Syllabus

Week 1: Core Technical Foundations

Day 1: Introduction to Healthcare IT & Project Management Basics

• Overview of Healthcare IT workflows

• Introduction to healthcare interoperability

  1. How Does EHR Interoperability work?

  2. Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) explained

• Basics of project management for HL7 analysts (Agile, Waterfall, Jira, Trello)

  1. Project Management Basics

Day 2-3: Command Line Basics (Using Codecademy Free Course)

• Introduction to the Command Line

• Navigating directories, creating files, and running scripts

📌 Resource: Codecademy - Learn the Command Line (Free)

Day 4-5: Introduction to JavaScript (Using Codecademy Free Course)

• JavaScript basics: variables, functions, loops, and conditionals

• Writing simple scripts to manipulate text files

📌 Resource: Codecademy - Learn JavaScript (Free)

Week 2: Data Processing, APIs, and Batch Scripting

Day 6-7: SQL Basics (Using Codecademy Free Course)

• Basic SQL queries (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE)

• Creating and querying databases

📌 Resource: Codecademy - Learn SQL (Free)

Day 8: Introduction to APIs & Web Services

• What are APIs? REST vs. SOAP

• How APIs are used in healthcare IT

📌 Resource: Postman - Learn API Fundamentals (Free)

Day 9-10: Batch Scripting Basics

• Writing and running batch scripts

• Automating tasks using scripts

📌 Resource: Free Batch Scripting Guide

Day 11-12: Hands-on Mini Projects

• Creating a basic API request

• Writing a batch script to process files

• Running a SQL query on a sample database

Day 13: Review & Quiz

• Recap of all topics covered

• Quiz to test knowledge

Day 14: Wrap-Up & Transition to HL7 Bootcamp

• Final Q&A session

• Preparing for the next six weeks of HL7 training