Topics covered by the Digital Patient Record
Certification^TM exam

The knowledge and skills required to safely and effectively manage electronic health records cover many operational and regulatory areas which include:

Healthcare Information Systems (HIS)

• HIS defined and related to similar terms (EHR, EMR, PHR and others)
• Purposes and importance
• Advantages and occasional drawbacks
• Divisions within a HIS
• Functions and uses

Professional and legal issues with digital patient records

HIPAA

• HIPAA defined           
• Security and Privacy rules
• HealthCare workers permissible use of patient data
• Regulation of release of patient information
• Patients’ rights to review and amend their records
• HIPAA vs. state law

Principles of computer and data security

• Managing data security
• Authentication
• Types of authentication
• Password security
• Threats to confidentiality of data
• Data security basics
• Secure transmission of confidential health data
• Audit trails and their uses

Valid Record Entries

• Correcting records
• Creating a new record
• Inappropriate record entries
• Same patient, two records

Navigating within a digital patient record and across
digital patient records

• Locate and verify a patient record
• Select and view a specific report
• Patient record identifiers
• Common things one looks for in a digital patient record
• Location of common objects in a digital patient record
• Common ways to search for things in a digital patient record