3 credit hours. By conducting a needs assessment, designing data entry forms and reports, developing specifications, and preparing an implementation and evaluation plan, the student applies analysis concepts. Founded on basic database management concepts. 3 credit hours. Emphasis is on the history of governmental involvement in financing health care, mainly through the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Students analyze case studies and interpret clinical and financial data.
3 credit hours. An introduction to the information management techniques specific to the medical industry. Focuses on understanding and decision making in medical organizations, primarily as related to data and information systems. The student develops an understanding of different methods of developing operational priorities, problems related to human resource development and use, and other aspects of the medical industry that separate it from information management processes in industrial settings. 3 credit hours.