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Applying an integrated model of curriculum design, implementation and evaluation in health information technology: Promoting patient care through meaningful evaluation practices
Purpose: This session will elaborate on a comprehensive model recently employed for developing, validating, and facilitating regional implementation and evaluation of a health information technology curriculum, as part of a federally-sponsored effort to train the healthcare workforce in meaningful use of patients’ Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
Methods: Using an iterative, systems-based and participant-oriented approach, we developed and validated instructor-friendly versions of curriculum materials in three phases: 1) curriculum content and assessment development, 2) content validation, and 3) design of a systems-based logic model to guide curriculum implementation and program evaluation.
Results: We produced validated versions of curriculum goal frameworks, student learning outcomes, multiple-choice tests, and performance assessments for 40 HITECH units for four curriculum components, tied to an evaluation protocol and logic model.
Conclusion: We present the model as an innovative and replicable methodology that is likely to promote evaluation use, and ultimately improve quality of patient care in hospital and clinic-based settings. The systems-based and stakeholder-oriented approach to curriculum design, implementation and evaluation is well grounded in literature drawn from standards-based education, evaluation, and health information technology. Because there are few similar models available in healthcare fields, the approach fills an existing gap in the literature. The presentation will elaborate on new insights and generalizable themes that emerged from the federally-funded project.
Learning Areas:
Communication and informaticsConduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Program planning
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Describe the role of the Curriculum Development Centers (CDCs) in the context of the The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) initiative of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)enacted in 2009.
Identify and describe the innovative and replicable methodology involved with the designing of curriculum and assessment materials for four HITECH components of the national curriculum for workforce development.
Describe the process by which the designed units underwent a content validation and revision to product a total of three iterations before national distribution.
Describe the design process of a systems-based logic model and evaluation protocol to guide curriculum implementation, program evaluation, and national scale-up efforts for workforce development and meaningful use of products.
Evaluate the presented comprehensive and stakeholder-oriented curriculum development model as an innovative and potentially replicable methodology aimed at improving quality of care in field settings.
Keyword(s): Curricula, Workforce Development
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I was a research assistant and co-principal investigator of an evaluation team as part of a two-year federally sponsored grant focusing on the curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation of four components of a national curriculum which sought to develop the workforce for meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) by health care systems.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.