Health Information Technology/Health IT
Health information technology (or health IT) applies various electronic methods that are used to manage data about people's health and health care, for individuals, patients, and populations. Health IT may include: clinical decision support, computerized disease registries, computerized provider order entry, consumer health IT applications, electronic medical record systems, electronic prescribing, and telehealth.
The Right Team at the Right Time
Authored by Barbara Brandt
As we approach the holiday season, I reflect on the past three years with the National Center. Many friends and colleagues are aware that my family and I have been intensely navigating the full breadth of the health care delivery system since 2012. Notably, my then spry 91-year old father fell on Christmas Day 2012 as we walked through his apartment door. The 2012 hip fracture and repair were followed by another fall on Easter 2013. On July 4, 2015, he fell again and suffered a severe fracture of his humerus, which is now held together with 11 pins. Our family now avoids holidays like the plague.
Why we need interprofessional education to improve the delivery of safe and effective care
Interprofessional education (IPE) is an activity that involves two or more professions who learn interactively together to improve collaboration and the quality of care. Research has continually revealed that health and social care professionals encounter a range of problems with interprofessional coordination and collaboration which impact on the quality and safety of care. This empirical work resulted in policymakers across health care education and practice to invest in IPE to help resolve this collaborative failures.
Interprofessional learning: Health and allied health students in a community context
There is a current focus within healthcare on interprofessional collaboration as an important tool in optimising health outcomes through effective, team-based care. Within higher education, interprofessional education is increasingly being incorporated into undergraduate health and allied health curricula. This article reports the implementation of a community-based, interprofessional student learning opportunity for undergraduate health and allied health students. Qualitative data were collected from the student and academic participants with a number of key themes identified.
Practical Strategies for Integrating Interprofessional Education and Collaboration into the Curriculum
Interprofessional collaboration is vital for the provision of quality patient care. Thoughtfully designed educational programs can help students of health professions develop interprofessional competencies and capacities, including values and ethics, roles and responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and teamwork (Interprofessional Education Collaborative Expert Panel, 2011).
Interprofessional Education of Health Professionals: Social Workers Should Lead the Way
Editorial in Health & Social Work focusing on the opportunity for the field of social work to lead the IPE field.
The United States National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education: Integrating an informatics approach to interprofessional work
The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, a United States public–private partnership, was formed to provide national leadership, scholarship, evidence, and coordination to advance interprofessional education (IPE) and practice.
The National United States Center Data Repository: Core essential interprofessional practice & education data enabling triple aim analytics
Understanding the impact that interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) might have on triple aim patient outcomes is of high interest to health care providers, educators, administrators, and policy makers. Before the work undertaken by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at the University of Minnesota, no standard mechanism to acquire and report outcome data related to interprofessional education and collaborative practice and its effect on triple aim outcomes existed.
Women’s Health Curricula: Final Report on Expert Panel Recommendations for Interprofessional Collaboration across the Health Professions
Improved inclusion of women’s health education among a growing cadre of health professionals is a key task for the coming decade. Today, experts in the field of women’s health define the discipline as a product of cultural, social, and psychological factors in addition to biology (Verdonk, Benschop, de Haes, & Lagro-Janssen, 2009). Independent approaches to improve women’s health curricula can promote advances in the field. However, women’s health education would also benefit from a collaborative effort to create a broader agenda for women’s health curricula.