FUNDAMENTALS OF IIS
Hit the ground running by learning the basics of IIS.
This free, 18-day email course is intended to get you up to speed on all things IIS: what they are, how they work, and how they’re supported.
Explore the fundamentals of data exchange between IIS and other systems.
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Learn about a fundamental building block for interoperability between IIS and other systems: the HL7 standard.
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Introduces data quality dimensions and strategies for maintaining and improving data quality in an IIS.
This course is designed for providers and staff who enter data into the IIS. Providers will get an overview of the importance of IIS high-quality data and how it’s essential to making the best decisions for their patients.
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ADVANCED IIS TOPICS
Workforce development is an essential component of building an effective IIS team. This course provides a primer in building effective training to ensure an IIS team is equipped to perform optimally.escription
What does it mean to be an IIS leader? This course answers this question and provides strategies for effective leadership, from building a strong team to promoting IIS data quality from a leadership role.
This course helps IIS staff at all levels interact with their forecasting systems or functionality to enable them to better troubleshoot user questions, onboard providers, advocate for systems changes, and work with vendors.
This course explores the importance of being an effective communicator across IIS roles and how to approach and plan for key change management.
Building on the fundamentals courses, Advanced HL7 for IIS offers a deeper dive into how HL7 works. Those involved in interoperability will find this particularly useful, exploring conformance, constraints and message profiles, and will leave the course with a better understanding of how the Implementation Guide constrains the HL7 standard.
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This course provides an overview of authorized partners, both internal and external to the IIS team, who use IIS data. The course covers what all users should know before using IIS data as well as how data use is impacted by laws, regulations and policies.
ADDITIONAL COURSES
While not designed or tailored specifically for the IIS community, these other PHII-created trainings have particular relevance and usefulness to IIS teams.
Based on our popular 8-week course on Designing & Managing Public Health Information Systems, this offering is a self-paced e-learning course that introduces the eight phases of information system development, known as the IT lifecycle.
This course teaches learners to effectively identify, analyze and engage public health agency stakeholders.
This course teaches the six guiding principles of contract management within public health. The course includes access to checklists learners can use on the job to support better performance and accountability of contracted organizations.
IIS ROLE DESCRIPTION CURRICULA
PHII provides suggested curricula mapped to our 12 IIS Role Descriptions. These curricula aim to strengthen workforce training by helping IIS professionals expand or refresh their skills, knowledge and competencies. The curricula provide recommended courses that align with the required competencies for each IIS role.