Textbook

Required textbook - Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use by Trotter & Uhlman

• Amazon Prime: http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Healthcare-Standards-Workflows-Meaningful/dp/1449305024

Recommended Textbook - Contemporary Health Informatics by Braunstein

• Amazon Prime: http://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Health-Informatics-Mark-Braunstein/dp/1584260319/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422070018&sr=1-1&keywords=Contemporary+Health+Informatics+braunstein

Downloadable Syllabus

Please download here

Readings (** = highly recommended)

Session 1: Overview/Context (Deborah Estrin, Dan Stein)

• **From Hacking Healthcare: Chapters 1, 13 (for Open MRS assignment)
• From Contemporary Health Informatics: Chapter 1

Session 2: Clinical Workflow Systems (Curtis Cole, MD)

• **From Hacking Healthcare: Chapters 1,9
• From Contemporary Health Informatics: Chapter 6
• Supplementary: Cole et al chapter from Ong Textbook: Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer (this is a draft version of the chapter not yet published - please do not distribute)

Session 3: Public Health: Syndromic Surveillance (Nathaniel Hupert, MD, MPh)

• TBD

Session 4: Insurance/Billing

• **From Hacking Healthcare: Chapter 3
• Pre-read slides from Speaker: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B95qRB7QY9u5TFJRWGYyWl9oV00/view?usp=sharing

Session 5: Instrumented Patients/Implantable Medical Devices

• **From Hacking Healthcare: Chapter 6
• The recently updated FDA page that contains guidance for mobile medical applications

Session 6: Pharma/Imaging

Session 7: Inpatient Technologies/Care Transitions

• ** From Hacking Healthcare: Chapter 2

Session 8: Health Information Exchange

• ** From Hacking Healthcare: Chapter 11
• From Hacking Healthcare: Chapter 10

Data Sets

• For session 8: CCD Example Files

Case Studies

• Geisinger Health - (1) (2) (3)