Course 7: Health Information Technology (HIT)
Introduces the concepts and individual HIT components used in day-to-day Guided Care practice. Estimated time to complete this module: 15 minutes. Remember to disable your pop-up blocker.
Target Audience
Registered nurses (RN) and healthcare providers focusing on best practices in chronic disease management, case management, caregiver education and support, transitional care, and geriatric evaluation and management.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the role of HIT in creating and updating Care Guides.
- Describe the role of HIT in checking for possible drug interactions.
- Describe the role of HIT in reminding nurses of clinical tasks scheduled for specific dates.
- Describe the role of HIT in documenting clinical interactions.
Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA
Dr. Boult is the Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He directs the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care and holds joint appointments on the faculties of the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
Dr. Boult is a geriatrician with extensive experience in developing, testing, evaluating, and diffusing new models of health care for older persons. He is the principal investigator of a multi-site, cluster-randomized controlled trial of the Guided Care model of primary care for older people with multiple chronic conditions that is located in the Baltimore-Washington, DC, area which is funded by a public-private partnership including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute on Aging, the John A. Hartford Foundation, and the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation.
An author of numerous publications in professional journals, Dr. Boult is the recipient of the Excellence in Research Award from the American Geriatrics Society in 2000, the David H. Solomon Award from the UCLA Medical School and the Excellence in Program Innovation Award (for Guided Care) from the American Public Health Association in 2008. Additional information is available at www.jhsph.edu/LipitzCenter and www.GuidedCare.org.