BSA 6210 Information Technology for Healthcare Managers

3 Hours

This course prepares graduate healthcare management students to interact with providers and IT personnel to manage information and information systems for integrated health care delivery. Topics include characteristics of health care data including standards; healthcare workflows as they relate to healthcare IT; major types of information systems in healthcare; the health care IT legislative environment; issues in health care interoperability including Health Information Exchanges; E -health and E-business in health care; the link between financial arrangements and HIT capabilities; issues of privacy, security and disaster recovery in health care, implementation and change management in health care settings including aspects of project management; and IT in the health care strategic planning process.