Free health information technology online courses now available

The DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation is pleased to introduce the Health Informatics Curriculum and Training for Transformation (HICATT). This free online informatics training course for healthcare professionals opened for registration this month.

The curriculum is funded by a grant from the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The DFWHC Foundation is a grant partner with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston – School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI) and is offering the training to North Texas healthcare providers and hospitals.

Any employed healthcare professional working in hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, accountable care organizations or other settings are eligible to participate. Students will upgrade their health informatics knowledge, improve the quality of healthcare in their communities and gain new skills to advance in their profession.

The course offers a choice of four tracks of the full curriculum, each with recorded lectures and slides, quizzes, optional activities and required course assessments. Each of the four tracks will take between 12-15 hours to complete and contain material on: population health management, value-based care purchasing, patient-centered care, health care data analytics, care coordination and interoperability of health IT systems.

The Four Training Tracks include:
• Provider – physician, physician assistant, dentist, optometrist, nurse practitioner, psychologist, pharmacist and audiologist. This track offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit and Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) credit;
• Information Technology/Information Systems (IT/IS) – analyst and clinical informatics;
• Clinical Support – nurse case management, dietitian, social worker, dental assistant, medical assistant, lab and radiographers. This track offers Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credit.
• Business Office – office manager, billing, receptionist, registration, medical records, administrator and legal.

Training Cohorts run through June 18, 2017. The last registration date is May 1, 2017. To register or for questions, please click here.

For further questions, please contact Sally Williams, HICATT Coordinator for DFWHC Foundation, at swilliams@dfwhcfoundation.org or 469-648-5030.