Today’s #HITsm chat topic is near and dear to my heart: Health IT Literacy. I designed the curriculum for the first undergraduate degree in Medical Informatics/Health Information Science and that is exactly where I started! More specifically, I started with healthcare workflow as the conceptual foundation for health IT literacy. Today I’m raising awareness for the need for health workflow technology literacy along a variety of channels, blogs, Twitter, webinars, presentations, etc.
Health workflow tech literary is, in fact, an important, but not much unappreciated part of health IT literacy (oh the debates I’ve been in with the medical informatics folks…). So, below is my version of the five health workflow IT literacy questions.
Topic: Health Workflow IT Literacy
W1. Is health workflow IT literacy needed? If so, who is the audience?
W1: Health *workflow* IT literacy is essential. At various levels of detail, everyone in healthcare, from patient to programmer.
— Charles Webster MD ()
W2: What type of health workflow IT literacy is required?
W2: Health workflow IT literacy categories? Suggest Monroe's motivated sequence Attention, Need, Satisfaction, Visualization, Action!
— Charles Webster MD ()
W3: Who should be involved in promoting health workflow IT literacy?
W3: "Workflow is a sequence of tasks, consuming resource, achieving goals" So, Everyone. HC Workflow tech is a much smaller subset…
— Charles Webster MD ()
W4: How should health workflow literacy and health workflow IT literacy inter-relate?
W4: Knowledge of health workflow & IT is 2 separate today. Health workflow tech is opportunity 2 communicate & mindmeld across divide
— Charles Webster MD ()
W5: How will you promote health workflow IT literacy?
W5: Promote health *workflow* IT literacy: 1 Educate 2 Highlight workflow success stories/heroes 3 Connect Health IT & BPM companies
— Charles Webster MD ()
It should be an interesting #HITsm chat!
Cheers
Chuck
Chuck, DC, Workflow, my new post: From Health IT Literacy 2 Health Workflow IT Literacy
— Charles Webster MD ()
Agree. literacy should embrace workflow.
— Jon Mertz ()