Certificate of Completion Healthcare Informatics

Brief Description

This Healthcare Informatics certificate provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding technical healthcare infrastructure and its relevance to the implementation of the electronic medical record.

Learning Outcomes

Certificate recipients should possess the skills and abilities described below:

• Apply historical perspective of healthcare in the United States, with emphasis on cost, quality and access to the clinical workplace
• Discern opportunities and challenges by using a referential framework of healthcare reform currently underway in the United States
• Understand the ramifications of the electronic medical record (EMR) to patients, policy, and data delivery
• Apply a working understanding of coding and classification systems to clinical IT projects
• Ensure patient safety through the application of knowledge of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and other patient privacy and security issues
• Analyze need in hospital technical infrastructure, technical standards, systems interoperability and medical device integration
• Use project management principals in a healthcare setting
• Understand medical terminology used in the healthcare setting

Completion Worksheet

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