IOM quality characteristics of a health care delivery system; Ferlie and Shortells nested model: the individual patient, the care team, organisation, and environment; complexity of health care; role of information and communication technology (ICT) as an enabler in the delivery of health care. Classification of health care information systems; systems in a variety of application areas such as patient information, monitoring, decision support, imaging, diagnostics and treatment, prescription and dispensing, maintaining registries, management, surveillance, scheduling, tracking, finance, data analysis and reporting. Key benefits, features and functions of HCISs; single, group and multi-location solutions; reasons for the failure of health information systems. Introduction to systems engineering tools: systems design tools for meeting needs/desires of stakeholders; systems analysis tools for analysing existing systems for improvement; and systems control tools to ensure processes are operating within their prescribed limits. Evolution of health information systems: functional perspective, technology perspective and architectural perspective. Identify the hardware architecture, input/output devices, storage devices and communications and network architecture to support health care delivery; assistive technologies; ambient assisted living; emerging mobile and wireless technologies. Document-specific technologies. Components of a health information system: patient component, activity component, health record component, knowledge component, resource management component, security component, imaging management and integration component. Standards in health care; systems standards, vocabulary standards, messaging standards and security standards. Signal, image and video compressions; digitized, electronic and digital signatures; encryption and decryption. How technologies and their methods of implementation effect usage and acceptance and affect users; technical challenges and opportunities; economic, organisational and cultural barriers. Health care data standards: Health level 7 v3; DISOM; NCPDP; medical device data IEEE Standard 1073; FDA; what is a medical device; medical device classes: I, II and III; medical software classes: I, II and II; FDA inspection; FDA regulation and guidelines for development of software as detailed in General Principles of Software Validation: Final Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff and Off-The-Shelf Software Use in Medical Devices, introduction to the AAMI Human Factors Engineering Guidelines and Preferred Practices for the Design of Medical Devices. Introduction to health information system evaluation frameworks; evaluation aspects: technology, human and organisation.

Outline the role of information and communications technology as an enabler in the delivery of quality health care. Describe the features and functions of health care information systems and their ability to support the direct and indirect delivery of health care. Identify hardware architecture and communications and network architecture required support these systems. Apply systems engineering, systems analysis and systems control tools to health care delivery. Describe the components of a health information systems. Discuss systems standards, vocabulary standards, messaging standards and security standards applicable to the health informatics applications. Describe the privacy, access, confidentiality, ethical, legal and security issues surrounding health informatics applications.

Demonstrate a recognition of how technologies and their methods of implementation effect usage and accepts and affects users. Demonstrate a recognition of the economic, organisational and cultural barriers to adopting a health informatics application. Defend the role of information and communications technology in enabling effective and efficient health care delivery. Recognise the need for continual learning in informatics skills and knowledge.

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