: Virtual EMR Classrooms to Train Returning Veterans for the 21st Century Health eworkforce OSEHRA Conference 4-6 September, 2013 North Bethesda, MD Elliot Sloane, PhD President, CHIRP EMR-STAR EMR System Training, Access, & Resource
Program Leadership Virtual EMR Classrooms to Train the 21st Century Health e Workforce Patricia Dombrowski Bellevue College Executive Director Health e Workforce Consortium Elliot Sloane President, Center for Healthcare Research & Policy Info: http://nwhit.org/
Patricia Dombrowski and Bellevue College really deserve ALL of the credit for this!! Our nation gets the benefit!
CHIRP has the 3-year exclusive contract with Bellevue College and the State of Washington to design, develop, implement, and provide EMR-STAR
EMR-STAR EMR System Training Access & Resources
Partners (To Date) Funding: U.S. Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Act
HEALTH e WORKFORCE CONSORTIUM TRAIN, SUPPORT & ASSIST >2,000 VETERANS & OTHERS INTO HIT EMPLOYMENT Some of the Key Features: EMR STAR -Cloud- Based Academic Access to EMR Systems HIMSS National Veterans Health IT Career Services Initiative Federally Registered Health IT Apprenticeship Curriculum & Faculty Development Health IT Credit for - Prior Learning Assessment Model
CHIME s most recent IT staffing survey found: 67% of respondents are experiencing shortages Source: CHIME-College of Healthcare Information Management Executives 2012
GROWING WORK FORCE NEED Source: Burning Glass Technologies 2012 Funding : Lumina and Joyce Foundations
A HERO S WELCOME TO HEALTH IT
PUBLIC HEALTH VETERANS HEALTHCARE CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT IN MILITARY VENDORS SERVING GOVERNMENT
#1 BARRIER TO ENTRY: EMR EXPERIENCE
The chicken and the egg: Employer: We only hire people with hands-on experience. Veteran: How can I get hands-on experience if you won t hire me?
HEALTH e WORKFORCE CONSORTIUM FREE ONLINE CURRICULA Health Information Technology CAHIMS Academy - New Entry Level Certification Healthcare Data Analytics Healthcare Database Management and Design Healthcare Computer Networking Health IT Security Mobile Device Management in Healthcare Mobile Health Software Development EMR
EMR System Training Access & Resources
Three Open Source Systems now in the EMR-STAR library Hosted by CHIRP. OpenEMR Physican practice management (MySQL) OpenMRS Hybrid best practices EMR to support HIV, tuberculosis, and other community health centers, including inand out-patient uses (MySQL) VistA Veteran s Administration s system full-hospital EMR (NoSQL)
OpenEMR fully browser-based, interactive user-centric system EMR-STAR
OpenMRS fully browser-based, interactive clinician-centric system EMR-STAR
EMR-STAR: Hands-On EMR Skills Diverse EMR software exposure Varied user interfaces See One, Do One, Teach One learning paradigm Learning to learn Problem solving goal seeking tasks Real-world clinical scenarios
Browser-based OpenEMR and OpenMRS are EMR-STAR: Hands-On EMR Skills tablet- and smartphone-friendly!
VistA The Power Tool in the EMR-STAR classroom! Not browser based; Windows client for patient care. Complex, but amazingly complete HIS! EMR-STAR
VistA allows much broader topics and skills Admission, Discharge, Transfer (ADT) Emergency Department In-Patient Care Laboratory Pharmacy Radiology Surgery Scheduling Etc
Additional VistA EMR-STAR features & opportunities being considered Baseline: Linux-based WorldVista, Fourth Watch Software dewdrop Examining learning enhancements, incl. Astronaut enhanced CPRS Enhancements from the vxvista.org library Windows-based Caché version Javascript toolset Mumps Open to other suggestions and contributions!
s VistA is being hosted by Villanova University s CEET program
Skills Goal for Learners EMR-STAR Learners experience multiple healthcare environments and software tools Hospitals Clinics Physician practices Departments, such as lab, radiology, and pharmacy, too Linux, Windows, Browsers, Tablets, Smartphones, etc
EMR-STAR: HIPAA Security & Privacy Make visible the tools used to assure HIPAA compliance Raise sensitivity, concern, adherence One size does not necessarily fit all
EMR-STAR: Quality reporting learning Ability to see different approaches to quality management and reporting, based on different system designs
EMR-STAR: Business continuity management learning Backup and restoration of systems Planning for change, and change management Software quality systems
Full visibility of entire database for teaching EMR-STAR: Quality reporting
Opportunities for Clinical Engineering and Biomed Technician Education EMR-STAR Low cost virtual classrooms for Electronic Medical Record system training Including underlying databases, security, networks, etc Sandboxes for researching, designing, developing, modeling, and testing medical device-to-emr interfaces Most of the systems have open API tools IHE-PCD interfaces for medical device integration are being developed for VistA and OpenEMR, considering OpenMRS, too
Many well-documented user interfaces EMR-STAR: Business Continuity Management and programming APIs visible, e.g.,
EMR-STAR: Business Continuity Management
Free, online curricula are already available at: https://www.nterlearning.org/web/guest/course-details?cid=912 Disclosure: Elliot Sloane was the Co-PI for the 3-year NSF project under a contract with CHIRP for developing the pilot CAHIMS Exam and Preparation Course
Broad set of topics already; Quite extensible to differing backgrounds! This CAHIMS curriculum is provided in easilymodified Word documents. The curriculum is being updated by Bellevue College to include use of EMR-STAR classroom resources. No charge; free to use, adapt, etc. Must provide attribution to the NSF and DoL funding behind it. CAHIMS certification may support job seekers.
Returning Veterans and the Health e-workforce Consortium Sample training/certificate/specializations areas Health Information Technology CAHIMS Academy - New Entry Level Certification Healthcare Data Analytics Healthcare Database Management and Design Healthcare Computer Networking Health IT Security Mobile Device Management in Healthcare Mobile Health Software Development EMR EMR-STAR Hands-on experiential learning!
EMR STAR - recap Focus: Returning Veterans CHIRP, Bellevue College, and HIMSS Partnership & Leadership Cloud Based Academic resource providing instructors and learners with diverse hands-on EMR System training Funded by Department of Labor to Develop HIT Workforce
Fall 2013 Status 20+ courses at 9 colleges across the US 300+ students starting with OpenEMR initially, adding VistA after Thanksgiving 13 Very diverse courses are adding EMR- STAR as enhancement/enrichment/infusion: Database Hemodialysis Techs Information Security Lab Techs Medical Assistants Medical Records Mobile Devices Nursing Pharmacy Techs Rad Techs
Consider joining the HIMSS SIG that I chair http://www.himss.org/get-involved/sigs/education
EMR System Training Access & Resources If you are willing to be a mentor to a returning veteran, please let me know!
Info: http://nwhit.org/ HEALTH e WORKFORCE CONSORTIUM - BELLEVUE COLLEGE Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, Education and Training Administration Grant TC-23745-12-60-A53 Thank you! Elliot Sloane - ebsloane@gmail.com www.ebsloane.org