TEACHING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION-SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH-CARE - LECTURE AND PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR STUDENTS OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS

For the management of information systems in health care, it is import ant that projects are systematically planned and carried out. This is a major task for medical informatics professionals which should be tau ght in a medical informatics curriculum. In the respective lecture in the Heidelberg/Heilbronn medical informatics curriculum, we teach fund amentals of the management of information systems and of projects. The examples of the lecture are taken from hospital information systems. Furthermore, we have developed a 5-step method for the systematic, goa l-oriented planning of projects. The lecture is complemented by a comp rehensive practical training, so that the methods taught can he applie d to a particular, relevant problem of the Heidelberg University Hospi tal. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.