Instructional Materials - HITECH Act (Bellevue College)
This document contains a compilation of instructional resources related to HITECH Act, which may include content sources, learning activities, discussion questions, and assessment questions. These health IT materials were designed to be infused into existing Nursing, Allied Health, and IT programs.
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed as part of the economic recovery package of 2009, and authorized the investment of billions of dollars in incentives and infrastructure for healthcare. One of the major outcomes of the HITECH act was mandating meaningful use of electronic health records. These instructional resources will help clinical and general students understand how the HITECH Act impacts their work.
- Date:
- 2014
- Primary Material Type:
- Collection
- Institution:
- Bellevue College
- Project Name:
- Health eWorkforce
- Funding Source:
- TAACCCT Round 2
Industry / Occupation
- Industry Partner:
- Department of Labor
- Industry Sector:
- Health Care and Social Assistance (62)
- Occupation:
- Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations (29-0000)
Education / Instructional Information
- Credential Type:
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- Certificate
- Credential
- Stacked/Latticed Credential Model
- Associate Degree
- Educational Level of Materials:
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- 1st year Community College or equivalent
- 2nd Year Community College or equivalent
- Time Required:
- Variable
- Language:
- English (United States)
- Interactivity Type:
- Active - requires user to respond to prompts, questions, etc.
- Quality Note:
- SME Evaluation of materials after development. Evaluation checklist was adapted from the Quality Matters Higher Education Rubric. Materials identified as needing improvement were addressed by Consortium Lead wherever possible.
- Quality of Subject Matter was assured by:
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- Consultations during development of instructional materials
- Participation as an ongoing member of team developing the instructional materials
- Quality of Online/Hybrid Course Design assured by:
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- Expertise of Project's Instructional Designers
- Course Note:
- Health IT Activities for Infusion into Nursing, Allied Health or IT Programs
Accessibility
- Accessibility Features:
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- Text Access - Text to Speech
- Text Adjust - Compatible
- Text Adjustment - Adjust Font and Colors
- Reading Layout - Reflow the Text
- Reading Layout - Page numbers match printed material
- Reading Layout - Reflow the Text
- Reading Order - Digital resource layout
- Structural Markup - Navigation Text
- Structural Markup - Lists
- Structural Markup - eReader application
- Table Markup
- Hyperlinks Rendered As Active
- Colors Compatible With Assistive Technology
- Contrast Ratio of at Least 4.5:1.
- Language - Markup
- Language - Passage Markup
- Non-Decorative Images Have Alt Text
- Decorative Images Marked With Null Alt Text
- Complex Images, Charts, and Graphs Have Text Descriptions
- Synchronized Text Track
- Transcript Provided With Audio Content
- Audio/Video Delivered Via Media Player
- Non Flickering Content
- STEM Content (e.g. Mathematics, Chemistry) Markup
- STEM - Notation markup
- Interactive - Keyboard
- Interactive - Markup
- Interactive - Text prompts
Copyright / Licensing
- Copyright Owner:
- See notations in document