This is a graduate level course in the management of organizations. It is run in seminar format and requires considerable reading in preparation for each class discussion. Topics include designing and building an organization, information and control, strategic planning, leadership, motivation and employee development, change management, uncertainty, conflict, ethics and social issues. Case studies illustrating the topics in health care settings are used throughout. 3 semester hours.
Emphasis is on models, their application to data and interpretation.
Students will work in project teams to develop the preliminary design of an informatics application for a fictitious organization. Database Structures and Processing. 3 semester hours. This course is an overview of the current database modeling techniques, database technologies, and database design techniques. Students will participate in a project to design, implement, and populate a database.