CUPE Local 3902 (Unit 3) Job Posting
Sessional Lecturer Position
Posting Date: May 2, 2025
Program: Executive Master of Health Informatics (eMHI)
Sessional Dates of Appointment: Fall 2025, September to December
Course Title: MHI2022H – Economics and Value Design in Healthcare
Course Description:
Economics is concerned with the allocation of resources within and between markets and how markets themselves are established and evolve to facilitate transactions. The health care marketplace represents a forum for exchange between and among diverse health system stakeholders. To facilitate and manage such transactions, information needs to be generated and communicated about the attributes and characteristics of the products and services being transacted and the underlying preferences of a range of stakeholders. In this regard, information design and communication, that are at the heart of health informatics, are employed to advance value in health care transactions. Consequently, health infonomics concerns the study of the creation and use of health metrics to modify, guide/inform/control, assess, and facilitate decisions about alternative resource allocations. This course is designed to introduce participants to insights that emerge through the synthesis of economic principles with concepts and practices in information design and communication.
Prior knowledge of economics is not required; however, participants are expected to be versed in health informatics. Upon completion, participants will possess analytic skills applicable to the economic evaluation of health information technology and will know how economists’ approach important issues where the disciplines of economics and health informatics intersect. The economics of health informatics is concerned with the design, use, and generation of health and health system metrics that further the objectives of diverse health system stakeholders, which may include population health, value for money, and other objectives, such as provider income and control.
Objectives:
To ensure participants understand that the economics of health informatics concerns the design, use, & generation of health, health service & health system metrics that further value in health care transactions for a range of stakeholders that may include population health;
To introduce participants to different methods for the economic evaluation of health information technologies; and
To demonstrate how the economics of health informatics offers insights into and methods to enhance and influence:
(i) Stewardship & control by policy makers, technocrats, payers, & managers;
(ii) Productivity of health care resources (people, tools, technologies, techniques & places); and may be used to foster or regulate:
(iii) Autonomy & informed choice by care recipient’s & their caregivers’ in decisions to seek, receive & use health care services.
Course Details:
Class schedule: Modular
Estimated enrolment: 100
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: May 22, 2025
This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.
Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II and Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12.
Candidates who are members of Indigenous. Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity-deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the position
