Paper Info
Title
Development and evaluation of an electronic health record configuration and customization laboratory course for clinical informatics students.
Abstract
Objectives: There is a need for informatics educational programs to develop laboratory courses that facilitate hands-on access to an EHR, and allow students to learn and evaluate functionality and configuration options. This is particularly relevant given the diversity of backgrounds of informatics students. Methods: We implemented an EHR laboratory course that allowed students to explore an EHR in both inpatient and outpatient clinical environments. The course focused on specific elements of the EHR including order set development, customization, clinical decision support, ancillary services, and billing and coding functionality. Students were surveyed at the end of the course for their satisfaction with the learning experience. Results and Conclusions: We detailed challenges as well as lessons learned after analyzing student evaluations of this course. Features that promote the successful offering of an online EHR course, include (1) using more than one EHR to allow students to compare functionalities, (2) ensuring appropriate course calibration, (3) countering issues specific to EHR usability, and (4) fostering a fertile environment for rich online conversations are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-1122
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Informatics workforce training,electronic health records,laboratory course,Veterans Administration,VistA
Knowledge management,Public health informatics,Medical record,Health informatics,Medicine,Personalization
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
192
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vishnu Mohan1137.05
William Hersh22491307.00