At the completion of this block, the resident will have developed an understanding of:
- The role of IT in practice management
- The role of IT in performance analysis and quality
- Population health assessment
- Future trends in IT
- The physician leader’s role in advancing IT-based goals across a health system
- The EMR: friend or foe – how it works and how it’s supposed to work
Residents should ideally:
- Spend significant time with the CIO and CMIO
- Spend some time in the Help Center
- Be engaged with any new technology roll-outs happening within Beacon while on this rotation
- Engage with those overseeing Customer Experience and Digital Advancement technologies
- Engage with those working on telehealth technologies for Beacon
- Meet with those charged with onboarding physicians new to Beacon
- As appropriate, meet with those outside of Beacon doing similar things in their organization
- Meet or talk with individuals in organizations that they foresee themselves working with in their early career
- Discuss this topic with regional or national leaders in this field as they may be available through faculty or resident connections
- Do any assigned directed reading
