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:
- 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
- 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
- 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