Abstract
- The healthcare industry faces the challenge of incorporating electronic medical record (EMR) systems, principles and practices into day-to-day work life for healthcare employees. The primary concern is to ensure newly-trained healthcare program graduates are proficient on EMR systems and related IT subjects. In response to the growing challenge, Virginia Highlands Community College applied for and received a 4.7 million dollar federal grant for communitybased job training called Health Information Technology Education. With this funding and based on previous research, we used Quality Function Deployment to develop curricula to meet the needs of our healthcare industry partners. Our study resulted in a taxonomy composed of nine subject areas. Each area had twelve topics, tracking information from modules to chapters down to the page.