This series covers the essential concepts and lessons learned in the nature and design of systems & software for eHealth professionals.

Essential Concepts

Systems are an integral part of healthcare delivery and as a healthcare professional you may very well be part of an eHealth team as an informed user, analyst or developer as healthcare progresses toward a comprehensive eHealth system. This session will cover the essential concepts of systems including the unique nature of software and how it is designed and built.  The session will focus on the various components of a software system, the processes that are used to develop software and how they might be applied as in agile system development.

Good Practices

It is important for HI, HIM, IT/IS and eHealth professionals to be aware of the essential general approaches and new advances in software development. In particular, they need to understand good practices in software development and deployment. This talk will focus on these directions and good practices.