HCIN U540 – Introduction to Health Care Information Management
Provides an overview of the health care delivery system, professional roles, care delivery models, and relevant regulatory environment in the United States. Overviews common chronic and acute disease states that drive the U.S. healthcare system to provide the student with context for care delivery models. Intended for non-clinician students or individuals who lack significant professional health care employment experience.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Compare and contrast professional health care roles and how these roles interact in healthcare systems.
- Describe quality regulatory and credentialing agencies and organizations that confer accreditation in health care.
- Articulate the relationship between care models in the context of disease management.
- Demonstrate an understanding of health care delivery models across the continuum of care.
HCIN U541 – Introduction to Healthcare Delivery Systems
Provides students withnecessary skills to understand the basis for health care informatics. Emphasizes basic understanding of computer hardware, network architecture, clinical application of electronic health records, and health care software applications. Includes relevant regulatory, patient privacy, security, and reimbursement issues. Examines current trends in meaningful use and electronic health record (EHR) certification as a foundation for understanding emerging issues in health care informatics.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Analyze concepts and principles of information acquisition, assessment, and management in a health care delivery environment.
- Compare and contrast various technology and data resources needed for retrieving, storing, analyzing, managing, and communicating information for the delivery of nursing and health care.
- Use spreadsheets, statistical and data base applications to support clinical and management decision-making and outcomes management in the clinical and health care management setting.
- Discuss the role of information technology in the development and use of knowledge.
- Demonstrate an understanding of current and emerging computer hardware and software technology
- Utilize information for decision-making and outcomes management in patient care settings.
- Critique software applications and existing health care information systems for their utility and their appropriateness to support health care practice.
- Identify potential solutions for resolution of ethical, legal, and social issues related to health care information management
- Critique strategies to secure health care information and information systems from internal and external risks and threats.
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HCIN U542 Systems Analysis and Design for Health Care Informatics
Prepares students in the planning, analysis, design, and implementation of computer-based information and technology systems. Includes systems development life cycle, project management skills, requirement analysis and specification, feasibility and cost-benefit analysis, logical and physical design, prototyping, system validation, deployment, human factors, and post-implementation review.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply skills in the design and implementation of health care computer systems.
- Apply basic analytic tools needed togenerate system conceptual designs.
- Evaluate health care informatics systems for cost effectiveness, cost benefit, and efficiency.
- Demonstrate skills in project management throughout the system development life cycle.
- Incorporate ethical perspectives in systems analysis and design.
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HCIN U543 Database Design and Knowledge Management
Provides opportunities to gain advanced skills in data and knowledge management. Addresses applied skills in database design, data structure, modeling, and development of database management systems to resolve problems in health care informatics and research settings. Also focuses on development of fundamental skills in knowledge management and knowledge engineering as applied to the health care environment. Provides an overview of national health care databases such as National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Core measures and data mining techniques. Promotes skills in accessing clinical databases to resolve selected clinical problems.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe system architecture for data processing.
- Manipulate databases with query languages.
- Locate and interpret data from multiple databases.
- Apply structured query languages to the solution of selected clinical problems.
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HCIN U544 Advanced Health Care Information Management
Provides information and skills necessary for leadership in informatics roles in health care systems. Emphasizes design, implementation, and evaluation of electronic health record systems and clinical decision support systems. Also addresses regulatory, reimbursement, ethical issues, and emerging technology in health care informatics.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Evaluate physical design, end user needs, human factors, and cost for the design and implementation of an electronic health record.
- Apply clinical decision support science to a variety of clinical uses and problems.
- Apply national and regulatory standards for meaningful use certification of electronic health records in specific clinical settings.
- Analyze emerging trends in health care technology related to interoperability across EHRs.
- Design work flow processes to ensure safe and effective work flow processes.
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HCIN U545 Residency in Health Care Informatics Capstone
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Provides an integrative field experience to synthesize and apply knowledge attained in the HCIN core courses. Includes related practices and seminar experiences that foster achievement of career goals related to health care informatics.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply skills developed through previous informatics course work, including ethical perspectives, in the health care informatics setting under the guidance of an experienced informaticist.
- Apply analysis skills to devise a solution on a health care informatics problem.
- Apply data management skills of acquisition, data modeling, and data analysis to the capstone project.
- Evaluate and disseminate the outcomes of the capstone project to key stakeholders.
