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The Health IT Workforce Curriculum was developed for U.S. community colleges to enhance workforce training programmes in health information technology. The curriculum consist of 20 courses of 3 credits each. Each course includes instructor manuals, learning objectives, syllabi, video lectures with accompanying transcripts and slides, exercises, and assessments. The materials were authored by Columbia University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Oregon Health & Science University, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. The project was funded by the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. All of the course materials are available under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike (CC BY NC SA) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). The course description, learning objectives, author information, and other details may be found athttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewPortfolio.htm?id=842513. The full collection may also be accessed at http://knowledge.amia.org/onc-ntdc.

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08 - Installation and Maintenance of Health IT Systems - Sunny Happy Care Family Practice

The Health IT Workforce Curriculum was developed for U.S. community colleges to enhance workforce training programmes in health information technology. The curriculum consist of 20 courses of 3 credits each. Each course includes instructor manuals, learning objectives, syllabi, video lectures with accompanying transcripts and slides, exercises, and assessments. The materials were authored by Columbia University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Oregon Health & Science University, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. The project was funded by the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. All of the course materials are available under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike (CC BY NC SA) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). The course description, learning objectives, author information, and other details may be found athttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewPortfolio.htm?id=842513. The full collection may also be accessed at http://knowledge.amia.org/onc-ntdc.

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Installation and Maintenance of Health

IT Systems
Sunny Happy Care
Family Practice
This material (Comp8_Sunny Happy Care Family Practice) was developed by Duke University, funded by the Department of
Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number
IU24OC000024.
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Health IT Workforce Curriculum
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Installation and Maintenance of Health IT System
Sunny Happy Care Family Practice
SHC Family Practice
Located in Boca-Raton
Nine Employees
Two Full-time Physicians
Two NPs
Two Nurses
Three Office Staff

Logo by Scott Neal. Used with Permission.

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Why an EHR?

Currently using paper records
Improved workplace efficiency
Cost Savings
Threat of penalties for not transitioning

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What are they looking for?

Cost savings by
increasing productivity
Qualify for governmental
financial incentives
User-friendliness

Photo by Scott Neal
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What are they looking for?

E-prescribing, including electronic management of
refill requests
Result viewing and tracking, including images (i.e.
PACS)
E-documentation
Quality reporting (e.g. "How many of my diabetic
patients are at their target hemoglobin A1c and
blood pressure?")

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What are they looking for?

Possibly a new PMS

If a new PMS system is chosen, they would want
enhancements to:
scheduling of appointments
billing

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Sunny Happy Care Family Practice
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(Neal, 2012)
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Important
Notes and Constraints
SHC is a busy place!

Project completion outset approximately 12 -14
months

Integrate old paper records

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Summary
Smaller practices have different needs than their
larger counterparts.

Some differences would include financing,
workflow, specialized EHR needs

Sunny Happy Care represents a typical
community clinic.
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References:
References were not used for this presentation.



Images
Slide 2: SHC Logo. Image courtesy of Scott Neal.
Slide 4: Stethoscope. Image courtesy of Scott Neal.
Slide 7: SHC Floor plan. Image courtesy of Scott Neal.
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Reference

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