Certification Paths:
Applied Health Information Technology
Many national healthcare leaders have speculated that a new workforce crisis is emerging. This crisis will impact the Presidential mandate to employ needed health information technologies (HIT) in healthcare delivery systems across the country in the coming years.
As the U.S. healthcare industry begins to convert antiquated paper record systems to modern information technology systems, it lacks a comprehensive plan to educate a comprehensive HIT workforce that will support this transformation. As a result, the ability to hire HIT professionals may become a serious limiting factor in the adoption and implementation of electronic health records (EHR) and other health information technologies.
Meeting the increasing demands will require responses from both the U.S. health care industry and institutions of higher education. According to the National Coordinator for Health IT at the DHHS ñ an expected 50,000 skilled HIT practitioners will be needed to meet the market demands. These programs are designed to address the need for the skilled HIT workforce of tomorrow.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is offering a limited number of $10,000 tuition supplements to Johns Hopkins Informatics Certificate students in all 3 programs, provided the training is completed in 12 months.
Applied Health InformaticsSponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of NursingThe program will provide an overview of the field, facilitate understanding of current issues and developments in the field, and relate user needs to IT possibilities. Individuals who complete the program will gain a significant degree of competency that will allow them to perform clinical and management functions with a higher degree of effectiveness within the increasingly digital healthcare industry. This program will help equip students to move into leadership positions into HIT-enabled environments wherever they go.
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Clinical InformaticsSponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Upon completion of the program, students will be able to support or lead development of strategic direction for health information within the clinical enterprise; participate in or lead development of clinical knowledge management tools; support or lead the health IT systems development, procurement, and implementation process; support or lead evaluation of health information systems and applications; represent the enterprise's interest in the national health IT debates, and particularizes that debate to meet local needs.
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Public Health InformaticsSponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Public HealthIndividuals who complete the Certificate in Public Health Informatics will gain a significant degree of competency in the area of health informatics within the public health context. It will allow them to perform management, policy and research functions with a higher degree of effectiveness within the increasingly digital organizational / system environment. This Certificate will help equip students to move into leadership positions in the public health / population health informatics domain within the US and other nations.
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