Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics. Learning Together. The reference for this presentation, unless otherwise noted, is the Learning Healthcare System. The Institute of Medicine defines a learning healthcare system as a system that learns from data collected at the point of care, and applies the lessons to patient care improvement. In such a system, healthcare professionals are the key to healthcare quality. Assessing the needs, directing the approaches, ensuring the integrity of tracking and quality of the outcomes and leading innovation. IT professionals will make the Learning Healthcare System possible. The Learning Health Care System depends on data, information, knowledge, technology and interprofessional collaboration. It is challenging to create an interprofessional learning environment, due to the many constraints on our time and resources. We have a unique opportunity to learn together in this course because we represent many professions and global perspectives. Take a moment to reflect on your goals for learning about interprofessional health care informatics and how you plan to achieve them. In this presentation, we will consider three key points, opportunities for learning together. Instructor presence and tips from students. Key point one, opportunities for learning together. Our course is designed for collaborative learning. Each module has two segments. Our course, which provides lecture and website content on major informatics topics. And our network, in which we generate health related data from a standardized terminology and use the data to glean meaning about interprofessional healthcare practice. All course modules are now available. The course will be open for ten weeks. And the course work may be completed at any time within the ten weeks. Each of the modules poses discussion questions about the topic you have explored. Please take the opportunity to dialogue with others. This is your chance to meet health and IT professionals from all around the world and learn from them. You will see that interprofessional healthcare informatics is a new science that we are co-creating. Our course lectures are designed to engage the learner in thoughtful reflection, active learning and further exploration of relevant material. Discussions build on these activities and challenge you to synthesize and apply what you have learned. You'll get the most out of these opportunities when you participate fully. This will leverage the power of community to support everyone's learning. A recognized educational best practice summed up in the adage, together, we are more. The Our Network segment, consists of a series of surveys and exercises. The surveys are data collection tools that will give you hands on informatic experience generating, analyzing, and interpreting standardized data. The exercises are simple experiments to demonstrate the power of using data to describe population health and healthcare practice. When you participate by analyzing the data or by interpreting a report, you are gaining important experience in using informatics tools and data sets to inform health care decisions. I would like to make a case for including IT professionals in the interprofessional health care informatics conversations. It's particularly important to be together at the design table for electronic health records and other data sharing applications, because everyone needs to understand the strengths, that the others bring to co-creating the interprofessional healthcare informatics world. IT professionals, please imagine that you are in the shoes of a healthcare professional, as you explore this world. The interfaces and reports and codes embedded within the HRs, are the structure of healthcare. And how we design them influences healthcare outcomes. The success of the Learning Healthcare System depends on, mutual understanding of technology, standards, and clinical processes, across disciplines. Our interprofessional global course, is an opportunity for everyone to consider many diverse perspectives, and to gain appreciation for the richness, of our interprofessional healthcare informatics milieu. When we transcend barriers, we can co-create a system that will provide meaningful data to inform health care quality, and improve population health. Key point two: instructor presence. Dr. Adwan and I are pleased to offer this course. Please address us and fellow students respectfully. To facilitate communication, all modules include a discussion form called, ask us and talk amongst yourselves. We will reply at least twice a week to one or more questions in this forum. We encourage you, to post your questions and resources here. Please use this form to answer and assist one another. In addition, there's a forum specifically for technical questions. This forum will be monitored by Coursera. Please sure, be sure to inform Coursera if you are unable to resolve problems. Key point three. Tips from students. Previous interprofessional healthcare informatic students offered some tips for success. First, be active in discussions, at least three times per module. Post your own response to the discussion and reply to others. Second, explore the many resources that are available online. And finally, be curious about the perspectives of others around the world. As we began this presentation, I invited you to reflect on your goals for learning. I now invite you to continue the conversation amongst yourselves. And as you do so, please keep in mind, that together we are co-creating the new future of healthcare, enabled by information and technology. Standardized, networked, and data-rich. Once again, welcome to Interprofessional Health Care and Formatics. Dr. Adwan and I wish you every success.
