CAHIIM 2012 Curriculum Requirements – Health Informatics Master’s Degree
Instructions
A graduate program will have an emphasis in one or more of the specified facets of Health Informatics as described below (see Column 1 – Health
Informatics Master’s Degree Curriculum Facets) but to meet CAHIIM accreditation requirements all three facets and curricular components (see Column
2 – Curricular Components) must be introduced within the curriculum of a graduate program in Health Informatics. Where a program emphasizes a
specific facet, the depth of instruction for those curricular components under that facet, will be expected to be comprehensive.
To use this template for CAHIIM accreditation purposes, please document the course or courses (in Column 3) by prefix and number, that contain the
curricular components listed below for each facet. (For example: HI 520, HI 600) As stated above, depth and focus will vary depending on the emphasis
of the program’s goals and objectives.
Column 1 - Health Informatics Master’s
Degree Curriculum Facets
Column 2 - Curricular Components
Column 3 - List the Course(s) - Prefix and
Number that contain each of the curricular
components as listed in Column 2 for each
facet.
Course(s): Prefix and Number
Facet I. Information Systems –
concerned with such issues as
information systems analysis, design,
implementation, and management.
*Required courses
1. Healthcare delivery systems, organization,
governance and workflow
2. Health information systems characteristics, strengths
and limitations
3. Health information systems assessment methods and
tools
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Column 1 - Health Informatics Master’s
Degree Curriculum Facets
Column 2 - Curricular Components
Column 3 - List the Course(s) - Prefix and
Number that contain each of the curricular
components as listed in Column 2 for each
facet.
Course(s): Prefix and Number
4. Quality assessment including total quality
management, data quality, and identification of best
practices for health information systems
5. Health IT standards
6. Use of healthcare terminologies, vocabularies and
classification systems
7. Health information exchanges (HIE)
8. Electronic health records and personal health
records
9. Patient rights and associated regulations
10. Privacy and confidentiality of patient health
information
11. Information security practices
12. Management of information systems including life
cycle analysis, system design, planning methods and
tools
13. Evidence-based systems and tools ( such as PubMed,
UpToDate)
14. Workflow process re-engineering
15. Human factor engineering, work organization and
tools
16. Strategic planning
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17. Project planning and management
18. Change management
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Column 1 - Health Informatics Master’s
Degree Curriculum Facets
Column 2 - Curricular Components
Column 3 - List the Course(s) - Prefix and
Number that contain each of the curricular
components as listed in Column 2 for each
facet.
Course(s): Prefix and Number
19. Finance and budgeting and cost-benefit analysis for
information systems
20. Assessment of commercial vendor products and
software applications
21. Policy development and documentation
22. Personnel management, negotiation, communication
skills, business ethics, leadership and governance
23. Systems thinking and theory
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1. History of health informatics development and
health informatics literature
2. Medical decision-making: principles, design,
implementation
3. Development of healthcare terminologies,
vocabularies and ontologies
4. Clinical data standards theory and development
5. Clinical data and clinical process modeling (such as
UML-Unified Modeling Language, UP-Unified Process)
6. Cognitive support (i.e. clinical decision support)
7. Biomedical simulations
8. Personalized medicine
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Facet II. Informatics – concerned with
such issues as the structure, function
and transfer of information, sociotechnical aspects of health computing,
and human-computer interaction.
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Column 2 - Curricular Components
Column 1 - Health Informatics Master’s
Degree Curriculum Facets
Column 3 - List the Course(s) - Prefix and
Number that contain each of the curricular
components as listed in Column 2 for each
facet.
Course(s): Prefix and Number
9. Human-computer interface
10. Principles of health information systems data storage
design, including patient-centered
11. Principles of research and clinical literature research
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12. Natural language processing
13. Knowledge discovery (such as text and data mining)
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Facet III. Information Technology –
concerned with such issues as
computer networks, database and
systems administration, security and
programming.
Principles of computer science
Programming language(s) (such as SQL, Java)
Software applications – design, development, use
Systems testing and evaluation
System integration tools
Networking principles, methods, design
Principles of data representation
Electronic data exchange
Health Information technology: systems
architecture, database design, data warehousing
10. Technical security applications and issues
11. Information technology (IT) system documentation
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Column 1 - Health Informatics Master’s
Degree Curriculum Facets
Column 2 - Curricular Components
Column 3 - List the Course(s) - Prefix and
Number that contain each of the curricular
components as listed in Column 2 for each
facet.
Course(s): Prefix and Number
12. Business continuity and disaster recovery
13. Virtual network applications and storage (such as
cloud computing)
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IV. Additional desired course(s)
content.
Biomedical Sciences (such as medical terminology, anatomy,
physiology, pathophysiology)
Quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods
Epidemiology (public health or clinical)
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