HITC 1055 - Networking & Health Information Exchange

Prerequisite: Program admission; Diploma level proficiency in English, reading and math.
Corequisite: HITC 1005, HITC 1050, HITC 1075
This course examines current technologies used to share health information and the regulatory environment governing both the technologies and patient data. It presents the hardware infrastructure integral to HIT and Health Information Exchange (HIE) systems including wires, wireless, and devices supporting them, the ISO stack, standards, Internet protocols, federations, and HIT grids. It also scrutinizes the need for software certification and regulation as well as data privacy and security regulation and legislation. To that end, this course analyzes the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and other sets of data and interoperability standards, services, and policies that enable secure health information exchange. Contact hours: Class - 3, Lab - 0. Credit hours: 3 (E)

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