Towards the Creation of a Novel Career-Based Health Informatics (HI) Curriculum Assessment: Mapping HI Job Competencies to HI Curriculum Competencies

Abstract

In order to best determine what competencies and skills are required for various careers in Health Informatics (HI) and create appropriately matched academic curricula accreditation recommendations, it is important to inventory current HI industry job requirements and posted curricula outcomes with respect to existing curriculum assessment frameworks. For this study, a Clinical Informatics-related career competency list as published by the American Nursing Association (ANA) [l] is used as a guiding framework to establish the competencies required in HI-related careers. The Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM), in conjunction with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), furthermore, have created a list of seven knowledge domains and skills relevant to HI curricula. [2] Anderson & Krathwohl [3] performed a review and revision of Bloom's classical taxonomy [4] of learning; it is thus possible to utilize the taxonomy's revision in tandem with the CAHIIM-AMIA knowledge domain to better merge concepts from academic education competencies with those required by real world HI-related careers.