The Health IT Workforce Curriculum was developed for U.S. community colleges to enhance workforce training programmes in health information technology. The curriculum consist of 20 courses of 3 credits each. Each course includes instructor manuals, learning objectives, syllabi, video lectures with accompanying transcripts and slides, exercises, and assessments. The materials were authored by Columbia University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Oregon Health & Science University, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. The project was funded by the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. All of the course materials are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Component 2 - The Culture of Healthcare Component Overview: For individuals not familiar with healthcare, this component addresses job expectations in healthcare settings. It discusses how care is organized within a practice setting, privacy laws, and professional and ethical issues encountered in the workplace. Unit Title Healthcare Settings – The Places Where Care is Delivered Unit Overview: This unit describes healthcare delivery sites including outpatient care, hospitals, tertiary care centers, academic medical centers, the VA healthcare system, the military health system, the Indian health service, and non-traditional delivery sites such as school-based, community-based, and employer-based sites. It also specifically examines the structure, function and interrelationship between healthcare settings. Unit Objectives: By the end of this unit the student will be able to: 1. Differentiate the range of care delivery organizations, including primary care, specialty care, tertiary care, inpatient and outpatient facilities, long-term care hospitals, and long-term care facilities (Lecture a) 2. Analyze the organization of healthcare delivery from the perspective of a “continuum of care,” such as ambulatory services, in-patient care, long-term care, and end-of-life care (Lecture a) 3. Evaluate the similarities and differences of community hospitals, teaching hospitals, and community health clinics (Lecture a) 4. Describe the various departments and services offered by an outpatient clinic, community hospital, academic medical center, and long-term care facility (Lecture b) 5. Explain the ways in which these departments interact and the services relate (Lecture b) 6. Speculate on the data and information that are created and used by people in these departments (Lecture b) 7. Describe ways in which medical and/or information technology has improved interdepartmental communication and how that has improved the patient experience (Lecture b)
