Course description

Course lay-out

The contents of this course are based on the book 'Strategic Information Management in Hospitals: An Introduction to Hospital Information Systems' supplemented with literature and structured as followed:

• Basic concepts: information systems and its components, hospital information systems, information management in hospitals.
• Hospital information systems: hospital functions, modelling of hospital information systems (meta-models), 3LGM (Three Level Graph Model), information processing tools in hospitals, archtectures of hospital information systems, integration within hospital information systems.
• Quality of hospital information systems: quality of data, information processing tools & architecture, quality of information processes, quality of information management.
• Strategic management of hospital information systems: strategic, operational & tactical management, organisational structures of information management, strategic planning, monitoring & adjusting of hospital information systems.

 

Educational goals

The aim of this course to provide insight into:

• the importance of hospital information systems
• methods for describing hospital information systems
• methods for evaluate hospital information systems
• methods for strategic management of hospital information systems

Furthermore the student has the opportunity to apply their acquired knowledge in practice and gain international experience by seeing how other European nations manage their hospital information systems, exchanging knowledge and experiences with other students & experts in this area.

 

Involved departments

• Clinical Informatics
• Several Departments

 

Evaluation

Evaluation of the course and assignments

This course has been fitted in one month; it would be better to get two weeks from the previous course to reduce the workload of this course. However I learned a lot and I could train a lot of academic skills during this course. Mapping an entire department was very interesting even so the comparison with other universities.

 

These comparisons could be made during the international internship; together with German and Austrian students comparisons were made and presented to the entire group. My English communication skills were improved during this internship and the assignment was very informative. Also a quality analysis of the department had to be conducted.

 

The quality analysis had to be done with regard to the 3LGM model. You had to determine which questions could be answered with regard to this model, some questions required a somewhat different approach and were therefore not answerable. You have to think thoroughly which model you use in the first place and what kind of questions you would like to answer. The course was a good finale to finish the Bachelor Medical Informatics.