Title: Identify components of health IT systems’ ancillary services.
Course: Health Informatics (14157-I) > Section: Working with Health IT Systems

Identification should include types of health IT applications, such as

- electronic medication administration record (e-Mar)
- provider order entry (POE)
- picture archiving and communications system (PACS)
- admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT), or death protocols
- lab (orders and results)
- registries (e.g., organ transplant, tumor)
- research (e.g., clinical trials, medication, or protocols)
- billing/coding

within healthcare settings such as

- acute care
- community health
- public health
- small-provider practices.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is an e-Mar, and how is it used?
- What is a POE, and how is it used?
- What is PACS, and how is it used?
- What are the ADT protocols?
- How are orders and results processed in an EMR?
- Where are health registries maintained?
- Who is responsible for clinical research?
- How is billing and coding used in different healthcare settings?