • Understand the policy issues related to health data exchange 

GRADING: 
Students will be graded based on the following:
           
Participation and attendance                                           20%
Mid Term (Class Paper)                                                   20%
Assignments & presentations                                          20%
Final Exam                                                                      40%
 

 

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