| Health Care Informatics |
| Health Care Informatics Certificate of Proficiency |
Health Care Informatics Program
Universal health records accessible to all health care providers are expected to be implemented nationally over the next few years. Health Care Informatics (HCI) is a relatively new field of study that uses computerized solutions for health care information. It encompasses a variety of skills needed to organize, manage, and analyze health care-related information. HCI involves information technology, health information management, legal and human issues, national and international standards, governmental agencies and the monitoring of global illnesses.
Career Opportunities
Nurses, physicians, administrators, pharmacists, insurance companies, hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities involved with patient care are all involved with the development of health care information systems. Universal health records will become commonplace by 2014. The number of trained professionals is not adequate to meet this need. To accomplish the national goals for electronic health records, extensive education in health care informatics on many levels is required.
There are a number of driving forces behind the move to computerize health records, including: |
- Availability and reliability of technology
- Need to reduce health care costs
- Need to reduce medical errors and improve the quality of health care
- Drive for patient choice by enabling them to research physicians & facilities, based on criteria such as location, cost, and quality
- Need to control global epidemics which have accelerated because of the greater mobility of the world population
- New possibilities for conducting medical research based on the amount of clinical data that will become available
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Health Care Informatics Goals and Objectives
The Health Care Informatics Certificate of Proficiency has been carefully developed to give students fundamental technical skills along with a broad understanding of the health care field to implement computerized solutions for health care information. |
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| Course(s) |
Credit
Hours |
| Prerequisites to Certificate*: |
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| MC 103 |
Introduction to Personal Computers |
1 |
| MC 105 |
Creating and Formatting Documents |
1 |
| MC 107 |
Multimedia Presentations |
1 |
| Required Courses: |
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| MC 360 |
Data Analysis for Management |
3 |
| MIS 210 |
Intro to HCI for Health Care Professionals |
3 |
| MIS 310 |
Intermediate HCI |
3 |
| MIS 340 |
Systems Analysis and Design |
3 |
| PLUS any four (12 credit hours) classes listed below |
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| MIS 320 |
Web Site Development and Management |
3 |
| MIS 330 |
Network Security |
3 |
| MIS 360 |
Database Management |
3 |
| MIS 430 |
Data Mining and Knowledge Management |
3 |
| MIS 450 |
Decision Support Systems |
3 |
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Non-MIS Course — with departmental approval |
3 |
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| Total Credit Hours |
24 |
| *Prerequisite is not included in total credit hours |
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| Further details about this program can be found in the Degree Plan/Audit Sheet document. |
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