HST.184 – Spring 2011
| HST. 184 HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF CARE IN RESOURCE POOR SETTINGS |
This course is now archived on MIT OpenCourseWare: HST.184 |
| View the course page to see the syllabus and readings.A recent article in Health Affairs looks at studies on eHealth effectiveness between July 2007 – Feburary 2010 and finds that 92% had positive conclusions about eHealth’s overall effect. |
| CLASS 1: HEALTH CARE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD |
| Lecturer: Joia Mukherjee, Medical Director, Partners in HealthObjective: Provide an overview of the medical illnesses, the status of health care, and common human resource limitations in developing countries. Understand health inequities and the social determinants of healthLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 2: HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN RESOURCE-POOR ENVIRONMENTS |
| Lecturer: Hamish Fraser, Director of Informatics and Telemedicine, Partners in HealthObjective: To provide a background on health information systems that have been implemented in developing countries and the evidence on their impactLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 3: OVERVIEW OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT |
| Lecturer: Leo Celi, Project Lead, SanaObjective: Assess the scope of current problems with the quality in health care and establish definitions and framework for thinking about quality of careLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 4: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT AT THE FRONT LINES |
| Lecturer: Martin Were, Assistant Professor of Medicine, and Knowledge Informatics & Translation, Indiana UniversityObjective: To evaluate the performance of operating units, understand why they perform as they do, and design new or improved operating procedures and systemsLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 5: PROCESS IMPROVEMENT THEORY AND APPLICATION |
| Lecturer: Brandon Bennett, Institute for Healthcare ImprovementObjective: Understand the methods used for improving process qualityLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 6: GOAL DIRECTED RESEARCH FOR EFFECTIVE HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS |
| Lecturer: Evan PankeyObjective: Learn to frame the research problems; learn where good ideas come from; and how to synthesize solutionsLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 7: INNOVATION AND ADOPTION OF NEW PRACTICES |
| Lecturer: Jonathan Jackson, Founder and CEO, DimagiObjective: Examine principles of innovation and the adoption of new practices that can guide the design of successful quality improvement projectsLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 8: CHECKLISTS |
| Lecturer: Alvin Kwok, Surgeon, WHO Safe Surgery Saves Lives InitiativePriya Agrawal, Obstetrician, WHO Making Pregnancy Safer InitiativeObjective: To understand how checklists improve safety and how they are used; to recognize some of the similarities and differences in improving quality of care in different settingsLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 9: EVALUATING PROCESS AND OUTCOME METRICS |
| Lecturer: Lisa Hirschhorn, MD MPH,Associate Director of International Monitoring and Evaluation, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School,Senior Clinical Advisor, HIV/AIDS, JSI Research and Training InstituteObjective: Learn how to design a measurement approach to systematically measure dimensions of quality in clinical care systemsLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 10: EVALUATING PROCESS AND OUTCOME METRICS |
| Lecturer: Pedro DelgadoObjective: Learn how to design an evaluation study with appropriate clinical and economic outcomesLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 11: ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE – POSITIVE DEVIANCE |
| Lecturer: Jessica Haberer, Research Scientist, Harvard Initiative for Global HealthObjective: Understand how to design and lead systems changes to achieve quality improvement within a heath-care organizationLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 12: VALUE-CHAIN ANALYSIS IN HEALTHCARE |
| Lecturer: Anjali Sastry, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management – http://globalhealth.mit.eduObjective: Learn how to perform value chain analysis in health care and discuss ways it has been applied in developing countries |
| CLASS 13: ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE – LEAN SIGMA |
| Lecturer: Andrew Kanter, Director of Health Information Systems/Medical Informatics, Millennium Villages ProjectObjective: Discuss the application of management models drawn from production industries to health-care deliveryLECTURE SLIDES |
| CLASS 14: COLLABORATIVE CHANGE AND WRAP-UP |
| Lecturer: Chaitali Sinha, Program Officer, International Development Research CentreObjective: Discuss the model of inter-organizational learning as an approach to quality improvement |
| CLASS PHOTO |
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| STUDENT PROJECTS |
| In small groups the students wrote reports about one area of HIS for quality improvement in resource poor settings.
Impact of US Federal Funding on eHealth |