Location
Please check the individual session for location or broadcast availability.
Frequency
Bimonthly
Series Director
Ila Singh, MD, PhD
Target Audience and Needs
Attending physicians, residents, fellows, nurses, graduate students, medical students, analysts and programmers need to be regularly updated on the role of informatics in health care, the current approaches to utilize large sets of data in health care and appropriate measures to draw effective conclusions from this data. The series aims to increase knowledge of the learners in these topic areas, and to develop better means to put data to effective use in order to enhance the quality of health care and outcomes.
Educational Methods
Educational methods will include lectures.
Objectives
At the conclusion of the sessions, the participants should be able to:
- Identify the need for informatics in healthcare.
- Demonstrate current approaches to utilize large sets of healthcare data.
- Develop better strategies to analyze data and measure effectiveness in the health care setting.
- Utilize approaches to draw effective conclusions, clinical outcomes and predictive analytics from data.
- Implement clinical informatics to address quality issues, usability and safety of clinical information systems, and large data sets to predict clinical outcomes.
Evaluation
Participants may be asked to complete a session evaluation.
Accreditation/Credit Designation
Baylor College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Baylor College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Series Coordinator
Cynthia Collins, BSACC
cc2@bcm.edu
831-824-1865