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    AHI-CCD-C101 - Foundations of Health Informatics (Shared Track)

    Introduces students to the field of health informatics, exploring its history, principles, domains, and applications, with emphasis on global health and LMIC contexts.

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    AHI-CCD-C201 - Clinical Workflow & Nursing Informatics (Clinical & Care Delivery (CCD) Track))

    Integrates nursing informatics with workflow analysis to support system design, EHR adoption, and quality improvement.

    Not available unless: You belong to Clinical & Care Delivery
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    AHI-DHS-C202 - Health Data Standards and Interoperability (Digital Health Systems (DHS) Track)

    Course Description – Health Data Standards & Interoperability

    This course focuses on how health data is structured, standardized, and exchanged across systems to support clinical care, reporting, and research.

    Building on foundational concepts, learners will apply key standards and interoperability principles to real-world health systems, with emphasis on LMIC and oncology-informed scenarios. The course prioritizes application over theory, guiding learners to identify data inconsistencies, map system interactions, and design practical, feasible solutions that improve data quality and flow.

    All learning activities are directly aligned with capstone development, ensuring that students produce meaningful, real-world outputs.

    • Syllabus - Health Data Standards & Interoperability File
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Discussion Forum - Health Data Standards & Interoperability (DHS Cohort)
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Core Text: Digital Health Platform Handbook: Building a Digital Information Infrastructure (Infostructure) for Health File
    • Lesson Notes Week 1 - Interoperability in Practice – Why Systems Fail File
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • ASSIGNMENT 1: Interoperability in Practice: Mapping and Fixing a Real Data Breakdown
      Opened: Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 12:00 AM
      Due: Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 12:00 AM
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Video 1 - Health Data Standards & Interoperability: Explained URL
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Video 2- How to Achieve True Interoperability in Healthcare Systems URL
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Lesson Notes Week 2 - How Data Becomes Structured, Shared & Reusable File
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Lesson Notes Week 3 - Designing Practical Interoperability Solutions File
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Design Submission - 30% of DHS-C202 Course grade Assignment
      Opened: Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 12:00 AM
      Due: Sunday, May 24, 2026, 12:00 AM
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
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    AHI-DHS-C201 - Electronic Health Records (EHRs) & Health IT Systems (Shared Track)

    Electronic Health Records (EHRs) & Health IT Systems
    From Clinical Encounters to Connected Care: How EHRs Transform Healthcare Delivery

    This course introduces the principles, functions, and real-world application of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Health IT Systems through an applied, healthcare workflow-focused lens. Learners explore how patient information is captured, managed, shared, and used throughout the continuum of care, from registration and clinical documentation to reporting, decision support, and population health management.

    Using OpenMRS as a hands-on learning platform, participants gain practical experience navigating an EHR environment while developing an understanding of the people, processes, workflows, and technologies that make digital healthcare possible. The course emphasizes how EHRs support clinicians, administrators, health information managers, researchers, and public health professionals in delivering safer, more coordinated, and more efficient care.

    The course focuses on answering critical health information system questions:

    • How does patient information move through a healthcare system?
    • What information should be captured, structured, and maintained?
    • How do EHRs support clinical decision-making and care coordination?
    • Why do many EHR implementations succeed or fail?
    • How can digital systems improve healthcare quality, efficiency, and outcomes?

    Through practical OpenMRS exercises, workflow analyses, implementation case studies, and real-world healthcare scenarios, learners will develop the ability to understand healthcare processes from both clinical and technical perspectives. By the end of the course, participants will be able to evaluate EHR workflows, identify opportunities for improvement, understand key implementation considerations, and apply EHR concepts to support healthcare delivery and digital transformation initiatives in both LMIC and high-resource settings.

    Course Theme: From Clinical Encounters to Connected Care: Understanding How Health Information Becomes Actionable Through Electronic Health Records.

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    AHI-CCD-C202 -Clinical Documentation Improvement (Clinical & Care Delivery (CCD) Track)

    Focuses on improving the quality, clarity, and completeness of clinical documentation to support patient care and health system planning, especially in low-resource and hybrid (paper + digital) settings

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    AHI-DHS-C202 - Health Systems Architecture & Digital Infrastructure (Digital Health Systems (DHS) Track)

    Introduces the foundational architecture of modern digital health systems, with emphasis on LMICs. Participants learn how electronic health systems are built, deployed, and maintained, including networks, servers, cloud platforms, data storage, interoperability layers, and national digital health frameworks.

    This course serves as the bridge between using health information systems (the EHR course) and designing, integrating, and governing digital health ecosystems.

    During this course, we will learn how digital health systems are architected so you can collaborate effectively with technical teams and make informed decisions as informaticists, clinicians, program managers, or digital health leaders.

    It is NOT  a networking or server administration course like an IT certification.

    Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
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    AHI-CCD-C301 - Public Health Informatics & Global Population Health (Clinical & Care Delivery (CCD) Track)

    Focuses on digital health approaches for surveillance, outbreak response, and population health improvement.

    • General Discussion Forum
    • Week 1 Video 1: Zooming Out From Patient to Population File
    • Week 1 Video 2: Auditing the Public Health Data Ecosystem File
    • Week 1 Discussion: Mindset Shift Forum
      Not available unless: You belong to Clinical & Care Delivery
    • Week 1 Applied Assignment: Data Ecosystem Mapping
      Not available unless: You belong to Clinical & Care Delivery
    • Week 2 Video 1: The Anatomy of Surveillance File
    • Week 2: Video 2: Demystifying the Cancer Registry File
    • Week 2: Discussion : What disease or condition is most difficult to monitor effectively in your setting? Forum
      Due: Monday, August 3, 2026, 11:59 PM
      Not available unless: You belong to Clinical & Care Delivery
    • Week 2 Applied Assignment Surveillance Framework Design
      Not available unless: You belong to Clinical & Care Delivery
    • Week 3 Video 1: The Power of 'Where' File
    • Week 3 Video 2: Dashboards that Drive Access File
    • Week 3: Discussion: Digital Outreach Forum
      Not available unless: You belong to Clinical & Care Delivery
    • Week 3 Applied Assignment
      Not available unless: You belong to Clinical & Care Delivery
    • Week 4 Video 1: Speaking Policy File
    • Week 4 Video 2: The Equity Check File
    • Week 4: Discussion- Can digital health reduce health inequities in your setting? Why or why not? Forum
      Not available unless: You belong to Clinical & Care Delivery
    • Week 4 Applied Assignment
      Not available unless: You belong to Clinical & Care Delivery
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    AHI-DHS-C301 - Data Security, Privacy & Ethics (Digital Health Systems (DHS Track)

    Introduces cybersecurity, privacy laws, and ethical considerations.

    • Data Security, Privacy & Ethics Syllabus File

      Syllabus - ambitious, and we may not get to all of it, but let's try!

    • General Discussion Forum

      Here is a place for intros, reflections, any questions not directly related to given week's material, etc.

    • Week 1 - The threat outsiders underestimate Forum
      Due: Sunday, August 2, 2026, 11:59 PM

      Describe one threat to health data in your facility or program that an outside consultant would probably miss or underrate. Classify it using the modified STRIDE framework and say why it persists. Do not name your facility if the detail is sensitive.

      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Week 1 - Which failure is yours? Forum
      Due: Sunday, August 2, 2026, 11:59 PM

      Of the three documented incidents from this week (the BPJS Kesehatan breach, the NHLS exposure, and the DHIS2 deployment findings), which failure mode is most plausible in your own context, and what single condition makes it so?

      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Week 1 - One control that actually worked Forum
      Due: Sunday, August 2, 2026, 11:59 PM

      Share one low-cost security or data-handling control that genuinely worked in your setting: what it was, what it cost in money and staff time, and what made it stick. Replies should probe transferability, not politeness.

      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Week 2 - Your two legal layers Forum
      Due: Sunday, August 2, 2026, 11:59 PM

      Identify the data protection law and the cybercrime law that apply where you work, and state the breach or incident reporting clock under each. If you operate in Nigeria, reconcile the NDPA 72-hour notification with the Cybercrimes Act 72-hour sectoral CERT report: one incident, two clocks, whose job is each?
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Week 2 - Defend it or replace it Forum
      Due: Sunday, August 2, 2026, 11:59 PM

      Take a position on the maternal referral WhatsApp group from the live session case: defend keeping it (with safeguards) or propose the replacement. Cite at least one specific statutory provision from any jurisdiction covered this week, and address what your position does to referral speed.
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Week 2 - Where the gap bites Forum
      Due: Sunday, August 2, 2026, 11:59 PM

      The distance between what the law requires and what facilities can do is a theme of this module. Where does that gap bite hardest in your context, and is it a resources problem, a knowledge problem, or an incentives problem?
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Week 3 - One CARE principle, one dataset Forum
      Due: Sunday, August 2, 2026, 12:00 AM

      Pick one dataset you manage or contribute to and apply one CARE principle to it (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, or Ethics). What would change concretely if the principle were honored, and who would have to agree?
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Week 3 - The donor asks for the data Forum
      Due: Sunday, August 2, 2026, 12:00 AM

      A funder makes record-level data export a condition of continued funding for your program. Draft the five-sentence response you would actually send. Replies should stress-test whether the response would survive contact with the funder.
      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Week 3 - Capstone stakeholder maps Forum
      Due: Sunday, August 2, 2026, 12:00 AM

      Post the stakeholder map for your Ethics Case Analysis: stakeholders, interests, power, and vulnerability. Give substantive comments on at least one peer map; the most useful comment names a stakeholder or an interest the author missed.

      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Final Capstone Reflection - What Transfers and What Does Not Forum

      So, in order to make it a bit smoother of a ride onto the next module, I'll go ahead and boil down grading/assessment requirements to this final reflection prompt. Please take your time and work through each section, giving it the care I hope this subject matter has elicited in all of you so far:


      1. Where a reading gave you language for something you already knew. Point to one idea, term, or framework from the readings that named something you have already seen in your own setting. Describe what you saw, and what the reading calls it.

      2. Where a reading does not fit your reality. Point to one place where a reading, a law, or a framework assumes conditions that do not exist where you work. Be specific about the assumption, and specific about the reality. This is the most useful thing you can write here.

      3. One thing you could change in 30 days. Name one change you could make without new budget, new staff, or new authority from above. Small is fine. Say who you would need to talk to first.

      Optional fourth: one question the readings left you with that you still cannot answer.

      Not available unless: You belong to Digital Health Systems
    • Data Security, Privacy, & Ethics Week 1 Lecture Notes File
    • Data Security, Privacy, & Ethics Week 2 Lecture Notes File
    • Data Security, Privacy & Ethics Week 3 Lecture Notes File
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    AHI-DHS-C302 - Research Informatics & Data Management (Shared Track)

    Covers tools and skills for managing clinical, implementation, and public health research