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Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings
Art: after Jan Kalkar, Vesalius - Opera, 1725. Fig. 597, 1725 · Public domain
- Instructors
- Leo A. Celi, Dr. Hamish Fraser, Prof. Peter Szolovits, Dr. Ken Paik
- Term
- Spring 2012
- Level
- Undergraduate, Graduate
- What's inside
- 44 videos · 6 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- Videos here · files on MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare HST.S14 Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings, Spring 2012, Leo A. Celi, Dr. Hamish Fraser, Prof. Peter Szolovits, Dr. Ken Paik — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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How this course was organized
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Materials by section
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Lecture Videos and Slides
32 videos
- Spring 2012 Lecture 1.1 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 1.2 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 1.3 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 1.4 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 1.5 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 1.6 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 1.7 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 2.1 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 2.2 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 2.3 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 2.4 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 2.5 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 2.6 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 3 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 4 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 5 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 6 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 9 Open ↗
- Spring 2012 Lecture 11 Open ↗
- 1. Translational Research and Advocacy Open ↗
- 2. Design and Impact of Health Information Systems Open ↗
- 3. Overview of Quality Improvement Open ↗
- 4. Health Systems Research Open ↗
- 5. Process Improvement Theory and Application Open ↗
- 6. Innovation and Adoption of New Practices Open ↗
- 7. WHO Safe Surgery and Safe Childbirth Checklists Open ↗
- 8. What is Quality and Why Should We Measure It? Open ↗
- 9. Patient Safety in Resource-Poor Settings Open ↗
- 10. Organizational Change: Positive Deviance Open ↗
- 11. The Millenium Global Village-Network Open ↗
- 12. A Perspective on Monitoring and Evaluation Open ↗
- 13. Health System Design: Lessons from Rwanda and Haiti (audio only) Open ↗
Projects
- Final paper: Designing a Public Health Software Framework: Porting OpenMRS data to i2b2 Download
- Final paper: Vaccine Supply Chain in Ethiopia Download
- Final paper: Impact of US Federal Funding on Global e-Health Initiatives in Developing Countries Download
- Spring 2012 Lecture 10.1 Download
- Spring 2012 Lecture 10.4 Download
Other materials from this course
12 videos
- Spring 2011 Lecture 1 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 2 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 3 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 4 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 5 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 7 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 8 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 9 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 10 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 11 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 13 Open ↗
- Spring 2011 Lecture 14 Open ↗
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Design and impact of health information systems in developing countries
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Lecture 3: Overview of quality improvement
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Lecture 4: Project mentor presentations
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Lecture 5: Sana development workshop: Android client and OpenMRS development
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Lecture 6: Operations management at the front lines
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Lecture 7: Process improvement theory and application
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Lecture 8: Case study: Designing a diabetes screening project in Punjab
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Lecture 9: Case study: Wireless labor monitoring for developing settings: From idea to prototype to testing and beyond
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Lecture 10: Development of standard terminology for global maternal and child health
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Lecture 11: Smart software design for healthcare: unbiased signals, open and affordable technology for resource-constrained healthcare
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Lecture 12: Innovation and Adoption of New Practices
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Lecture 13: Checklists: Quality improvement in developing countries
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Lecture 14: Evaluating process and outcome metrics in the context of quality
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Lecture 15: Evaluating process and outcome metrics: Patient Safety
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Lecture 16: Organizational change: Positive deviance
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Lecture 17: Case study: Neri Clinics: Primary care in the developing world
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Lecture 18: Organizational change: Lean sigma
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Lecture 19: Collaborative change and wrap-up
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Lecture 20: Student final project presentations
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Lecture 21: Health system design: Lessons from Rwanda and Haiti
MIT OpenCourseWare, Leo A. Celi, Dr. Hamish Fraser, Prof. Peter Szolovits, Dr. Ken Paik, HST.S14 Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings, Spring 2012.
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