IT for doctors

1. IT for Doctors

2. Overall aims
This course will deliver a program to
• Understand the possibilities of today’s IT
• Maximize your potential with IT
• How to use it for your career progression and
maintain your practice, education and life
style.
• Understand IT as a enabler of processes in the
health care organisation

3. Learning outcomes
• The basics of computing - What system do you need?
• Office 2010 update and alternatives – exploring its
potential
• Order in chaos - Scheduling and time management
• Passionate about paperwork –Document management
system made easy
• MMC – Multi media confusion – beyond PowerPoint -
imaging , video and audio in medicine
• Managing Data – database creation and maintenance
• Making most of freebies
• How IT works as a enabler

4. At the end of this course you will be
able
• to understand the potential of the latest IT and how it
can make your life easier.
• to make your home, office and your practice almost
paperless with powerful indexing and search
capabilities
• to create you archive of digital images that is
searchable and also produce your first clinical digital
video with editing and dubbing and produce your
own platform that can be universally accessible
• to Create your own network to Do collaborative work
as simple as 1,2 3

5. PREREQUISITES
• Participants must enroll for the course
• Completion of reading assignments
• Possession of basic IT skills with use of
Windows operating systems and internet
access

6. Reading List
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Windows_and_Linux
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
• http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1273
• http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7582/1283?ijKey=28705
b38f414b9e18fd651deec4f7813d72982ad&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
• CLINICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN HOSPITALS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN
THE STATE OF IOWA AND TWO PROVINCES IN CANADA Int J Med
Inform. 2005 Sep;74(9):719-31
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access
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