Healthcare organization, systems and workflow
Health information systems characteristics, strengths and limitations
Health information systems assessment methods and tools
Quality assessment including total quality management, data quality, and identification of best practices for health information systems
Health IT standards
Use of healthcare terminologies, vocabularies and classification systems
Health information exchanges (HIE)
Electronic health records and personal health records
Patient rights and HIPAA
Privacy and confidentiality of patient health information
Information security practices
Management of information systems including life cycle analysis, system design, planning methods and tools
Knowledge management systems
Workflow process re-engineering
Professional ethics and professional business etiquette
Strategic planning
Finance and budgeting and cost-benefit analysis for information systems
Assessment of commercial vendor products and software applications
Policy development and documentation
History of health informatics development and health informatics literature
Medical decision-making: principles, design, implementation
Development of healthcare terminologies, vocabularies and ontologies
Clinical data standards theory and development
Clinical data and clinical process modeling (such as UML-Unified Modeling Language, UP-Unified Process)
Artificial intelligence
Biomedical simulations
Computer science theory and methods
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 systems architecture, database design, data warehousing
Technical security applications and issues
IT system documentation
Business continuity and disaster recovery
Biomedical Sciences (such as medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology)