Courses number: HIM0004

introduction:

This course aims to help health care providers (hospitals, clinics and medical centers) and users of information technology for medical purposes in the change management process while engaging in electronic health records. Change management is considered as a basic foundation upon which all stages of the life cycle of work in the electronic health records and help achieve meaningful use of the records and in transforming practice. Work life cycle in the electronic health records shows stages that the medical institution traveled through the successful application of records. You must integrate strategies and principles of change management at all stages of the application process. This course combines change management strategies and proposed principles by John Cotter, one of the leading experts in the institutional change using the organization's approach to change management planning.

The course consists of the following parts:

First part: Presents the basic principles of change management and illustrates the importance of effective management of any change in the success of both the practical application of electronic health records and other initiatives to transform practices.

Second part: Provides more details about the application of the principles of Cotter in conditions that are based on a special type of management and organizational changes, which are those commonly found in medical institutions at the present time. The research focuses on the ways in which they can help administrators and leaders of medical institutions in improving the use of medical information technology to push their medical institutions in the direction of desirable future put.

Third part: It provides a summary of the critical success factors and necessary interventions to the administrative body in order to achieve the success of the initiatives which envisages the change, and some of the steps "to be carried out" in order to reach effective management of change.

Course contents:

1. What does it mean the management of change and from where it comes its importance?
   1. First phase: create a proper environment for change.
   2. Second phase: involve the institution and qualifying it.
   3. Third phase: Implement the changes and maintain it.
2. How does the change affect on people, processes, and used technology?
   1. Change the ways people works.
   2. Change procedures.
   3. Change the used technology.
3. What are the steps that you have to follow to start working?
   1. From paper records to electronic health records.
      1. The practical steps for the first phase: create a proper environment for change.
      2. The practical steps for the second phase: involve the institution and qualifying it.
      3. The practical steps for the third phase: Implement the changes and maintain it.
      4. Passing from the first phase to the second phase for the meaningful use - patient compliance.
         1. The practical steps for the first phase: create a proper environment for change.
         2. The practical steps for the second phase: involve the institution and qualifying it.
         3. The practical steps for the third phase: Implement the changes and maintain it.
      5. Replace an existing health record (rip and replace)
         1. The practical steps for the first phase: create a proper environment for change.
         2. The practical steps for the second phase: involve the institution and qualifying it.
         3. The practical steps for the third phase: Implement the changes and maintain it.
      6. New models for health care - medical care based on the patient
         1. The practical steps for the first phase: create a proper environment for change.
         2. The practical steps for the second phase: involve the institution and qualifying it.
         3. The practical steps for the third phase: Implement the changes and maintain it.
4. Measure the effectiveness of change management strategies to support successes

Training tools:

The training includes practical examples and a real applied model to deal with the electronic medical record in various operations.

Duration of the course:

30 hours.

The Course includes the following:
-Regulatory information and guidance booklet.
-Helping tools booklet.
-Planning Guide for the institution.