Essential eHealth Skills Workshop

for Private Medical Practitioners

(Course Code: EESW-PMP-2006)

Introduction | Benefits | Course Structure | CME Accreditation | Lectures Outlines | eHealth Forum 2006 | Skills Labs

Schedule and Venue | Fee and Admittance | Registration

Introduction

Recent development in the local healthcare sector makes the need to use IT more imminent. Although more doctors are becoming aware of the advantage of using IT in their daily practice, the increase in usage has been modest. As illustrated in the SARS outbreak, medical professionals, especially private doctors have such need to acquire the skills on health informatics.

The eHealth Consortium, with founding members from the Internet Professional Association, Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics, Department of Health, Hospital Authority and the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, is now executing an educational project in hope to sustain the effort in promoting IT use in the healthcare sector.

This course, as the initial effort of the project, will focus on the application of eHealth technology and solution-based trainings on practical usage of common eHealth applications primarily for medical practitioners from private sector.

	Who should attend:
	Private Medical Practitioners
	Nurses and other Medical and Healthcare Professionals
	Related IT Professionals

Benefits

Upon completion of the course, participants will be prepared for:

	Applying IT to facilitate their management of clinics and provide better services to their patients;
	Using the software packages commonly used in clinical practices, including the Electronic Patient Records (ePR) of the Hospital Authority and Central Notification Office web-based interface (CENO) of the Centre for Health Protection;
	More efficient and accurate patient data sharing;
	Further educational opportunities in health informatics; and
	Active participation of the eHealth initiatives to be carried out in Hong Kong in the coming years.

Course Structure

To complete the course and obtain the certificate of attendance, a candidate must obtain at least:

	6 credits from completing lectures (2-credit each) or attending the eHealth Forum 2006 (2-credit each)
	2 credits from completing a skills lab

CME Accreditation

Family physicians will be awarded 2 CME points (Cat 5.2) with proven attendance to the Forum.  Up to 10 CME points are available for each family physician. Please contact the eHealth Consortium Secretariat for enquiries.