Definition of Health Informatics; The Potential Impacts of Health Informaticians on the Health System; AHI Versus R+D Health Informatics; Potential Roles of the Applied Health Informatician; AHI Job Functions; The Requisite Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Experience) of the AHI Professional; An Overview of the AHI Curriculum and The Diploma Program: Courses, Micro-Courses, and Their Content; The Challenges Faced by Applied Health Informaticians; Introduction to Key AHI Methods and Techniques; Structured Approaches, Formal Methods, and Best Practices; The Applied Health Informatician as a Team Leader and Facilitator; Measures of AHI Success and Failure; AHI Case Studies: Strategic Planning, Procurement, Implementation, Operations, Complement development, and Evaluation.

The Definition of Health and Health Status; The Nature and Components of the Health System; Health System Strategic Management: Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Leadership; Health System Governance, Organization and Management; Departmental Organization, Operations, and Management; The Funding and Financial Management of the Health System; The Types, Roles, Functions, and Accountabilities of Health System Professionals; Strategic Planning in Health; Decision-Making Processes and Methods in Health (Clinical, Executive, Operational); The Values and Constraints of Health System Stakeholders; Patients, Patient Issues, and Patients’ Rights; The Complexity and Heterogeneous Nature of Requirements in the Health System; Standards, Constraints, and Guidelines Affecting the Health System; Quantitative Management Models in the Health System; Management and Executive Information Systems (Including Data Warehouses); Health-Related Legislation, Regulation, and Custom; The Dynamic and Chaotic Aspects of the Health System.

Types and Structure of Clinical Information; Health Data Standards; Minimum Data Sets; Controlled Vocabularies; Terminologies/Nomenclatures; UMLS; Health Information Systems in Hospital, Clinical, Ambulatory, Office, and Community settings, etc.; Departmental Information Systems: ADT, LIS, RIS, Pharmacy, Nutrition, Health Records; Health Administration Support Systems: Financial Information Systems; HRIS; ERP Systems; Management and Executive Management Information Systems in Health; Principles and Practice of Health Data Warehousing and Analysis (OLAP); Health Data Mining; Principles and Practice of Data Collection, Development, Review, and Analysis; Principles and Practice of Information Resources Management; Computer-Based Patient Records; Clinical Data Repository; Registries; Health Information Finding and Access Techniques; Patient Interviewing, Health Status Evaluation, and Other Direct Patient-Used Systems; Clinical Trial Management Systems; Experiment Management Systems

Health Process and Product Innovation and Re-engineering; Health Process Streamlining; Process Improvement Methods (Value Chain Analysis, Rational Analysis, IT-Facilitated Process Analysis); Health Process Analysis, Documentation, Design, Planning, Implementation, Management, and Evaluation; Health CQI; TQM; Quality Assurance; Quality Management; Error Prevention and Detection; Principles and Practice of the Management of Change; Changeability/ Adaptability Assessment; Understanding and Addressing Resistance Within the Organization; The Nature and Characteristics of Business and Clinical Processes and Operations; Diffusion of Innovation Theory; Organizational Change Theory; Impacts of Systems on Operations and Work; Principles of Ergonomics and Human Factors; Understanding Stakeholder Perspectives and Issues; Understanding Example Environments.

The IT/IM Component of the Health Strategic Plan, Principles and Practice of IS Structure, Organization, Organizational Planning, and Management; Principles and Practice of Technology Planning and Management; IS Audit/Review; Principles and Practice of Project Planning; Organization, Management, and Evaluation; Principles and Practice of Human Communication and Interpersonal Interaction; Professional Presentation; Principles and Practice of Negotiation; Professional Writing; Policy and Procedure Development, Promulgation, and Management; The Nature of Consulting; Selecting and Managing Consultants; Business Continuance Planning; Crisis Management; Prioritization/ Triage Techniques; Compliance (With Standards, Best Practices, Regulation, Legislation); Risk Assessment/Analysis; Principles and Practice of IT HR Management; Facilitation; Leadership; Team Building and Co-ordination; Staff Mobilization, Involvement, and Motivation Methods; Group Management and Thinking Techniques: Nominal Group Technique, Consensus Finding Techniques, Delphi Method.

Benefits Identification and Estimation Techniques; Benefits Realization Methodologies; Costs and Benefits of IT/IM Systems and Their Supporting Infrastructure; Business Case/ Justification Analysis and Development; Cost Identification and Analysis; Costing Methodologies; Cost-Benefit Analysis; IT/IM Technology Assessment; Valuation Techniques; Business Value of IT/IM Systems (Quantitative and Qualitative Value); Basic Finance and Economics; Principles of Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation/ Assessment; Principles of Technology Assessment; Evaluation Case Studies.

Health IT/IM Needs and Requirements Definition, Analysis, and Documentation; The State of the Art and Capabilities of the IT/IM Industry; Procurement Methods (Including RFI/Q and RFP Writing, Site Visit Design and Analysis, Demo Design and Analysis); Contract Negotiation and Contract Writing; Vendor Relations; Vendor Liaison; System and Applications Acceptance Testing; User Education and Training; Interfacing and Interface Development; Implementation Planning and Implementation Management; End-User Support; Applications Software and Corrective and Adaptive Maintenance; OS and Hardware Corrective and Adaptive Maintenance; System Capacity Planning; Technology Currency Management; Service-Level Agreements; Vendor/Contractor Relations Management; Outsourcing and Outsourcing Management; Customer Relations Management; User Satisfaction and Acceptance Analysis and Management; Principles and Practice of Security Management (Physical and Logical Security); Security Systems and Tools; Security Systems Effectiveness Assessment; Privacy Legislation and Regulation.

Introduction to Computer Science; An Introduction to Database Management; Fundamentals of Intelligent Systems; Introduction to Communications; A Primer on the User Interface and Interactive Systems; Elementary System Architectures; Co-operative Information Systems Concepts; Computing Issues: Ethics, Privacy, Legal, Philosophical, Etc.