Principles and methods of programming, report generation tool; principles and techniques of data communications between hospital application systems; systems and procedures analysis; electronic data processing and relational principles, techniques and capabilities, including office automation, mini and personal computers; principles of healthcare organizations and management; hospital information system applications and capabilities; patient processing and clinical systems; statistical gathering, processing and reporting; healthcare coding methodologies and billing practices; hospital/healthcare financial services processes and procedures; hospital or clinic based patient accounting, payroll, patient processing and medical records processes and procedures, principles of project management. Provides hospital-based data Clinical Support Systems expertise to address information needs relevant to hospital management and physicians to develop complex reports and databases through decision support applications and applets, report writing tools, spreadsheet software, statistical reporting tools, database systems and user training.