Component 7; Unit 11: Health IT in the Future
Description:
Unit 11 will focus upon future directions for HIT. New areas of research and development in HIT will be examined. Students will gain a foundational understanding of these area
Objectives:
- Speculate the relationship between HIT and health reform
- Suggest alternative design for usable & supportive HIT
- Hypothesize how HIT may intersect with publicly available data to improve health (i.e. point of sale, weather, GIS, foods, etc)
- Predict avenues of future innovations in HIT
Component 7; Unit 11; Lecture 11 comp7_unit11_lecture_slides
Alternative Design and the Future of Health IT (28:30): 1) U.S. Healthcare Reform; 2) Alternative Designs for HIT; 3) “Infodemiology” and Data Mining