STANDARD COMPETENCIES

 

 1. Demonstrate how the field of Health Care Informatics/EHRs impact Health Information Management and its functions.

 2. Explain the meaning of common health information technology terminology.

 3. Explain the role of the federal government in the adoption and use of electronic health records.

 4. Describe the components of an electronic health record, internet technologies (software utilization), archival and retrieval systems for

    patient information, and health information system infrastructure.

 5. Differentiate the different types of health records, their content and their documentation guidelines.

 6. Identify the purposes and methods related to record analysis, including quantitative, qualitative and legal.

 7. Describe the functions and evolving role of the Health Information Management (HIM) departments/professionals in transforming

    data into meaningful information.

 8. Demonstrate how data is collected and protected in a health information system.

 9. Describe the structure and use of healthcare data, the concepts of data integrity and governance, and the importance of

    addressing needs of multi-users.

 10. Identify the major data sets, standards, classifications and terminologies, and their scope/uses.

 11. Perform the collection of health care data for use with data analytics, in decision making (decision support), reporting

     (report generation technologies) and presentation (basic descriptive, institutional & healthcare statistics).

 TOPICAL OUTLINE

 

 I. Introduction to Health Information Technology, Health Informatics and Terminology

 II. Health Information System Infrastructure and Health Information System Components

 III. Health Information Technology Standards, Classifications and Terminologies

 IV. Health Record Content, Flow and Processing and Documentation Guidelines

 V. Legal Health Records, Personal Health Records, and Consumer Health Informatics

 VI. Privacy and Security in Health Information

 VII. Federal involvement in HIT and Meaningful Use

 VIII. Data and Information, Data Collection, Data Quality, and Data Access and Retention, including Institutional Review Board (IRB)

         processes and policies and National guidelines regarding human subject research and research protocol monitoring.

 IX. Databases, Data Warehouses, and Data Dictionaries

 X. SQL and Data Analysis and Presentation

 XI. Health Data Uses, Registries and Data Sets