9/7/2019 Course: HI 201 Health Informatics

HI 201 Health Informatics 

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Welcome to HI 201
The course will be a mix of face-to-face sessions and online activities. Assignments will be given weekly and are expected to be uploaded every
Friday for checking. These assignments will be used to assess project-based learning, the learning strategy for this course. Each assignment is
meant to answer a driving question. The driving question should guide you in studying the material for the week.

Grading

Attendance 15%
Online participation 10%
Academic honesty 10%
Assignments 50%
Final pitch 15%

For this course, students are expected to have a student blog (for assignments), open a Twitter account (if you don't have one already) and to
join the Facebook groups of the Philippine Medical Informatics Society (PMIS) and the UP MSHI.

Every Friday, upload your assignment here then document it in a blog post. Post a link to the blog post in the PMIS FB group. Tweet a link to
your blog post to me @endocrine_witch. Don't forget to use the hashtags #MSHI and #HI201.

There will be no final exam for this course. Instead, you will pitch a health informatics-related solution to a problem you identify in the
Philippine healthcare system.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Summarize key attributes and problems of the Philippine healthcare system.

2. Demonstrate how health informatics can potentially solve some of these problems.
3. Discuss the Philippines' national ehealth strategy.
4. Explain key health data and interoperability standards.
5. Examine real-world challenges in the field of health informatics.
6. Appreciate how big data and analytics may transform healthcare.

Announcements

5 August - 11 August
Dr. Iris Thiele Isip Tan is in charge of this course. You can learn more about her here.

This course will use several strategies for learning and teaching: blended learning, project-based learning, the flipped classroom and
sketchnoting. Don’t worry! Below are resources I have curated for you, to better understand these strategies.
URLs: 2 Page: 1 Assignment: 1
Progress: 4 / 4

12 August - 18 August
I will be on leave this week (it's my birthday week!) Tweet me for any questions. Good luck with your first assignment, due 16 Aug 2019.

Week 1: What is health informatics?

1. Read the following:

a. Kulikowski CA et al. AMIA Board white paper: definition of biomedical informatics and specification of core competencies for graduate
education in the discipline. JAMIA 2012;19(6):931-938.
b. AMIA slide deck. Biomedical Informatics.

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2. Create a mind map of how you understood biomedical informatics based on the readings. Situate your own topics of interest (why you
enrolled in a masters program for health informatics) within a domain or domains of biomedical informatics as defined by the AMIA.

Assignment: 1 Files: 3
Progress: 4 / 4

19 August - 25 August
Be ready to share your mind map in class!

Aldren Gonzales will be team teaching remotely with me. He is a graduate of the MSHI program and currently taking a fellowship in public health
informatics at the CDC.

Week 2: Why is DIKW (data-information-knowledge-wisdom) important in healthcare?

1. Read Wyatt JC & Sullivan F. What is health information? BMJ 2005; 331(7516):566-8.

2. Learn how to make data flow diagrams. A handout is provided below.

3. Pick one service in the PGH Citizen Charter and create a data flow diagram. This assignment is due on 23 August 2019.

Assignment: 1 Files: 3
Progress: 4 / 4

26 August - 1 September
Be ready to share your data flow diagram in class.

Week 3: What are the current challenges to health informatics in developing countries?

1. Read Luna D et al. Health informatics in developing countries: going beyond pilot practices to sustainable implementations: a review of the
current challenges. Healthc Inform Res. 2014 Jan; 20(1): 3–10.

2. Luna et al identified six challenges to health informatics in developing countries. Gather information on the current status of these challenges
in the Philippines. Create an infographic to illustrate what you find. This assignment is due on 30 August 2019.

Assignment: 1 File: 1
Progress: 2 / 2

2 September - 8 September
Be ready to share your infographic in class.

Week 4: How can health information systems in the Philippines be harmonized?

1. Read the following:

a. Harmonize and strengthen health information systems. Health Policy Notes 2008.
b. Marcelo AB & Canero JM. Health information systems. Acta Medica Philippina 2010;44(4):25-29.

2. The reading materials describe the fragmentation of health information systems in the Philippines. Create a sketchnote to illustrate your plan of
action in harmonizing these health information systems. This assignment is due 6 Sept 2019.

Assignment: 1 Files: 2 URL: 1

Progress: 4 / 4

9 September - 15 September
Be ready to share your sketchnote in class.

Week 5: How has the Philippine national health information system evolved in the context of its eHealth strategy?

1. Read the following:

a. Vital Wave Consulting (2009). Health Information Systems in Developing Countries: A Landscape Analysis.
Executive Summary pp.5-10
Landscape Overview pp.15-30
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b. Marcelo AB & Marcelo PF. eHealth Governance in the Philippines: State-of-the-Art. J Int Soc Telemed eHealth 2016;4:e23.

2. At what stage is the Philippine national HIS at the moment? Are we still at Stage 1? How did we get to that stage? Create a sketchnote to
answer the driving question. This assignment is due on 13 Sept 2019.

Assignment: 1 Files: 2
Progress: 3 / 3

16 September - 22 September
Be ready to share your sketchnote in class.

Week 6: Why is governance important in complex health information systems?

1. You may have noticed that COBIT was specified in our national eHealth strategy. It is time to know more about COBIT. View/read the following:
a. COBIT 5 playlist (14 videos, don't worry they're short!) by orbussoftwareTV
b. COBIT 5. An Introduction.

2. Let's say that the Philippine General Hospital Department of Medicine is planning to implement an electronic medical record. Take a look at
slide 35 in the COBIT 5 pdf. Who takes care of what? Fill up the boxes for the 37 processes. Who will be RACI (Responsible, Accountable,
Consulted, Informed) for each of these processes? The PGH organizational chart may be of help. In the Department of Medicine, each
subspecialty has a Division with its own Division Chief. This assignment is due on 20 Sept 2019.

Assignment: 1 URL: 1 Files: 2

Progress: 4 / 4

23 September - 29 September
Be ready to show your COBIT RACI matrix in class.

Enterprise Architecture

1. Read the following to understand enterprise architecture:

a. Sajid M & Ahsan K. Role of Enterprise Architecture in Healthcare Organizations and Knowledge-based medical diagnosis system. JISTEM
2016;13(2):181-192.
b. Ahsan K et al. Healthcare Modelling through Enterprise Architecture: a Hospital Case. DOI: 10.1109/ITNG.2010.190

Page: 1
Progress: 1 / 1

30 September - 6 October
Be ready to present

Week 8: What are the preliminary steps in shifting from a paper-based medical record to an electronic health record? 

1. Read Chap 1-2 of Electronic Health Records: A Manual for Developing Countries by the World Health Organization.

2. Look for an outpatient clinic or department in a hospital that does not have an electronic health record yet. Carry out the suggested steps in
Chapter 2. Prepare a slide deck (no more than 10 slides) to present your findings. This assignment is due on 27 Sept 2019.

File: 1
Progress: 1 / 1

7 October - 13 October

14 October - 20 October

21 October - 27 October

28 October - 3 November
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4 November - 10 November

11 November - 17 November

18 November - 24 November
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