HCIS 235   Care Coordination and Interoperable Health IT Systems (2 Hours)

This course discusses care coordination as deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants involved in a patient’s care (including the patient) to facilitate the appropriate delivery of healthcare services. This course provides an overview of interoperable health information technology (IT) that is patient-centered making the right data available to the right people at the right time, across products and organizations, in a way that can be relied upon and meaningfully used by recipients. The ability to seamlessly share health information is essential to building a patient-centered, interoperable health IT ecosystem in the United States, thus facilitating coordination of care.