HST.S14
Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings
Spring 2012
Topics
- Translational research and advocacy: New paradigms for equity
- Design and impact of health information systems in developing countries
- Overview of quality improvement
- Project mentor presentations
- Sana development workshop: Android client and OpenMRS development
- Operations management at the front lines
- Process improvement theory and application
- Case study: Designing a diabetes screening project in Punjab
- Case study: Wireless labor monitoring for developing settings: From idea to prototype to testing and beyond
- Development of standard terminology for global maternal and child health
- Smart software design for healthcare: unbiased signals, open and affordable technology for resource-constrained healthcare
- Innovation and Adoption of New Practices
- Checklists: Quality improvement in developing countries
- Evaluating process and outcome metrics in the context of quality
- Evaluating process and outcome metrics: Patient Safety
- Organizational change: Positive deviance
- Case study: Neri Clinics: Primary care in the developing world
- Organizational change: Lean sigma
- Collaborative change and wrap-up
- Student final project presentations
- Health system design: Lessons from Rwanda and Haiti
Readings
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.