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About the Course

In this course you will receive an overview of the health IT ecosystem with a specific focus on the role of electronic health records (EHRs). You’ll be introduced to the factors that contributed to the move from paper records to digitized records and who the most common vendors are. We’ll go over features of EHRs such as computerized provider order entry, clinical decision support, documentation capabilities, and medication reconciliation. Like a physician’s stethoscope, the EHR has become an important tool in healthcare delivery and plays a part throughout the patient’s journey. You’ll go through each of the steps from patient scheduling, to front desk registration, outpatient visits, emergency room encounters, and inpatient admissions. During the course, we’ll also cover examples of how technical issues related to the EHR can be as simple as problems with logging or password resets. But how they can also be more complex related to alerts that are firing and the display of information. Although some of those challenges are beyond the scope of the IT support staff, having familiarity with the scope of potential problems and the broader EHR landscape is important. This course also includes an introduction to database architecture, servers, and interfaces. We wrap up by discussing the importance of training end-users on healthcare technology and the way in which effective change management strategies are crucial....

Top reviews

MT

Nov 7, 2021

This is a nice course for you to learn Health Information Technology Fundamentals. You can also get an overview of Software Security, Authentication, Databases and customer services.

EF

May 9, 2022

I enjoyed learning about Electronic Health Records. The course was fun, very educational and informative. Instructors did a great job with lectures.

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By Maxwell P

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Sep 19, 2023

An upgrade from the first course, but it's not great.

The makers of this course should take some of the other Coursera courses and see how to make more professional videos.

By Sergio B

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Apr 16, 2023

It is basis info. It will be nice to see new data from 2022-23 and not from 2020

Please. Update with new data

By Shabana Z

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Sep 7, 2024

Not much infrmation provided, very brief lectures

By wondwossen a

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Jun 15, 2021

Good knowledge for starters.

By Vineeth V

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Apr 17, 2021

informative

By Pier P L

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Mar 17, 2023

I appreciated the key concepts but some lectures were hard to make sense of (like the "disappearing patients" thing).

By Neema Y

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Aug 21, 2024

Badly presented. Poor quality. Annoying instructor. Sounds very monotonous and boring.

By M N

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Aug 15, 2024

The video and narration was not in synch. Lots of noise in the narration.

By Omar H S A

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Jul 19, 2025

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