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Certificate of Informatics in Health Information Security
Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Informatics in Health Information Security program will be qualified to serve as institutional/organizational information privacy or security officers:

  1. Understanding Technology and Methodologies for Processing Information in Healthcare:
    • Explain concepts of information and communication technologies
    • Analyze network service management (i.e. DNS/DHCP, web, email, spam filtering, resource sharing, database, directory services and authentication), network communication and security (i.e. network devices, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and incident response/forensics), and administration (i.e. shell scripting, documentation/request management, policy and procedure management, data center considerations, and virtualization)
    • Implement standards and terminologies for maintaining privacy and security of protected health information
  2. Information Literacy for Healthcare:
    • Determine the nature and extent of the privacy and security needed to protect health information
    • Propose infrastructure needed to safeguard protected health information effectively and efficiently
    • Evaluate administrative, technical and physical safeguards critically
    • Access privacy and security regulations for healthcare information transactions including policy, procedures, guidelines, security architectures, risk assessments, disaster recovery, and business continuity; particular attention given to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act
  3. Information Management:
    • Verbalize the importance of health information exchange to healthcare outcomes
    • Have knowledge of various types of health information exchange services
    • Assure confidentiality of protected patient health information when using health information exchange
    • Assure access control in the use of health information exchange
    • Assure the security of health information exchange
    • Possess the skills as outlined in supportive functions component of the HL7 model applicable to health information exchange
    • Understand the principles upon which organizational and professional health information systems for providers and consumers are based


      Last update: 02/04/2014