NIHI announces three new courses starting in April

WATERLOO, Ont. – The National Institutes of Health Informatics is launching three new online courses: Effective Dashboards; Canada-US Health Systems; and Quality & Regulatory Approaches for Medical Devices. The courses are designed to bring healthcare managers up-to-date on the latest developments in these areas so they’re able to bring new skills and insights to their organizations.

Development of Effective Dashboards for Health Care
10 Sessions, 10 Hours
Live, Interactive, Online via Webex
Weekly, April 19 – June 21, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

Healthcare organizations are rich in data. The development of effective data visualization tools empowers healthcare leaders to make data-driven decisions. Adopting interactive and user-friendly dashboards facilitates the interpretation of data to gain insights to benefit the organization’s performance. This course will outline a practical approach to developing and adopting dashboards healthcare leaders will want to use.

Competencies Achieved Upon Completion of Course:

• Explore best practices for dashboard development and techniques to facilitate adoption of analytics tools by healthcare leaders.
• Identify how to lead analytics teams to optimize their dashboard development processes.
• Explain how agile project management can be used to develop effective dashboards.

Your instructor:
Ahmad Chamy, BSc, MHA
Founder, D Cubed Analytics; Business Intelligence Analyst, Provincial Health Services Authority; Power BI Instructor, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Instructor, NIHI

Ahmad is the Founder of D Cubed Analytics, a boutique healthcare analytics firm based in Vancouver. Ahmad leads a team of Business Intelligence Consultants who provide technical expertise and dashboard development services to public & private healthcare organizations across Canada. He has taught effective dashboard development in corporate and academic settings for a number of years. He is passionate about educating healthcare professionals on how to build dashboards that help translate data into better decision making.

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Understanding the Healthcare System in Canada and the US
10 Sessions, in 9 weeks
Live, Interactive, Online via Webex
Weekly, April 25 – June 20, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET

The purpose of this course is to explain the complexity and intricacies of the Canadian and US healthcare systems. We will focus on an overview of the healthcare systems looking at healthcare facilities (type, governance, accreditation – from the family physician, to ambulatory care, to acute hospital care, and long-term care), personnel, funding, and legislation and laws pertaining to health system operations (including federal and provincial/territorial responsibilities, the Canada Health Act and selected provincial legislation). The status of the roll-out of a pan-Canadian ehealth record, patient portals, two way communication, advances in telehealth and connected health, mobile health applications and Innovation in health care, Health Canada and FDA approval process and procurement.

Competencies Achieved Upon Completion of Course:

• Describe and discuss the current structure and function of the Canadian and US healthcare systems.
• Understand several of the major issues facing the modern health care system with regard to health technologies and drugs (development, regulation, and use), the rollout of the electronic health record and the use and regulation of mobile technologies.
• Assess the population health indicators and health status for a city/province or region.
• Critically compare and contrast the two health systems in the areas presented in the course.

Your instructor:
Candace Gibson, PhD, CHIM, Assistant Dean, BMSUE, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University; Director, Center for Collaborative Command and Leadership, CMU & Western University; Instructor, NIHI

Dr. Gibson served as the Chair and Past-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA), and is recognized as one of the pioneers of Canadian e-learning, health informatics education, and as an editor and author of the first Canadian text book on health information management and recently of the Canadian guidelines for the health information management lifecycle. Dr. Gibson has been the recipient of numerous provincial and national research grants, and also of several awards recognizing her outstanding achievement as a university educator, the recipient of the AFMC-Infoway eHealth Award in 2013, and CHIMA’s Tribute to Excellence Award in 2016. She is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications in experimental neuroscience and health informatics.

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Pragmatic Quality & Regulatory Approaches for Medical Devices
8 Sessions, 8 Hours.
Live. Interactive. Online via Webex
Weekly, April 21 – June 16, 2023 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
No Session May 5, 2023

Health Care is a growing area of business, and new medical device and system innovations are emerging. The regulations and standards in the area of medical devices are trying to keep up with product innovations but are written with hardware concepts in mind. It is up to the quality and regulatory representatives of an organization to understand and apply the regulations and standards to their products. There are some key ways of approaching this area of quality and regulatory in medical devices with a pragmatic mindset and flexible way of thinking that can save time and effort.

Competencies Achieved Upon Completion of Course:

• Identify a Regulatory Strategy for an existing or new product.
• Create an outline of a Quality Management System for Hardware and/or Software Products.
• Apply best practices on a pragmatic approach to Regulations and Standards.

Your instructor:
Christie Eby, Director, Process Excellence, Quality Regulatory, Intellijoint Surgical; Instructor, NIHI

Christie Eby brings over 20 years of experience in the health IT field, in the areas of: Medical Device Regulatory, Quality Systems, Change Management, Process Improvement, Facilitation, Software Development and HR. Christie has recently joined Intellijoint Surgical as Director, Process Excellence, Quality Regulatory. For the previous 10 years she was part of the management team at Client Outlook Inc., purchased by Mach7 Technologies in July 2020.

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