Electronic Medical Record System (EMRS) / Information Assurance Certification Accreditation Program (IACAP)

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Program Description:

River Valley Community College, in association with Program Development in Cybersecurity with Focus on Business and Healthcare Concepts, has developed a 4-semester program to prepare students to working the Information Assurance (IA) field with a focus on Cybersecurity and Healthcare IT. Courses are intended to prepare students for assuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of IT systems and networks in healthcare settings, where scheduling, storage of images, filling prescriptions, billing and more are handled and stored using information technology.

Course Description:

This Course from River Valley Community College center focuses on Electronic Medical Record System (EMRS) and the Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (IACAP), and asks students to consider how electronic medical records data is stored by software, how to assess entire healthcare IT systems, and how to ensure that systems are hardened against attack, while still meeting industry accreditation and certification standards. In completing the course, students will be able to: 1) Identify the components of the Electronic Medical Record System (EMRS) and how they integrate into the computer network, 2) Install, patch, update and upgrade and EMRS, 3) Manage users within the EMRS, 4) Manage roles and responsibilities within the EMRS, 5) Input data into the EMRS, 6) Create reports and track anonymous patient data, 7) Provide end user support with using the EMRS, 8) Evaluate a Healthcare organization’s Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (IACAP) posture, 9) Implement a phased approach in conducting IACAP 10) Understand and evaluate the roles and responsibilities of a Healthcare organization in their IACAP program, and 11) Provide a comprehensive IACAP report identifying security vulnerabilities and providing baseline corrective actions.

Resources available as part of this course include a course outline and a syllabus from the Spring 2015 iteration of the course.

For orientation purposes, viewers should begin with CYBS 200R EMRS-IACAP,pdf, which offers a description of the course as well as an overview of topics covered through a course outline.

Course Contents:

The 2-page Course Outline document includes a course description, course competencies, course topics outline, learning and instructional methods for the course, and performance evaluation information.

The 7-page syllabus document includes a course introduction and description, information on required materials, learning objectives, overview of course structure and policies, course structure and content in the form of a table, and information on assessment and grading of the course.

Below is a list of the files attached. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

Electronic Medical Records Systems & Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (2 files)