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Sep 07, 2024
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HIT 360 - Introduction to HIT Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Voc/Tech This course covers the basics of health information technology (HIT) and electronic health information exchange (HIE). Current and emerging e-health applications will be discussed, including electronic health records (EHRs), registries, clinical decision tools, etc. Other topics include current federal and state e-health initiatives, the clinic value of health IT and the potential impact on the health care system. Competencies
- Explain the current healthcare environment
- Review the U.S. health care delivery system
- Summarize key issues facing today’s health care providers
- Describe types of health care providers and health care settings
- Discuss payment mechanisms
- Explain the role of government in health care
- Describe roles of health information management/health IT professionals
- Evaluate the health care technology environment
- Examine components and information systems in the HIT environment
- Evaluate and research trends in healthcare clinical, administrative and financial applications
- Discuss current federal e-health initiatives and efforts to create a eHealth Exchange
- Explain highlights of the 2009 ARRA HITECH Act and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)
- Describe current Iowa-based e-health initiatives, including the Iowa e-health project
- Define CPOE, eRx, CDS, EHR, PHR, e-health, HIE, telehealth
- Summarize recognized e-health resource websites, including healthit.hhs.gov, ehealthinitiative.org
- Describe recognized e-health professional associations, such as HIMSS and AHIMA, and available health IT professional certifications
- Discuss consumer access to electronic health information
- Examine the current emphasis on electronic health records (EHRs).
- Summarize the advantages of electronic health records over paper-based and hybrid health records
- Describe the current state of EHR adoption and the common implementation challenges
- Explain the Medicare and Medicaid incentive and quality payment programs that provide financial incentives and penalties to providers and healthcare organizations
- Differentiate between Medicare and Medicaid Meaningful Use incentive programs
- Summarize the common health information standardized data and code sets and types of data
- Discuss types of data standards and their importance
- Discuss electronic health information exchange
- Describe the concepts of regional health information organizations (RHIOs), health information exchanges (HIEs) and eHealth Exchange (formerly NwHIN) and the ONC grant program utilized for the development of HIEs
- Explain how standards are needed to support transitions of care, lab exchange, patient engagement and public health measures to meet interoperability needs of HIEs
- Review the benefits and challenges of HIEs including privacy and security issues
- Define the terms HL7, C-CDA, S&I (formerly HITSP), NIST, HISP and how they relate to HIE
- Summarize governance and funding models for HIEs
- Review the importance of consumer involvement in HIE & personal health record development
- Define a Transitions of Care Summary/Summary of Care Record/Continuity of Care Document (CCD) as it relates to the Summary of Care Meaningful Use objective
- Explain the concept of “middleware” and how it relates to HIE
- Discuss HIE readiness and the changing workflow to incorporate HIE and EHR use as they impact providers and health care organizations
- Report on a local meeting that was attended related to HIT/HIE, such as the Iowa e-health Advisory Council, IA-HIMSS chapter meeting, IA-AHIMA chapter meeting, etc
- Outline basic principles of systems analysis and design
- Explain systems analysis in healthcare information technology
- Describe the system development life cycle
- List systems design steps
- Describe sources of information for technology evaluation
- Compare the selection of a design approach: Build or Buy
- Discuss supporting business needs
- Explain interoperability and standards
- Differentiate between requests for information and requests for proposal
- Explain system selection, implementation, support & maintenance
- Describe the components of system selection
- Discuss vendor demonstrations
- Summarize the system implementation process
- Review training needs
- Understand Help Desk logs and log analysis
- Explain disaster recovery, backup, contingency planning and downtime procedures
- Summarize systems testing and evaluation
- Explain testing and evaluation
- Discuss post-implementation review/maintenance and support
- Examine systems privacy and security
- Describe systems privacy and security
- Differentiate between privacy vs. security
- Describe the basic concepts of HIPAA and how it relates to electronic data
- Explain key components of privacy and security laws and individual rights
- Summarize the compliance process
- Define access, authorization, authentication and audits
- Discuss privacy and security incidents/breaches
- Explain the role of administration leadership/management in health IT
- Discuss leadership and management roles
- Describe strategic planning and alignment within the organization
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