Competency 2 - Medicine, Health and Biosciences, Health System Organisation This section identifies for each specialisation the additional competencies, or higher levels of existing competencies required. Id Description of competency Level of competency Core for Health Professional Core Health Informatician Technical HI Specialist HI Clinical HI HIM Clinical Terminologist 2.1 Fundamentals of human functioning and biosciences (anatomy, physiology, microbiology, genomics, and clinical disciplines such as internal medicine, surgery) Already present 1 1 2 6 3 3 2.2 Fundamentals of what constitutes health, from physiological, sociological, psychological, nutritional, emotional, environmental, cultural, spiritual perspectives and its assessment Already Present 1 1 2 6 3 3 2.3 Principles of medical decision making and diagnostic and therapeutic strategies Already Present 1 1 3 6 3 2.4 The Australian Health System , inter-organisational aspects and shared care Already Present 2 2 3 3 Already present 3 2.5 Policy and regulatory frameworks for information handling in healthcare Already present 2 2 2 5 5 2.6 Principles of evidence-based clinical practice Already present 3 3 3 Already present 3 2.7 Health administration, health economics, health quality management and resource management, patient safety initiatives, public health services and outcome measurement 2 3 3 2.8 Quality assessment and performance in healthcare 2 3 3 2.9 Accreditation and Standards 2 3 4
Competency 3 - Informatics/Computer Sciences, Mathematics, Biometry Id Description of competency Level of competency Core for Health Professional Core Health Informatician Technical HI Specialist HI Clinical HI HIM Clinical Terminologist 3.1 informatics terminology, including data, information, knowledge, hardware, software, computer networks, information systems, information systems management 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 3.2 Ability to use personal computers, text processing and spreadsheet software, easy to use database management systems 3 3 3.3 Ability to communicate electronically, including electronic data exchange, with other health care professionals, internet/intranet use 3 3 3.4 Methods of practical informatics/computer science, especially on programming languages, software engineering, data structures, database management systems, information and system modelling tools, information systems theory and practice, knowledge engineering, (concept) representation and acquisition, software architectures 1 3 5 5 4 4 3.5 Methods of theoretical informatics/computer science e.g. complexity theory, encryption/security 2 5 3.6 Methods of technical informatics/computer science, e.g. network architectures and topologies, telecommunications, wireless technology, virtual reality, multimedia 1 2 4 3 3 3.7 Methods of interfacing and integration of information system components in healthcare, interfacing standards, dealing with multiple patient identifiers 1 3 5 4 3.8 Handling of information system lifecycle: analysis, requirement specification, implementation and /or selection of information systems, risk management, user training. 2 4 3.9 Methods of project management and change management (i.e. project planning, resource management, team management, conflict management, collaboration and motivation, change theories, change strategies). 1 4