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Legislation impacting healthcare (e.g. HIPAA, HITECH). Be familiar with who (types of organizations and individuals) these laws apply to and what the penalties are for violating them.
1. What rights do individuals have (and not have) to access their own PHI?
2. What are the benefits and drawbacks of the use of CDSS?
3. What can healthcare data be used for besides patient care (secondary uses) and know what must be done to de-identify data.
4. Be familiar with different applications of Healthcare Informatics (e.g. Consumer informatics, Public health informatics, Population health, Genomics, Telemedicine, E-health)
5. Be able to describe the core functionality of EHR/EMR systems.
6. Know the difference between structured and unstructured data.
7. What aspects of health data does the term ePHI security apply to?
8. Understand the different health information exchange consent options.