Course name: Module 2: Electronic Health Records and Data Standards and Exchange
Course description:

This module will define Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Personal Health Records (PHRs) and describe how the use of data standards can facilitate health information exchange. It will also introduce participants to several key topics related to the design and use of EHRs. Participants will learn about the relationship between Data Standards, Clinical Practice Guidelines and Evidence Based Care to Clinical Decision Support Systems.

Learning Hours: 8 hours
Learning objectives:
  1. Compare and contrast electronic medical record (EMR) with electronic health record (EHR).
  2. Describe the emergence of Personal Health Records and their implications for patients, health care providers, and health systems.
  3. Describe the fundamental requirements of an effective Clinical Decision Support System.
  4. Describe how the principles of health care data exchange and health care data standards relate to patient care, productivity and data analysis.
  5. Identify the more common controlled vocabularies in use today: ICD, CPT, NDC, RxNorm, LOINC and SNOMED CT.
Credit hours: 8
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