315.708.81 HIT STANDARDS AND SYSTEMS INTEROPERABILITY

Students learn the data, information, and knowledge standards critical to the successful implementation of local, regional, and national health-related information systems. Target competencies are to identify the appropriate level of HITSP standards for an informatics problem, and select the appropriate standard within that level; create use cases and an organizational process to define an interoperability standard for a specific healthcare/regional situation; participate in a national standards-creation process.

To understand health information exchanges (HIEs) between clinical and public/population health data systems. To understand the main categories of HIT standards. To understand the standards harmonization process. To be able to participate in the design of information systems in public health.