NIIC
National Imaging Informatics Course
Learn the fundamentals of Imaging Informatics.
Curriculum
- What is informatics?
- Why are you here?
- What will you learn?
- Housekeeping
- DICOM
- HL7 (including CDA, FHIR)
- IHE (include XDS)
- RadLex
- CPT, ICD-10, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, UMLS, etc.
- Hardware
- Software and APIs
- Networks and gateways
- Servers
- Active Directory
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Service-oriented architecture
- Cloud computing
- Archives
- DICOM
- Viewers
- Storage
- Compression
- Downtime procedures
- Data integrity & other policies
- Advanced 3-D Visualization
- Monitors, hardware, and perception
- RIS, order entry, scheduling
- Scheduling
- Modalities and modality worklist
- Exams and procedure steps
- Dictation and report generation
- Structured reporting
- Billing
- Report distribution (e.g. back to PACS/EHR/other destinations)
- Non-radiology imaging
- CDS/CPOE
- Reporting
- Critical results reporting
- Non-critical results
- Patient portals
- Implications of regulations
- Enterprise imaging
- Reading room
- Layout, ergonomics, environmental factors
- Centralized vs. decentralized
- Social media
- Layers of security, (physical, device, access, policy, network)
- How not to get hacked (phishing, DOS attacks, two factor authentication, password management)
- PHI in medical Images (how to inspect DICOM metadata, how to get rid of "burned in" data)
- Data
- Data types and locations
- "Big data"
- Data plumbing
- Validation
- Normalization
- Access
- Visualization
- Database management
- Business intelligence
- Basic image processing algorithms and methods
- Thresholding
- Morphological operations
- Segmentation
- Registration
- Natural language processing
- Introduction, capabilities, challenges
- Machine learning
- Supervised versus. unsupervised learning
- Image data versus. text data
- Statistics
- Working with vendors (RFP, vendor selection, COIs, contract process, SLAs, performance reviews, etc.)
- Revenue cycle (structured reporting, coding engines, etc.)
- Impact on regulations on informatics (e.g., MU, PAMA, HIPAA, HITECH, etc.)
- EHRs
- HIEs
- Image sharing
- Clinical informatics
- Formal certification