Wells Additional Classes Spring 2019

Wells Additional Classes Spring 2019

H-300 [#9553]: Colloquium. Digital Natives: How patients, Clinicians and Health Systems Use Technology
M W 4-5:15; priority enrollment for Wells Scholars. Open to all Hutton Honors students after November 11.

Class meets from 2/4-2/28 at Harlos House.
Objectives:


1. Health Technology: perspectives and potential. Understand the innovations and policy that shaped the current state of health IT, including evaluation of legislation such as HIPPA, HITECH act. Include a basic vocabulary about EMR/EHR, interoperability, what is CDS.

2. Technology and patient engagement: the current state of health IT can catalyze or hinder efforts to promote the evolution of health care delivery systems (team-based care, shared decision making and value-based care).

a. What is patient engagement and empowerment? What determines an impactful, effective technologies for patients (often outside of the clinical setting)

b. How does technology force the evaluation of a paternalistic to a model of shared medical decision making (publications on Open Notes, portals, etc.)

c. What is value-based care (or second curve health care) and what role has technology played in the patient and clinician experience?

3. Health inequities in the digital age: There is a lot of really good information about digital access; would be good to illustrate an exercise where a technology is optimized for mobile versus desktop – what you can show, what is limited, and compare compliance.

4. "Bedside manner" for the digital age: how can technology can enhance or degrade the provider/patient relationship, and what are the emerging skills in health IT best practices for clinicians.


H-400 Senior Seminar [011285]:

Natural Disasters, Sustainability, and the Future of Civilization
Michael Hamburger/ Christoph Irmscher

W 6-7:15; S/F. Class meets throughout the semester. Priority enrollment for seniors, open to all Wells Scholars by permission.

1 credit, S/F, Wednesdays, 6-7:15 pm

This one-credit interdisciplinary seminar will explore the most exciting—and often terrifying—manifestations of life on a dynamic planet. We will examine both the physical processes that produce natural disasters—including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, hurricanes, and tornadoes—and the historical, philosophical, religious, and artistic reflection on these natural disasters’ impact on human society. We will examine, using case studies from the ancient past to the distant future, how natural disasters challenge the fundamental resilience of societies, and the ways they are linked with human-induced environmental change.