An online course

in applied
clinical
informatics:
Development
and delivery

Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD

Thankam Thyvalikakath, DMD,
etc.

Agenda
online course Introduction to Health
Information Technology in Dentistry
rationale
development
content
delivery

opportunities for the Regenstrief

Institute

Rationale
continual flood of new HIT products,
services and methods in dentistry
dentists, dental hygienists,
assistants: clinicians first
difficult for them to manage practice
IT
dentist = CIO
few people can bridge the gap
between clinic and technology

Development
partially funded by supplemental
NLM curriculum development award
(goal: create online courses)
development time: 3 years
three faculty, two graduate students,
instructional designer, technical
assistant
offered in spring 2013 for the first
time

Content
drew on 20 years of experience
teaching dental students about IT
integrated clinical informatics
competencies
but with a slant to graduate
education

Modules
1. Course introduction and
overview
2. Dental care workflow and
analysis
3. Overview of electronic
dental records
4. Dental data and their
representation
5. Controlled vocabularies,
terminologies and
ontologies
6. User-centered design
methods for EDRs
7. Practical information design
8. Supporting clinical decisionmaking with computers

9. Failures in HIT
10.Planning and implementing
an IT infrastructure in a
dental office
11.Requirements analysis and
technology evaluation
12.Managing human
resources for IT
13.Basics of hardware,
software and networking
14.Privacy, confidentiality,
and security

Delivery

Backup screenshots

Opportunities for RI
the Why?
We do important work.
We are generative and innovative.
Therefore, have important knowledge to
impart.
Because our work is so important, we need to
do more to attract people to our mission.

Online courses, seminars, etc. are one way to

do that.

Opportunities for RI
IU Online initiative (2012-)
faculty resources for course development
course through
academic department
CME/CDE course (?)
platform: Canvas by
http://www.instructure.com/ (replaced
OnCourse)
help on demand:
Center For Teaching And Learning (IUPUI)
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learnin
g

Canvas
http://
www.instructure.com/news/webinars

http://guides.instructure.com

Thank you for your

attention!

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