Sessional Lecturer eMHI3000H - Information and Interoperability Governance
University of Toronto
Sessional Lecturer eMHI3000H - Information and Interoperability Governance
CUPE Local 3902 (Unit 3) Job Posting
Sessional Lecturer Position
Posting Date: September 5, 2024
Program: Executive Master of Health Informatics (eMHI)
Sessional Dates of Appointment: Winter 2025, January to April
Course Title: eMHI3000H – Information and Interoperability Governance
Course Description:
Data are increasingly being collected digitally throughout our healthcare system. New sources and uses of data could help improve patient outcomes, lower health system costs, and improve health care provider productivity. They also present challenges:
- New types of data, (e.g., from DNA testing) may increase risk to privacy.
- For machine learning and artificial intelligence to work properly, data needs to be centralized, sometimes from multiple jurisdictions, to achieve sample sizes appropriate for training algorithms. This creates challenges with data security and data flows (due to legislative restrictions). Further, data science approaches to analyses challenge current data minimization principles.
- Many entities would like to monetize health data or use them for commercial purposes. The public are uneasy over this. Commercial interests must be balanced with public interests.
- Governments and payers want access to data to develop better policies and allocate resources more effectively.
- Healthcare organizations will need to share data more frequently to provide care to complex patients whose needs cannot be met by a single entity.
- Patients are increasingly asking for access to their data for personal use.
Current policies and mechanisms for data sharing cannot meet these challenges. Nor are there simple solutions to address these challenges.
The fundamental theme of this course is how the health care system can optimize and leverage the information collected to meet our evolving need for data to be used (and re-used) across organizations and applications while meeting our legal and privacy obligations. We will consider both theoretical/conceptual and operational aspects of data quality, responsible use of data, and outcomes assessment using real-world applications. We will also provide case examples of initiatives leading the way in this new data environment. The course will have a strong focus on emerging frameworks and technological solutions for solving key governance issues.
Objectives:
On completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify the multiple objectives served by data governance
- Describe the key approaches to governing data flows in Western societies
- Identify and diagnose data governance gaps in their organization
- Identify, critically appraise, and apply the appropriate data governance tools to address data governance needs appropriate to the context
Course Details:
Class schedule: Weekly, 2 hours
Estimated enrolment: 35
Estimated TA support: based on enrolment - None
Qualifications:
- A PhD or Masters level education with experience in health informatics and information technology;
- A robust understanding of EHR interoperability standards and architecture, data governance, software development life cycle, project management, change management and stakeholder engagement for IT systems;
- An extensive knowledge of eHealth landscape in Canada;
- Past teaching experience related to health informatics, preferably at the graduate level;
- Prior experience in curriculum development and adult teaching-learning methods;
- Comfortable with electronic teaching tools such as Learning Management Systems (e.g., Quercus), PowerPoint, as well as on-line collaboration tools (Blogs, Wikkis, Discussion Boards, Webinars, or Video-conferencing).
Duties:
- Course instructor for a professional graduate course using competency-based learning and assessment methods.
- Must be accessible to students outside of classroom hours.
- Available evenings and weekends.
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Application: Please send your CV and cover letter via e-mail to ihpme.appointments@utoronto.ca and ihpme.mhi.program@utoronto.ca.
Closing Date: September 25, 2024
This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.
It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.
Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.
Please Note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
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