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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  Quality Measurement and Performance  Unit Overview:  This unit describes the concepts of quality measurement and performance improvement. The unit begins by setting the context of known quality problems in healthcare and then describes how quality is measured and efforts to improve it. The unit also discusses the role of information technology, incentives for quality improvement, and quality measurement under meaningful use.  Unit Objectives:  By the end of this unit the student will be able to: 1. Define healthcare quality and the major types of quality measures: structural, process, and outcome measures (Lecture a) 2. Describe the current state of healthcare quality in the United States (Lecture a) 3. Discuss the current healthcare quality measures used in various healthcare settings in the US, including those required for the HITECH meaningful use program (Lecture b) 4. Describe the role of information technology in measuring and improving healthcare quality (Lecture c) 5. Describe the results of current healthcare quality efforts in the US (Lecture c)

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