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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MIT OpenCourseWare

Overview

This course is a collaborative offering of [Sana](http://sana.mit.edu/), [Partners in Health](http://www.pih.org/), and the [Institute for Healthcare Improvement](https://www.ihi.org/) (IHI). The goal of this course is the development of innovations in information systems for developing countries that will (1) translate into improvement in health outcomes, (2) strengthen the existing organizational infrastructure, and (3) create a collaborative ecosystem to maximize the value of these innovations. The course will be taught by guest speakers who are internationally recognized experts in the field and who, with their operational experiences, will outline the challenges they faced and detail how these were addressed. This OCW site combines resources from the initial Spring 2011 offering of the course (numbered HST.184) and the Spring 2012 offering (numbered HST.S14).

Syllabus

  • 1. Translational Research and Advocacy
  • 2. Design and Impact of Health Information Systems
  • 3. Overview of Quality Improvement
  • 4. Health Systems Research
  • 5. Process Improvement Theory and Application
  • 6. Innovation and Adoption of New Practices
  • 7. WHO Safe Surgery and Safe Childbirth Checklists
  • 8. What is Quality and Why Should We Measure It?
  • 9. Patient Safety in Resource-Poor Settings
  • 10. Organizational Change: Positive Deviance
  • 11. The Millenium Global Village-Network
  • 12. A Perspective on Monitoring and Evaluation
  • 13. Health System Design: Lessons from Rwanda and Haiti (audio only)
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 1
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 10
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 11
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 13
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 14
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 2
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 3
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 4
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 5
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 7
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 8
  • Spring 2011 Lecture 9
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 1.1
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 1.2
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 1.3
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 1.4
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 1.5
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 1.6
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 1.7
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 11
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 2.1
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 2.2
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 2.3
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 2.4
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 2.5
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 2.6
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 3
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 4
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 5
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 6
  • Spring 2012 Lecture 9

Taught by

Dr. Leo A Celi, Dr. Hamish Fraser, Dr. Ken Paik, and Prof. Peter Szolovits

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