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OER Passport Training Program

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OER Passport is a professional development program that takes educators through the process of understanding, finding, developing and sharing Open Educational Resources. This course trains teachers and students on OER use, reuse, licensing, creation, and sharing by completing the following tasks. The first three tasks lay a solid foundation and provide teachers with the tools to complete the last three tasks which focus on the use, reuse, production, and innovative teaching practices. Participants can complete the tasks online. There are also files to print/create physical copies of OER Passports that can be used in an offline environment.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Jenni Hayman

LIMSWiki

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LIMSwiki is a collaborative wiki dedicated to the scientific community, featuring organized, documented, and up-to-date content regarding all aspects of laboratory informatics, bioinformatics, and health informatics. LIMSwiki also strives to maintain relevant knowledge about laboratory equipment as well as commercial and open-source software likely to be used in a laboratory setting. This also includes the vendors of such equipment and software.

Material Type: Reading

BASIC TOOLS FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTH CARE INFORMATICS

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This textbook introduces students to the essential tools of quality improvement. The emphasis is placed on health care informatics, as reflected in the several examples contained in the text. The book is written to be accessible to any student in the areas of health information management, health care informatics, and health care industrial engineering. Although having some statistical background would be a plus, such knowledge is not a prerequisite to understanding and applying the tools presented here.  Several How-To sections are included to demonstrate the hands-on implementation of the discussed concepts using software such as Minitab, Visio, and Excel.

Material Type: Lecture Notes, Textbook

Author: Jerome Niyirora

APPLICATIONS OF CONTROL CHARTS FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTH CARE

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This textbook introduces students to the application methods of control charts to improve quality in health care. The textbook is written to be accessible to any student in the areas of health information management, health care informatics, and health care industrial engineering. Having a basic background in statistics would be beneficial, but such training is not a prerequisite to understanding how to apply the techniques discussed here.  Several How-To sections are included to demonstrate the implementation of the given control charts using software such as Minitab and Excel.  Additionally, samples of a Python code are included and can directly be accessed in a Jupyter Notebook at https://github.com/JeromeNN/Applications-Control-Charts-Quality-Improvement-Health-Care 

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Jerome Niyirora

FHIR Fundamentals

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This course provides a comprehensive review of interoperability, health data standards, and other advanced topics including Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies (SMART) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR), also known as SMART-on-FHIR applications and Accelerator projects. This course will use Interoperability Land™ to provide learners with a hands-on experience using FHIR resources. Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to: explain interoperability and use cases; locate information within JSON and XML files; Create queries in IOL; understand SMART application authorization. Interoperability Land can be purchased on AWS Marketplace at the followinglink: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-f34r2uj3naohe For information regarding education pricing please email contactus@interoperabilityinstitute.org.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Full Course, Lesson Plan, Reading, Student Guide

Author: Interoperability Institute