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Rodger Marion, Bruce R.
Niebuhr
School of Allied Health Sciences
University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston
rmarion@utmb.edu
Health
Information System Simulation
- Health care providers need a
complete patient record in order to
make critical decisions. Barriers to
this up-to-date patient records are: 1)
patient information is scattered among
many health care facilities, 2)
difficulty sharing information, 3)
security and privacy concerns, and 4)
problem locating relevant data.
The consequence of current patient
information not being available is the
redoing of imaging studies and
laboratory tests, and the re-gathering
of patient histories and physicals.
Recent estimates indicate that about
30% of all tests are redone elsewhere
because the data was not available.
A computer-based patient record is
widely seen as the solution to these
problems. Few existing computer-based
patient records (CPR) incorporate all
these features, so we have been using a
simulation to prepare student sin using
a CPR in planning patient care. The
Health Information System Simulation
software is a set of programs designed
to teach problem-based clinical
diagnosis and care planning using a
simulated provider workstation. The
workstation has a complete virtual
patient record, links to community
resources, patient video interview, and
communication links to allow the
student to practice using a
computer-based environment for
interdisciplinary referrals and case
management. Forty colleges and
universities hold HISS software
licenses.
Objectives:
- The main goal of the Health
Information System Simulation (HISS)
software is to teach problem-solving
skills to health care professions
students. A second goal is to test the
use of HISS software as a mechanism to
change attitudes toward working with
rural, elderly, and medically
underserved patients. A third goal is
to provide health science faculty with
a tool for teaching patient care
practices that can form the centerpiece
of a computer-based course. A faculty
member can build a course around the
patient cases, and make the development
of patient care plans the summative
experiences, which can be preceded and
supplemented by other computer-based
activities (web-based lectures, videos,
tutorials, conferences, etc.)
Audience:
- Medical, nursing and allied health
students.
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- Criteria: Content Design |
Instructional Design | Screen Design |
Innovation | Evaluation of Learning |
Educational Value
College: School of Allied Health
Sciences
University: University of Texas Medical
Branch Galveston
Type of Use: Interactive Multimedia
Tutorial
Cognitive Strategy:
Chunking
| Frames
| Imagery
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Rehearsal
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