Unit 1: Background and Foundational Information
1. Informatics as a Profession
2. Theoretical Foundations of Health informatics
3. Use of Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence in
Informatics
4. Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and Practice-Based Evidence
5. Program Evaluation and Research Techniques
Unit 2: Information Systems and Applications for Delivery of Health
Care
6. Electronic Health Records and Applications for Managing Patient Care
7. Administrative Applications in Healthcare Delivery
8. Telehealth and Applications for Delivering Care at a Distance
9. Home Health and Related Community-Based Systems
10. Clinical Decision Support Systems in Healthcare
11. Public Health Informatics
12. Organizational Informatics
13. Technical Infrastructure to Support Healthcare
Unit 3: Participatory Health Care Informatics and Health Care on the
Internet
14. The Engaged Evolving ePatient
15. Social Networking and Other Web-Based Applications in Healthcare
Delivery and Education
16. Personal Health Records (PHRs)
17. mHealth
Unit 4: Project Management Tools and Procedures
18. Project Management Principles and Clinical Systems
19. Identifying and Selecting an Information System Solution
20. Implementing and Upgrading an Information System Solution
21. Health System Downtime and Disaster Recovery
Unit 5: Quality, Usability and Standards in Informatics
22. Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security
23. Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives in Informatics
24. Product Usability and the User Experience
25. Standards
Unit 6: Governance and Organizational Structures for Informatics
26. Informatics Governance
27. Legal Issues, Federal Regulations, and Accreditation
28. Health Policy and Informatics
Unit 7: Education and Informatics
29. Informatics in the Curriculum for Healthcare Professionals
30. Distributive Education: Applications, Techniques, and Issues
31. Information Systems and Technical Tools in Healthcare Education
32. Simulation and Virtual Reality in Healthcare Education
Unit 8: International Informatics Efforts
33. International Efforts, Issues, and Innovations
Unit 9: The Present and Future
34. Future Directions and Future Research in Health Informatics
